You run the risk of embarrassing your neighbours, sometimes so much that they’ll be in denial. Sorry this is so long but after all that does anyone know if there is anything I can do to tell them to get stuffed? Yapping fluffy white things 24/7, horrendious music, singing, instruments and best of all, domestic arguments in another language and accompaning sounds that make you wonder where they’re going to dump the body. There is also s61 of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 – which makes it an offence to cause a nuisance, or knowingly allow or suffer a nuisance to exist on, or emanate from, any land owned or occupied by that person. In my experience some of my neighbours I have asked them to turn down loud music and they say yes and do it at that time. Hubby picks up G’s stereo throws it in the bath along with all the CDs and storms out… G & M come downstairs to Hubby holding a samurai sword… They apologised and it never happened again… Lol. Without that the Council/Police won’t do anything (except as it turns out, send mail care of no one to the block’s street address) – even with photos identifying the apartment. If the noise is more than 5dB above background, then an offence is almost certain. I have neighbours (who own their unit) upstairs who, when renovating, removed the insulation from the gap between my ceiling and their floor – this was in my bedroom area. communicating with your Wi-FI network’s SSID, hijack your neighbour’s speakers to force them to be quiet, http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/noise/neighbourhoodnoise.htm. The last pick-up of rubbish was on January 26 and bags were piled up until early March. Four neighbours in a Leicester street are celebrating today after winning £1,000 each on the People's Postcode Lottery. In Australia you’ll probably find the complaint needs to be referred to the body corporate via your strata manager. In the video, she said: "I am being bin-shamed.". Apparently his lease is up in a month or two, So as I sit here and read this post I am counting down the days!! I’d love to be able to knock on the doors of my noisy neighbours above and below, but I can’t. And practiced next to the fence. Not necessarily. I have just recently moved into an apartment unit in Adelaide. I then pop 4 different cd’s into my stereo and set it on repeat. I have been woken up numerous times by neighbors angrily muttering below me whom are apparently hearing something and assuming every time that I am up at these odd hours making this intolerable noise – at one point suggesting to her partner that they call the cops on me (I think this was just a scare tactic, because said it really loud, as if she just wanted me to feel threatened and stop…but all I was doing was sleeping at the time). some peoples pay thosands of dollars for a nice sound systems and its there right to enjoy what they work hard for, i got a nice systems in my ride 13000 watt sony head unit pyle amps and kicker woofers sub inclusure with 2×19 21 speakers totel in my 06 charger r/tHEMI that realy drawed lots of attentieon, i get thumbs up peoples saying it sounds badass, noone needs to get all pissy cause peoples like nice tunes and thumpin bass, my chargerHEMI will blow away anyones cars with speed style and sound, 0to60 4.6 secnds qtrmiles 11at 114mph will top out 151mph on hiway280 late night, “… its there right to enjoy what they work hard for”. I told the officers that I was concerned about retaliation if my neighbor found out I was the one who alerted the police. The neighbours above choose to watch action movies at maximum volume using their surround sound system at 2am. One of our favourite tips of all time is communicating with your Wi-FI network’s SSID. That means giving your Wi-Fi network a name like “BeQuietApartment1121” or “TurnDownYourMusic” so that neighbours will see your message when they’re looking to get online. But continue to turn it up loud, so it doesn’t matter how many times I ask they just keep doing it. While that conversation may be inevitable, sometimes you can solve the problem without going too far. They wanted to know why I just didn’t call the police regarding my neighbor’s loud music. In an older apartment with unusually thick walls (but a very thin door) I used to get visitors who’d want to come in and listen or play along. It turns out that there were several complaints from other tenants about loud bass. To complain about the council, go to the Local Government and … I had problems with my old neighbours last year. i tired to communicate with him but he just laughs. Coming into summer I’m sure it’ll happen more and more, so it might be time for me to email the agent (I’m renting). Says the self-proclaimed hero (who is usually full of BS). People are allowed to make noise during the day, and even during the evening. And if you want to party at 12 in the morning, go to the freaking pub. This situation was essentially left unresolved because 1) the person who filed the complaint was asking for what the police deemed an unreasonably low noise level, and 2) I would have been happy to work out a compromise with the complainant if they’d simply bothered to come talk to me. Stumbled across this post when trying to find some way to complain about my neighbor. The noise keeps me up to after mid-night and then awake again at 6am. I hear a knock at my front door and it was two police officers. You may have a point, however if they are as you say truly clueless, that is still an indictment on their ability to feel for and understand those that are around them! Two wheelie bins is not enough.". When you move into an apartment it’s good to ask about the noise policies and when quiet hours are expected. Stacey Solomon says she's been "bin-shamed" by neighbours (Image: Instagram). A note or a polite conversation is wise…being petulant or obnoxiously retaliatory will only make the situation worse. How the hell do you deal with this? Neighbours had to be evacuated after a van was deliberately set on fire outside shops. I have had a neighbor get angry with me because they could hear the rustling of my sheets when I changed sleeping positions (not realizing that I too could hear them moving around in bed, the only difference being that I had enough decency to not force them to lay motionless). Which does work, given you choose your ammunition carefully. And if they don’t listen to reason, then get the management involved. The officers looked at me with skepticism and told me that it isn’t wise to challenge other neighbors. Whether you're a buyer, seller or voyeur, the web's a goldmine of info to find out anything you want about any property. The government link is a bunch of info, but not really that useful. That night my neighbor was blasting techno again, so I took my bass amp and faced the speaker side downward so that it would be firing into my wood floor and into my neighbors ceiling.