[Closed] Noisy student neighbours ?

Have a chat, if that doesn't work set up a garden sprinkler/area denial device.

Council probably, you'll need to log the incidents of noise nuisance.

If they've just moved in, it'll probably calm down soon enough.

Students moving in at this time of year will possibly be the ones with lots of resits. Good luck. 😀

Go over, have a chat over a beer with them and explain the situation. If nobody tells them , they'll keep doing it.
You'll probably find they'll shut up at an agreed time if you ask them.

If it doesn't calm down, there is normally a community link person at the uni that can have a chat with them

Angle grinder, old oil drum at 0600 after the party, either that or a router on a particularly knotty bit of hard wood.

Go round have a chat introduce yourself,smile a lot, invite them round to your garden for a bq, and some drinks, thyell really appreciate you taking an intrest in them

Wasn't this a film recently.
Casually ask what uni then speak to the admin office.

I was that annoying kid years ago. We rented a house in a residential area during the early 90's and used to play hiphop/rave music, not particularly loud but must have been annoying. We were not really in tune with the families around us but when they complained we 'got it' and pegged it back.

Eventually we realised that we had to be a bit more considerate and we kept it down.

We did not object to being told that we were being anti-social, your students may be the same.

Have a friendly chat, you may be surprised at how receptive they are. If that fails, get a massive speaker stack and crank the bass up....!

Weird that you already seem to be considering the likelihood that the first move, which is the correct one, may not be successful. I suppose it's an entirely reasonable view, but try not to let it influence your behaviour during the initial chat.

When exploding aerosols up a piece of drainpipe from the BBQ (imagine a mortar) at about 2am, the lady two doors down leaned out of the window and told us to "shut up I'm trying to get to sleep!!"... We did, we just had to be asked.

buy yourself a nice air rifle sit in a upstairs window at two in the morning when their playing up and shoot them ! hours of endless fun 😆

We had this a few years back. The council will ultimately need to record the noise in order to "quantify"
It as a nuisance , which is particularly hard to do with transient noise such as voices. It's much easier with music or industrial noise.

We ended up reporting our neighbours to their Uni who were actually very good. Things escalated to the point where the Uni asked me if I wanted them to be suspended from their courses. I had a moment of being too soft and actually said a final warning would do. Thankfully we moved not long afterwards..

But yep - Uni is probably the most effective solution but be warned, it may take a while. Obviously try talking to them calmly and rationally first!

Have a chat

If you have to have a 2nd chat, warn them the next chat will be when you have to get up for work. And any subsequent time they keep you up, you get them up...

Doesn't take many 6:30am knocks on the door to sink in. (Just cross your fingers and hope they don't retaliate in another manner)

At this time of year, it may not be students?

I know from my old days that student houses used to get rented out in the summer to anyone til the students came back, if its a "uni" owned house.

My dad had this problem once. When the chat with the students didn't work he called the landlord the next time he was woken - at 230am.

He politely told the landlord that he would advise of any noise nuisance the moment it happened.

It all quietened down pretty quickly after that.

Having lived in Southsea for 6 years, where Portsmouth uni students were living en masse, I'd say it goes with the territory. Living in a university town has its pro's and con's. If it's not this lot making a noise at all hours being young, energetic and exuberant, it'll be another lot next year or next term.

You could indeed go around and be nice and chatty and it may have some effect, just expect to need to do this every time a new batch moves in.

Alternatives are: suck it up, join in or move.

No longer live in Southsea, not because of the students, but because it's a city and not the countryside idyll that we now enjoy 8)

Talk to them first.
Then find the name / address of house owner via Land Registry.
Every time you are kept wake at 2am, call owner and let them know about the noise (sorry to wake you up but..)

This was very effective for a mate of mine..

Talk to them. Seriously. Do it during the day rather than at 3am when they're pissed and you're pissed off.

Don't go in all guns blazing, just ask nicely, they're probably oblivious. Maybe take a slab of cheap beer as a "hi, I'm your neighbour" peace offering. In my experience, students generally are simply party animals rather than thugs. They're kids who've got their independence for the first time, not needle-exchange 30-somethings who don't give a **** about anything but their next score.

Any other course of action - talking to the Uni / council / landlord - will just turn you into "that grumpy prick next door" rather than "that cool guy who brought us beer" and you can look forward to them being 'accidentally' noisy for the next four years.

Failing that of course, have you considered ear plugs? (-:

Or closing your windows on that side of the house?

Get them back by becoming another faceless profiteering buy-to-let landlord.

Wasn't this a film recently.

I'd contact the Uni, a letter from the Uni normally scares them more than a letter from anyone else and letting agents are generally complete and utter you know whats to students and I wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy.

I'm half smiling and half cringing at some of the things mentioned here remembering my students days. We used to have a firing range set up in our garden in one house and the targets ranged from old frying pans (made a great "ping") to mini lynx cans hidden in gnomes and surrounded by a ring of burning paper so when the pellet pieced the can it shot off somewhere. I remember once in summer coming back to find a load of complaints from our neighbours about "the blonde one" urinating out of our living room window onto the street. He had gone away so it was up to me to go round the neighbours and apologise, the worst part is that outside of our living room window was a grill with a light well down to our kitchen window...

We used to get shouted at by the local old biddy for playing house games of Unreal Tournament on our network (ahh the days of the first thing I did to a student house was install a cat 5 network to all the rooms) with the windows open.

I'd like to say the neighbour annoying parties died down when we bought our own houses as post grads but nope.

I'd agree with the above that they may just not realise how inconsiderate they are being though. They will just need a reminder from the Uni to calm down. the Uni may not have their addresses/names on file yet though if they have just moved in but they can always find the agent and go that way if the first one doesnt work.

Speak to the letting agent/landlord. There is probably something in their contract about noise. Some of the students i teach were on a last warning from their landlord after complaints from neighbours.

Buy them a dog, wait a few weeks so they are attached to it. Then bum the hell out of it.

Cougar has this one nail on head.

They have just spent 6 weeks doing exams, it's July, quite warm, and they are taking advantage of the cheap boxes of Carlsberg from your local Co-op. Socialising and doing all things that young people should be. Frankly it sounds like fun. Those in the thread suggesting contacting the council or police will be delighted to know that this is what your children do/will do when they're at uni 🙂

Have a friendly chat, you may be surprised at how receptive they are. If that fails, get a massive speaker stack and crank the [s]bass [/s] classical music up....!

FTFY. Seriously, just talk to them. Most students are decent young people who may not have acquired the social thoughtfulness. And if they are waiting for their exam results, take beer.