House for rent near the temple how is it

[villageidiotY2K]

Hi folks, I’m interested in moving to this fairly new detached townhouse but there’s a temple around a km away.

does anyone lived near the temple and had problems with the noise that u got to move out ?

 

im sort of aware they blast the speakers when someone gets ordained or something

[Denim]

Depends. Not all are noisy but some are.  I lived with my first wife in our house right opposite the temple. Most of the time it only had one monk except following Kow Pansar. However , that monk wa a real pain. He often woke up at around 3 .00 a.m. and would proceed to turn on the village tannoy. He would then clear his throat, cough and splutter for a minute before uttering a few platitudes then turning on a tape recording of a sermon.  Drove me crazy but luckily the village got rid of him after a month as others also disliked him and when he got caught kiddy diddling he was out on his ear.

 

After that peace reighned supreme for a year before his replacement got caught in a compromising position with a woman. Pity that as he was otherwise ok and very quiet.

 

Best thing is to ask around before you rent although 1 kilometer should be plenty far enough away.

[Gsxrnz]

8 minutes ago, Denim said:

Depends. Not all are noisy but some are.  I lived with my first wife in our house right opposite the temple. Most of the time it only had one monk except following Kow Pansar. However , that monk wa a real pain. He often woke up at around 3 .00 a.m. and would proceed to turn on the village tannoy. He would then clear his throat, cough and splutter for a minute before uttering a few platitudes then turning on a tape recording of a sermon.  Drove me crazy but luckily the village got rid of him after a month as others also disliked him and when he got caught kiddy diddling he was out on his ear.

 

After that peace reighned supreme for a year before his replacement got caught in a compromising position with a woman. Pity that as he was otherwise ok and very quiet.

 

Best thing is to ask around before you rent although 1 kilometer should be plenty far enough away.

 

Brilliant reply, you've made my day.

[KannikaP]

I am about 500 metres as the crow flies from our local temple. They start at 5am, chanting and xylophone music until 7am when the local leader does his announcement of News etc. Quite often the two overlap.

Got myself some earbuds/plugs, so no current worries.

[Denim]

12 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I am about 500 metres as the crow flies from our local temple. They start at 5am, chanting and xylophone music until 7am when the local leader does his announcement of News etc. Quite often the two overlap.

Got myself some earbuds/plugs, so no current worries.

 

Actually , its not only a question of proximity to temple but more importantly how near are the village loudspeakers. They don't call them loudspeakers for nothing. You really DO want to be as far away from these bad boys as possible since as you say you get both the temple racket plus all the village annoucements. The name and shame ones go on a long time. This is when the village headman reads out a long list of village dwellers and how much they each donated for the repair of the temple roof or toilets etc. ' Mr Lek , 500 baht , Granny Noy , 50 baht, Auntie Porn 120 baht ad nauseum.

 

There was a thread a long time ago about how a member hated these speakers so much that one dark moonless night he drssed up Ninja style and went and cut the speaker wires with a pair of pliers. Fail.....because the village headman just followed the wire to the break and spliced it together. Apparently , the best way to deal with annoying speakers ( as Bricktop might have put it ) is to get an ordinary pin and push it through the wire to create a short circuit. Then close cut both ends and blacken them with a felt pen rendering them invisible.

No break and it will take the villagers a lot longer to fix. Now you know

[bkk6060]

They can be loud.  I would never move near one.

[actonion]

A friend has just moved into  a high floor Condo, right next door to a  large Temple, but not high enough he thinks, as  he  has just noticed the Chimney  & the Smoke from some person who has  just been Cremated, thankfully the day he noticed it the wind was in the opposite direction, time to move out before the wind changes 

[ronster]

Owned a villa about 300m from a temple . Most of the time it was quiet except when they had a fair shop event on for a few days . Then at weekend would be a nightmare with live music , as it was at usual 1000db and the windows of our villa would rattle from the bass until it stopped between 12-2am .

Also twice had drunks twice come into our garden and stagger around in the dark before climbing over the wall to get out.

[rudi49jr]

Noisy….

[jippytum]

noisy and smokey if they do cremations

[jesimps]

3 hours ago, villageidiotY2K said:

Hi folks, I’m interested in moving to this fairly new detached townhouse but there’s a temple around a km away.

does anyone lived near the temple and had problems with the noise that u got to move out ?

 

im sort of aware they blast the speakers when someone gets ordained or something

Noisy!

