Noisy Neighbors?

[OneMoreFarang]

In another tread members talk about buying property in Thailand and noisy neighbors.

 

Did you ever have noisy neighbors in Thailand?

Could you solve this by yourself with the neighbor?

Did you let the security people or management handle this?

Was it so bad that you moved out?

 

Personally, I had a long time ago a noisy neighbor. I let it slide a few times and then I just called the security of the building, every time he started noise again in the middle of the night.

I don't remember how long it took, but maybe max one month later the problem was solved.

How about you?

[Martin71]

Gave my landlord 30 days notice today.. neighbour single woman living alone is the noisiest @#$%  I have ever come across, made me and the wife's life a misery  .. I don't hit women... but this one I have had some very dark thoughts about..

[Martin71]

Since she moved in, I have found it easy to understand when you hear/read the news about people snapping and killing their neighbours over noise...it really does get to you..

[Captain Monday]

Thailand no Ameica yes.

 

A  lummox above who walked, literally like a brontosaurus

in a newer apartment but typical cheap construction

I could hear every step he made from 5 or 6 AM. Bam Bamm Bammm

He could not have cared less.

 

I  moved.

[proton]

Last event a bloody cockerel at it all day, crafty bugger, like a dog was not so bad when they were in. Complained to the owner and they got rid of, 3 months later it was back, complained again this time it looks like gone for good. Its a housing estate not a farmyard. Other than that yapping dogs, always found it useless to complain so resorted to anonymous letters which almost always worked. If you talk to them they just make excuses then never speak to you again. Lucky with the music apart from guy up the road who went off the rails when his mrs left. Never heard a domestic sound system so loud the poor woman opposite nearly had a breakdown.

[scubascuba3]

My condo is quiet except for the 10 months a year of refurbs going on, one of the downsides of an older condo

[worgeordie]

About 20 years ago we had an American and his Thai wife , they had 6 Alsatian dogs,

the noise was terrible , over the     years the dogs died , then the   man  then his wife,

good neighbors      moved in ,over the road     they are Muslims so no dogs ,about the

same time as the American we had a Doctor 3 house along he had also 6 dogs ,which

he just let roam free       ,biting people ,one by one they died and never got any more,

so quiet now .......

 

regards Worgeordie

[Middle Aged Grouch]

A friend once rented a pool villa in a fairly post developpment in Hua Hin. All looked fine on the websites and seemed nice once they arrived, I guess.

 

Few days later a bunch of germans arrived who had rented the villa in front. It was non stop noise, drunken brawls, loud music, all night loud talking, noise of pools splashing till late evenings.... The developpment security guard was first informed and just looked on blantly and of course pretended not to understand. Then the managment was informed but did not really seem to care. Problem was never solved for their entire 3 week holiday. Needless to say, they will never pay the hefty rent price in that specific developpment in Hua Hin, Hin Lek Fai.

[theblether]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

In another tread members talk about buying property in Thailand and noisy neighbors.

 

Did you ever have noisy neighbors in Thailand?

Could you solve this by yourself with the neighbor?

Did you let the security people or management handle this?

Was it so bad that you moved out?

 

Personally, I had a long time ago a noisy neighbor. I let it slide a few times and then I just called the security of the building, every time he started noise again in the middle of the night.

I don't remember how long it took, but maybe max one month later the problem was solved.

How about you?

 

I know someone who's wife had a nervous breakdown due to a ridiculous, truly appalling, noise issue. A neighbour had rented their villa as a party house and the never-ending stream of tourists partied all night for months. That guy sold up. 

 

I concur with the other comments mentioning cheap construction. I've stayed in a couple of condos where front door's closing sounded like an explosion going off. That's before you get to issues such as music, high heels rattling down the corridor etc

 

The rookie mistake is signing up for a condo without sleeping in it for a few nights first. Far too many people view by day only to discover that the noise from the night bars is a nightmare. Always ask if you can rent the condo or a nearby condo first before handing over your deposit. 

[theblether]

8 minutes ago, Middle Aged Grouch said:

A friend once rented a pool villa in a fairly post developpment in Hua Hin. All looked fine on the websites and seemed nice once they arrived, I guess.

