Thread: Noise Complaints From A Neighbour

Originally Posted by kekemo

Gosh isn't it sole distroying...just want to tell them to get a life....
One (wife) of the neighbour I have here..complained when my dog got old...she whined in her sleep...so I arranged to get her put down....two days after the deed ( puting dog down) she complained again....( mmm....wonder how I couldn't hear her anymore, & she could) anyway I let it ride, so next time out I waved but they completely ignored me....funny I though...so tried again a few days later...so I kind of got the message they didn't want to be friendly.....So, now I leave a little earlier for work... hey my new criuser has the reversing beeper....I used to try to be quiet when I leave at 4am....NOT anymore....usually even take the rubbish out now at midnight....put the roller door up for that too....but hey....oh...I didn' t pull my head lights on before either because I was worried it might wake them when I backed out....now the spotlights stay on ......didn't do them anygood at all did it....especially when my husband was alive he connect their front retic up from our bore...guess whats coming off next week. I have always liked to be considerate...but not once have they asked, could they do anything for me since Ed has passed away...they were always getting Ed to do little jobs here & there....appriciation I though would have keep them friendly, ...well...no...doesn't always work...so bugger them...they can paid for water from now on from the mains!!!
Cheers
KEKEMO

This is how wars start.

Somebody once told me that noise is sounds that other people make. How true.

We were told by the police here, that there is no real laws about noise in Queensland but, if you do something that annoys somebody else, then it is NOISE.

Noisy one wrote:

Dont worry, I wont be giving in to nobody, Ill check with council, maybe I could run the lawnmower while im sawing/routing to cover up the noise?????????

The E.P.A states that Power Tools(including lawnmowers) can operate 7am-7pm Mon - Sat and 8am - ?(not sure) on Sundays. I will check with the Council, I put some reading material from the E.P.A in my neighbours mailbox.

To some people with sensitive hearing the whine of woodworking tools can drive them insane.
Instead of seeming to be obnoxious, why not go over and have a friendly chat with them and come to some arrangement?
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
Wolffie

Hey... the neighbour complained when the dog was alive...and then she complained when the dog was dead....

What do you do....?
go on with life...and don't worry about them....I say...now...I don't try to be quiet...just do what I do....and if that now means not being thoughtful...I don't think it matters....now one else worried....only the neighbour who can hear a dead dog....???? I don't & didn't break any laws...but why be thoughful to others who don't give two hoots...my time for worrying is over...I don't have to give them free water...if they don't care to wave!!! Would you?
Kekemo

Originally Posted by Wolffie

Instead of seeming to be obnoxious, why not go over and have a friendly chat with them and come to some arrangement?
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
Wolffie

For a second there I thought I was the only one going down this path How many of you would really rather tell your neighbour to bugger off... in person? You couldn't face them again! Who really wan't to be partly to a dispute with somone living only 20 metres away... honestly?

You can be my neighbour Wolfie

Originally Posted by kekemo

Hey... the neighbour complained when the dog was alive...and then she complained when the dog was dead....

What do you do....?
go on with life...and don't worry about them....I say...now...I don't try to be quiet...just do what I do....and if that now means not being thoughtful...I don't think it matters....now one else worried....only the neighbour who can hear a dead dog....???? I don't & didn't break any laws...but why be thoughful to others who don't give two hoots...my time for worrying is over...I don't have to give them free water...if they don't care to wave!!! Would you?
Kekemo

Chances are that somebody else's dog was whining and because yours used to do it, she presumed it was the same dog.
Why not just go and tell the woman that it could not be your dog as it was now deceased? She would more than likely have apologised.
I would say that it is not so much that you waved at them but the way it was perceived that you did it.
A smile can look as a smirk to someone else.
I believe in treating others the way I would like to be treated, if they don't, that is their funeral not mine. I do like to be able to look myself in the eye the mirror every night without looking away because I have deliberately behaved badly.
I had VERY bad neighbours until about 12 months ago when we had a long chat about what we didn't like about each other. e.g I detest foul language and theirs was BAD and they were VERY noisy.
We agreed that if they bothered me I would say "I heard that" and they would realise they went too far and in return I would stop being angry and scowl at them every time I saw them.
I would not say we get on like a house of fire but the mutual respect agreement works.
Thankfully they love the things I make with my woodworking machines and I have done them a few favours.
Wolffie

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Buy a jointer and/or thicknesser to give the mongrels something real to complain about.

