Neighbours, who needs them

[momo]

This morning after I got up, I went out into my "workroom" and I started up my table saw to rip a bit of pine, within 30 seconds the wall was being banged in the front room and the shouts of "turn that *****ing thing off or I'm reporting you to the council" uh huh I thought, well as my room is on the opposite side of the house I don't think its that loud, but ho hum, okey dokey, lets try this for size, switched on the router and then the jointer :lol: and spun some planks over it just to make a bit more noise, I wouldn't do this normaly but the bloke next door is 65 ish and the best way to describe him is well, erm, Uriah Heep mixed with scrooge and a good dose of old lecher mixed in. He will run his petrol lawn mower up and deliberately leave it outside our window on near full tilt for fun and then sit in his front garden staring through our windows making finger gestures.

Anyway a bit later up turned Mr Plod telling me that I was going to be in trouble if I didn't stop using my saw and power tools, I was stood there holding a Mac Allister 18V saw by then so I looked down and said " are you serious, this thing ! " and he said that according to our neighbour I was using every known power tool to man, and ww3 was erupting. The plod left bemused.

Don't you just hate whining neighbours who do it to annoy for no reason other than to cause trouble, mines been at it for 8 years now one way or another. Oh and no I dont bait him or such normally, I tend not to use my tools for the sake of an easy life.

rant over, sorry.

 

[exigetastic]

Hmm don't get me started, I have a feeling I'm in for a right good argument with the next door neighbours. I had a delivery last week, a bit later the neighbour came round spitting feathers. The driver had managed to drive over the grass on the edge of the lawn, and created a small gouge in the grass. You would have thought the sky had collapsed :roll:

Yesterday he had the manager of Travis Perkins round inspecting the "damage". Anyway they ended up strolling onto our property and started measuring the tyres on our cars without asking. Good job I was at work, the wife was none to pleased though!

Si

 

[christoph clark]

"I don't believe it!"

 

[momo]

Both of those replies hits the spot, mind you this guy also drinks like a fish ( whisky as well and a bottle a day minimum, he's the talk of the village there) and drives and gets away with it all the time, mind you he keeps denting his cars so hpefully it wont be long before he dents himself without hurting others.

He kept asking my wife recentley to show him what she had until I pulled him over the fence whilst holding a large lathe chisel and told him his fortune one day, then she told him he couldn't manage her even if he had 3 viagra, a steel insert and a spine board to help him.

 

[chunkolini]

There is a solution to this type of neighbour.

Invite him round for a meal, offer him a cup of tea or a glass of cider, and have a nice friendly chat.

Before doing this spike his drink for him with a powerful sedative. Then take him into the workshop or should I call it the 'playroom' and do what needs to be done.

Chunko'.

My good friend Dr Lecter taught me this way of dealing with troublesome neighbours during one of my stays at the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane

 

[chippy1970]

When I built my workshop the miserable Scotish git next door (no offence to Scots) moaned one day when I was nailing the cladding on the inside with my compressor. He said if I was going to start working from home he would grass me up to the council.

Its ok for him to have his cowboy mates come around and kango his drive up early in the morning.

He has never moaned since but I never use noisy stuff after 5pm.

 

[momo]

Actually I am beginning to wonder if it was a good idea coming in here now, I had things tightened down untill i did, no new tools, nope, just the one planned, now well its got to be a bit more like wheres the toilet roll to write my shopping list on, I need a new tenon saw, rip saw, chisels, planes, ....... etc etc etc, its madness, I often made do with out something, now looking around in here I decide I can't and I really ought to get the things I now NEED.

Your a rotten bunch of sods, its like taking a kid into a candy store and licking a barley twist in front of him.

 

[woodbloke]

momo wrote:

Your a rotten bunch of sods, its like taking a kid into a candy store and licking a barley twist in front of him.

Around these parts it's called 'The Slope' and and it's analogous to a certain group across the water who's motto was 'once in, never out' and I 'spose something similar could be said about the Slope...'once on, never off' :lol: If you're going to Yandles in a couple of weeks, the thing to be really grateful for is that Waka will be a few thousand miles away! - Rob

 

[momo]

Never been to Yandles, so no idea there apart from hey sell timber I think.

As for Waka, I have heard he is a bit like a legal klepto :lol: and loves to squirrel things way, come to think of it I think I saw a post he made about gloating over some chisels someone had got, he then posted his pics to say something like Oh these !.

Time to check my ebay items I think....... now, wheres that jack plane sale gone....

 

[christoph clark]

wheres the toilet roll to write my shopping list on

I have the Rutlands and Axminster catalogue next to my bed.. :lol:

 

[OPJ]

My good friend Dr Lecter taught me this way of dealing with troublesome neighbours during one of my stays at the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Aha! Another use for the Fein Multimaster!! :wink:

 

[Digit]

Well I'm about to ruin a good rant. I've got marvelous neighbours!
I live in a TINY village in west Wales and the community sprit is such that they were fighting over who was going to take me to hospital when the consultant said that I wouldn't be able to drive home!

Roy.