 

Few days later a bunch of germans arrived who had rented the villa in front. It was non stop noise, drunken brawls, loud music, all night loud talking, noise of pools splashing till late evenings.... The developpment security guard was first informed and just looked on blantly and of course pretended not to understand. Then the managment was informed but did not really seem to care. Problem was never solved for their entire 3 week holiday. Needless to say, they will never pay the hefty rent price in that specific developpment in Hua Hin, Hin Lek Fai.

 

Same thing happened to a mate and his wife had a nervous breakdown. 

 

Hua Hin has seen an explosion in these type of party houses, it's transforming and not for the better. 

[SingAPorn]

Problem if you buy a house then you are stuck.

[Moonlover]

Had a problem with the neighbours dogs at night for a while. Bought an ultra sonic device on Lazada. No more barking.

[Lacessit]

We had a group above us in the condo who came in at 2 am and kicked on until about 4 am.

One of the guys had a guitar. His singing voice and the guitar were so far off-key it was torture to the ears.

I suspect I was not the only person to complain to condo management. I think the Juristic person told their landlord water and electricity would be cut off if the noise continued.

They were gone after about three weeks.

[bkk6060]

The new world attitude is careless about others.  Do what you want when you want and F everyone else. Besides living environments, look at the phone situation.  Just have ongoing loud conversation where ever you want who cares about others.  Noise and rudeness way of the world now it seems

[OneMoreFarang]

1 minute ago, bkk6060 said:

The new world attitude is careless about others.  Do what you want when you want and F everyone else. Besides living environments, look at the phone situation.  Just have ongoing loud conversation where ever you want who cares about others.  Noise and rudeness way of the world now it seems

Not really.

It depends a lot on where you are and the people who are in those locations.

I am regularly in multiple restaurants without these problems.

And where I live mostly it is civilized in the floors, the lifts, and the corridors in between.

[JeffersLos]

A minor issue when I moved in that I solved perfectly.

 

I moved into an area that the people living there had lived in for generations. My house and land is the biggest and best built. The house next door has 5 people spanning 3 generations living in 2 or 3 rooms. 

 

They have work equipment etc at the side of their house, so had gotten used to coming into my driveway walking along and then turning into the back area of their house, instead of squeezing past their equipment. 

 

When I moved in the grandmother asked politely if she can, which I said yes, no problem. Then her big lump of an adult daughter started barging onto my land everyday in the most disrespectful ways possible, never asked, never said hello, started pushing my stuff out of her way on my land, bringing out dirty clothes etc from the back and shaking the dust etc out of them on my driveway before walking back to theirs. 

 

Obviously this was to stop. I could have put up a fence, built a wall and roofed off the whole section.

 

Instead, I got concrete hedge boxes and lined them up around a foot from the small dividing wall and put in hedges that makes coming onto my driveway pointless unless one wants to then climb through a hedge. But, I left the one foot of space between the dividing wall and hedges so they can use the foot of space to traverse their equipment if need be, especially for the grandmother. Greng jai. I solved it with a solution that was considerate of everyone. I see nice hedging, lose around a foot of land that I have no use or want for, and they have some space to get around to the back of their house, plus it showed I'm not to be disrespected just because I'm a new American that just moved into to their territory to be walked over by some racist middle aged bull woman. 

[simple1]

32 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

Had a problem with the neighbours dogs at night for a while. Bought an ultra sonic device on Lazada. No more barking.

what was the  device?

[scubascuba3]

44 minutes ago, theblether said:

I've stayed in a couple of condos where front door's closing sounded like an explosion going off

I used to stay in a hotel for 3-4 months in Pattaya where the doors were getting slammed often, a german guest put some foam tape around all of the doors to stop it

[Kinnock]

I don't think most Thai people consider noise to be a problem.  Many keep dogs as a sort of cheap alarm, and they bark at everything all the time, others have ginormous speakers in their ratty old pickups, blaring 'luk tung' pop music all night, or even worse, Thai rap, which sounds an angry toddler tantrum.

 

[SAFETY FIRST]

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

you ever have noisy neighbors in Thailand?

I've got this very average looking Russian chick next door. 

 

 

She's very noisy, lots of moans, groans and screams. 

 

At first I thought she was getting attacked, was going to call security. 

 

It doesn't really bother me, I don't sleep there. 

 

The noises I've recorded are all throughout the daytime, I've made a few of these recordings.