I can attest to that, we used to live on 60 acres and the people across the valley about 1 km away sometimes made mention of the noise from my (spare) elcheapo thicknesser, only used when I'd forgotten to sharpen the blades on the 15".

Fortunatly it was all very light hearted. particularly as I was refitting their kitchen at the time

Neighbors are a worry, I love the comment that Mick Dundee made in Crocodile Dundee, when he first saw New York. It went something like "these people must really like one another to want to live so close together" how far from the truth..............

Cheers


Dave

IMO outside is unreasonable in an urban setting.

Why not use it inside with the door shut. Also I think someone, sturdee ??? perhaps, built a ply box to shut it up a bit.

Looks like Dai Sensai has the only good neighbors.

If it will help I can always lease out Weizy and his chain saw slab demo.

Just think, for those at Neil's Woodie B B Que , We really did not try to make too much noise. But, just think what we could do if we tried.

I do not think neil will have a Woodies B B Que for a while so when it is the Gold Coast's turn we will have to move on to another neighborhood.

ps.

A leopard does not change his spots only his watering hole.

i find a chat over the fence with a beer or a cuppa tends to help .but if they disagree go hell for leather till the council puts there head in .just make sure you have read the planing laws and listen to everyone on this forrum who's had the same prob. some people need to complain about something (it must do something for them)

I haven't had any complaints from my neighbors..I am friends with them and give them some of the things I make.
But I sold the Triton gear with the screaming 9 1/2 inch saw and bought one with an induction motor
I also use the table saw with a dado blade where I can to stop using the screaming router
I keep all the gear in the garage with the quietest at the front and thicknesser at the back
Don't put the gear outside the garage and keep the door closed.
I knew of a bloke that when the neighbors complained about noise he would tie his lawnmower up to the rotary clothes line and run it flat out until it seized
les

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Buy a jointer and/or thicknesser to give the mongrels something real to complain about.

nothing noisier than a 15" thicknesser and dusty running at the same time. One neighbour loves it - really, the other two haven't said boo - one of them might be inclined to, the other couldn't give a hoot.

Gotta love noise

On any given weekend there's generally some machinery in a shed being fired up in the local area. Blokes and their sheds

I've made a big effort to minimize noise, and only do anything outside as a last resort, but having said that I don't see why the hours mentioned should be a problem. We have a neighbour two doors up who fires up power tools every now and again outside in the backyard, and you strain to hear them even in our own backyard. Yet there is someone a few houses away, and I have no idea exactly where, that fires up what is probably a thicknesser and the sound really travels up towards us and is very audible in the house. It is not an issue to us but it most annoy those closer.

As a slight variation to the other posts I'd suggest you might consider that the sound may travel a bit more than you realise. Years ago we used to fire up anything including a Triton and all outside and never got a complaint, never realised how lucky I was at the time to have decent neighbours.

My neighbours as angels where it comes to me and noise. Never once a complaint, despite the fact that many-a-time it would have been deserved - runnin' a Triton as late as 10pm a couple of times to get a job done. Fully expected someone to say something but nope. Have asked them a few times if the noise is noticeable and / or a problem, and they always wonder what noise am I talking about?!!

This is a Triton in a tin shed - you know when that bugger is fired up!

Knock on wood that mine keep being so obliging.

I was surprised when a bunch of my neighbors came over en masse
to ask politely if I could start making noise a little later than 4 am
in the morning,
the first surprise was they had waited so long before approaching me,
the second was that my shed is in an industrial area and I had no idea
how many people lived in their sheds,
I apologised profusely (there being no reason to make noise that early)
they apologised for making the complaint (council regs probably wouldn't allow them to live there) ( oh yeah and I'm 6'7" and 120 kg)

I still start very early, but I don't do noise till 7.30am
and I'm part of a thriving community who keep an eye on the place when I'm not there, and drop in for cuppas and a chat when I am

Oh yeah, and the biggest bonus, I now have access to shed loads of others equiptment ,tools and toys.

or I could have insisted on my right to make noise whenever I damn well pleased

Why dont you ask a few of your neighbours if they would like you to make something for them. Get on their good side and show of your talents.