Noisy/ Ignorant Neighbours
For context, myself and my fiance bought our house last year, it is a four in a block. We are 21 and 22 so this is our first home together therefore we aren’t sure how to deal with this in the best way. We have never really talked to the upstairs neighbours but over the past two months something has changed.
They have always been relatively noisy as these types of houses have very thin walls. They used to constantly argue and scream at each other literally every other night. Sometimes bad enough to wake us up in the middle of the night. Other neighbours have called the police on them a few times as they chapped our door asking what they were like or if we hear disturbances. This was a month or so after we moved in so obviously didn’t want to start off with grassing them into the police. Anyway they stopped the constant screaming when they had a baby.
In these four in a block houses, some garden is shared and some is private to each house. We like to keep a tidy garden so we cut the grass for the whole garden a few times then it was apparent they won’t do it. It is also an unspoken rule/ neighbourly thing to do is take each other’s bins out while you take yours out, we started this when we moved in. Again we did this because we wanted to start off on a good foot with them. However it seems they started taking advantage of that and rarely do it themselves now. One time, we missed taking the bins out and they simply didn’t do it either. They also started using our bins with they filled up their own, without even asking us. On the note we like to keep a nice garden, they once chucked out a used dirty mattress in the front garden which was the first thing you saw when you walk past. I left it 6 weeks in the hope they would get rid of it but I ended up paying to have it removed.
Recently, they have been letting their dog out to poo in my garden (my property) and not picking it up. Three times it happened then we went to their door, we were ignored. A few weeks ago, me and my fiance were carrying on/having a laugh, not too late-about 10:30, and she banged down and screamed for us to shut the F up- rich coming from them.
They are noisy all day now, with heavy foot steps to banging things to the dog barking for hours. They don’t fight as much now but still once or twice a week. It is becoming a nuisance and is starting to give me migraines listening for hours. As we are so young, I don’t think they take us serious and have no respect for us.
I believe their house is a council house and mine is owned. I don’t want to cause a complete war as we still have to live under them but I want them to know it’s not acceptable anymore. The woman sounds aggressive/violent so I’m not sure how it would go if I chapped their door. Any advice would be appreciated!