I was going to report to the Juristic management. 

[proton]

4 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

I don't think most Thai people consider noise to be a problem.  Many keep dogs as a sort of cheap alarm, and they bark at everything all the time, others have ginormous speakers in their ratty old pickups, blaring 'luk tung' pop music all night, or even worse, Thai rap, which sounds an angry toddler tantrum.

 

 

Luktung is not 'pop' music.

[jaideedave]

50 minutes ago, Middle Aged Grouch said:

A friend once rented a pool villa in a fairly post developpment in Hua Hin. All looked fine on the websites and seemed nice once they arrived, I guess.

 

Few days later a bunch of germans arrived who had rented the villa in front. It was non stop noise, drunken brawls, loud music, all night loud talking, noise of pools splashing till late evenings.... The developpment security guard was first informed and just looked on blantly and of course pretended not to understand. Then the managment was informed but did not really seem to care. Problem was never solved for their entire 3 week holiday. Needless to say, they will never pay the hefty rent price in that specific developpment in Hua Hin, Hin Lek Fai.

We've live in the same house and moo ban for 17yrs.A couple years ago they knocked down the old house next to ours.A Chinese couple built a 5 br pool villa for short term rental listed on Booking.com. 12k/night 3 day minimum.About once a week a mini van will unload 4-6 guys and the afternoon and the ladies are brought back usually after midnight and the pool parties start.

I spent 60k upgrading my windows with laminates etc to no avail.

Complaints to city hall get a shrug. They're using the female moo ban manager as the proxy.There's fa we can do about it. 

I've rented a 1 br condo in a quiet part of Jomtien that has a strong juristic office that don't allow Air B&B.Sleeping great now. Wifey don't like it either and we will now try to sell the place.  

[stoner]

39 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

The new world attitude is careless about others.  Do what you want when you want and F everyone else. Besides living environments, look at the phone situation.  Just have ongoing loud conversation where ever you want who cares about others.  Noise and rudeness way of the world now it seems

 

back in early 2000's when phones started to become a thing we would call people hollywood for talking on their phone. 

[NativeBob]

36 minutes ago, simple1 said:

what was the  device?

Dazer. works miracles!

there are handheld and solar-battery operated with motion detector. No more mutts around since.

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, simple1 said:

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

Had a problem with the neighbours dogs at night for a while. Bought an ultra sonic device on Lazada. No more barking.

 

1 hour ago, simple1 said:

what was the  device?

I bought this one Dog bark silencer There similar types on Lazada.

 

[advancebooking]

years ago we rented a house in a moobahn village full of selfish middle class thais. family across the road had a rat dog barking after midnight every night. I got all the neighbours together and we went to chat to the family. He looked pissed at me and my wife thought he might attack me. That night no noise. They kept the rat inside. After that every night outside again. We moved house. On the day of the truck moving our stuff he just stood there giving me the evil stare. End of story haha

[grain]

I've lived in Thailand a very long time, and all over the place, I've had to move at least a dozen times due to unbearable noise. Some of the situations that have forced me to move from rented house and apartments that I really liked are: next door neighbor starting a metal work cutting, grinding, welding business in his drive way. Next door neighbor cooking and selling food in their driveway, including late night drinking sessions. Karaoke bars, funfairs, open-air cinemas, Ligae and Manora performances popping up overnight on vacant lots of land nearby. Anyway, I'm now living out in the rice farming boonies, it's lovely and quiet at night just as long as nobody dies, nobody is getting married, and no boys are becoming monks.

[3NUMBAS]

alway partys somewhere  and theyre loud and noise carrys all over town

[bunnydrops]

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

 

I bought this one Dog bark silencer There similar types on Lazada.

 

I just want to add that they are not 100% effective. I have used them on my peddle bike to stop dogs from chasing me. Some dogs (usually older and larger) don't seem to hear it, and some get used to it. They work really well on younger dogs, sometimes yelping in pain.

[AreYouGerman]

2 hours ago, Moonlover said:

 

I bought this one Dog bark silencer There similar types on Lazada.

 

 

That's pretty awesome. But does it make a sound we humans can hear? I need to be very diplomatic with the neighbor and his dogs and don't want him to find out that I am torturing his dogs for torturing me with barking 24/7.