 

[tenpin]

momo
i feel for you buddy
i have one great neighbour and the other side i have an old pair of scrotes....2 old gits that live together :shock: iv'e posted on here before of my woes..with scrote complaing of excessive noise.... and burning my off cut woods in my rubbish burning bin....the bin is 150 feet away from the house at the bottom of the garden...fekker

latest was 2 weeks ago when building control inspector turned up at the front door saying neigbour was complaining of bathroom smells and that they had reason to beleive i had just installed a new bathroom without building concent...well i showed him the bathroom and showed him photos of the bathroom before we replaced the suite in the same room only some 2 years ago !!!!!....he shook his head said something on the lines of "waste my time" and that he has to follow up all complaints.... i showed him the door...trouble is twits like this get away with it because yoghurt knitting councils bow down to them for fear of being hauled over the coals....we are fighting a losing battle against them......
As someone once said...."They walk amongst us"

I have the Rutlands and Axminster catalogue next to my bed.. :lol:

i have Screwfix, Axminster, Rutlands and Trend mags next to my bed....my wife says "Are you reading your porn tonight darling or are you turning the light out" :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Digit]

Look at this way tenpin, you have a hobby, you shouldn't begrudge others having one! :twisted:
I once had a neighbour who used to dump his lawn mowings on my drive. When talking achieved nothing I posted them back through his letter box.
Sorted!
There are some sad people out there.

Roy.

 

[momo]

tenpin, I hear you loud and clear there, and I feel every bit of misery you get, the sod next door has a wife who has MS and is in a wheel chair, he does nothing for her but moans his meal isnt ready, not like he does anything all day but drink and whine, then he asked me to hold his dog one day when we first moved here so he could cut its toes, poor thing lost most of its toes and bled madly, I told him what a c-nut he was and I wasn't helping him again, then he moans at us having a red setter till we were forced to let it go, then he starts huge fires at the end of the garden strategicaly placed and timed for when the wife does the washing, sweeps his garden rubbish into our drive and then tipped the wheelie bins over one day, it got so bad I put up cctv and he got caught doing it, ah ha i thought, lets wait, sure as eggs are eggs plod turned up and said he accused us of doing it, so I showed plod the video and he went round to pull him next I hear is him telling the copper how I was lying and we had no video, and his dumb daughter saying the same till plod warned her he couldn't lie to them about seeing the video. He still got away with it and does to this day.

He stands in his drive waving his arms about at us and mouthing/shouting stuff etc but the law wont take any notice, I caught him running down the fence line in the field next to our house peering through our windows a while back at night, sadly he didnt realise I put up 500w lights front side and back :lol: , he looked stupid trying to hide in a empty field. Still plod did nothing.

He put this bench seat in his garden and then like a . placed this straw scarecrow type thing on it with his hat on and faced it right through our door, I told him it was a good likeness of him a right cretin and a dummy, and he went mental shouting he was calling the law!.

Ah well I'm sure you have it all yourself, so like I said I do feel your pain.

 

[Rob H]

I dont have the neighbour problem. 1. my work shops are at my dads not my house. 2. his neighbour is my grandma so thats no prob apart from the can you just do this do that and the other for me! 3. my dads garage has been there for the best part off 100 years so every 1 is well used to lots of noise some times after 12am!! compressor running all day every day so my bit of noise whats that did a fly f*rt!!

 

[Anonymous]

Clearly none of us know the full story and he seems like a neighbour I would not like next to me, however, a little respect and consideration goes a long way. The first thing I did after moving into a new house and workshop was install soundproofing.

Power tools first thing in the morning on a Saturday, and he had the nerve to complain??? :roll:

 

[Bodrighy]

Having bad neighbours can really put you down. Ours drive us nuts sometimes. If it's not the pheasants it's the sheep or the deer. The horses chickens and dogs are OK . Don't know about human neighbours though, haven't really had any for twenty years, don't think I could cope with them.
Only problem I get making a noise in the shed is that it attracts some of the local farm kids who want to have a go on the lathe. Oh yeah, and their parents who keep asking if I want another tree yet. Apparently there's an old yew that's down now. It never stops!!!

Pete

 

[BradNaylor]

My workshop backs on to a block of flats, so I have to be a bit careful about the noise I make. I have a rule - no machines before 7.00am; 8.00am on a Sunday!

Thing is though, my machines are all industrial 3-phase jobbies - they are actually pretty quiet. Single phase DIY machines such as bench-top thicknessers can be unbelievably loud. If my next door neighbour was using one of those on a Saturday morning I think I'd be the guy banging on the wall!

To make a load of noise and then complain about a 'bad neighbour' when one of them complains seems a bit rich to me. You really should think about insulating your workroom more efficiently...

... or stick to hand tools. :lol:

At the end of the day, the grumpy old man next door thinks he's got a lousy neighbour, too!

 

[tenpin]

momo

sounds like your guy has the same issue as mine...lost the plot....obviously a mental issue and that puts a whole different issue on things....doesn't matter what you could do to placate them they still think your the problem..
Best thing to do in these cases is document all contact and issues...you won't win as the system won't allow you too but trust me eventually the people they complain to whether council, police or other will realise that they are the unreasonable party......