[khunPer]

6 hours ago, villageidiotY2K said:

Hi folks, I’m interested in moving to this fairly new detached townhouse but there’s a temple around a km away.

does anyone lived near the temple and had problems with the noise that u got to move out ?

 

im sort of aware they blast the speakers when someone gets ordained or something

You might hear nice monk's mass at Sunrise – if I'm awake that early I can hear it from the temple about a kilometre away from my house – it can actually be a relaxing experience...😊

[khunPer]

However, if and when there are held a temple-market – they lasts about 9-10 days where I live, twice a years – you might have a bit of free noisy entertainment until midnight or 2 am...

[KhunLA]

Do you enjoy being woke up before sunrise ?

 

Aside from temple, always look for loud speakers on utility poles, in any area you plan on living.   Never hurts to visit the area in the early morning hours, and kill some time with you morning coffee & reading, as assess the noise pollution.  

 

Add the weekend nights to that also, to see where all the youngins or old drunks are, and if plying music loud.

[oxo1947]

6 hours ago, villageidiotY2K said:

had problems with the noise that u got to move out ?

 

Temple -No.... mosques yes.... about 20 years ago thought about living in Krabi, Gave up that Idea after a month there.............

[johng]

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Never hurts to visit the area in the early morning hours, and kill some time with you morning coffee & reading, as assess the noise pollution. 

 

 

Yes I got caught out very badly once  by not surveying the area  at night time

I'm talking 2-4 AM  where  directly across the narrow soi  was an Ice crushing

"factory"   during the day it was a nice quite (ish) soi  but in the dead of night they turned up with huge blocks of ice  on a six wheeler truck and very loudly offloaded them  after which the crushing started an horrendous cacophony all soundproofing attempts where futile..and no I did not get used to it and earplugs are horrid when you hear the thumping of your heart instead..be very careful choosing a location... rent it first  just in case  is a wise move !!!

[Crossy]

Yeah ^^^, it's a massive "it depends" ...

 

We are 150m from our local wat and it must be occupied by church-mice

 

There's the "wake-up" drum at silly-o'clock pretty brief, roll over and go back to sleep, or get up if the urge takes me, late morning "come to the cookhouse door" drum and there may be a "lights-out" drum but I've usually got my cans on by then to drown out the Thai soaps that Madam watches. Like aircraft noise you get used to it and the brain just filters it out.

 

Maybe two or three "noisy" days a year, but they actually have a decent sound system so, unless you really hate the music, it's not really too bad.

 

Village speakers only get fired up when puyai-baan has something useful to say and that's not every day.

 

To be honest we get more noise from a nightclub a couple of clicks away over the river and that's really only when the wind is wrong.

 

[theblether]

My local temples are very quiet. I stayed opposite a temple in Tha Ton that was ridiculous, 6am onwards noise blast. Equally, I actually stayed in a silent temple where the villagers were out of order noise -wise every Friday ( their religious day ). 

 

I'd look around for a guest house if available and stay a couple of nights to test this place. 

[john donson]

no temple,no mosque, no highway

[steven100]

Why would you want to even risk a noise problem.   Maybe ... maybe not   ?  

 

no thanks,   live as far away as possible,   don't you like peace and quite  ?  

[Crossy]

4 minutes ago, steven100 said:

Why would you want to even risk a noise problem.   Maybe ... maybe not   ?  

 

no thanks,   live as far away as possible,   don't you like peace and quite  ?  

 

I do quite like quiet.

[ravip]

Living near a temple is a big risk. Sometimes, it might be quiet. But if the head monk changes or something like that, the speakers might start blasting. I wouldn't take th6at risk, ever!

Edited October 19 by ravip

[recom273]

8 hours ago, Denim said:

 

Actually , its not only a question of proximity to temple but more importantly how near are the village loudspeakers. They don't call them loudspeakers for nothing. You really DO want to be as far away from these bad boys as possible since as you say you get both the temple racket plus all the village annoucements. The name and shame ones go on a long time. This is when the village headman reads out a long list of village dwellers and how much they each donated for the repair of the temple roof or toilets etc. ' Mr Lek , 500 baht , Granny Noy , 50 baht, Auntie Porn 120 baht ad nauseum.

 

There was a thread a long time ago about how a member hated these speakers so much that one dark moonless night he drssed up Ninja style and went and cut the speaker wires with a pair of pliers. Fail.....because the village headman just followed the wire to the break and spliced it together. Apparently , the best way to deal with annoying speakers ( as Bricktop might have put it ) is to get an ordinary pin and push it through the wire to create a short circuit. Then close cut both ends and blacken them with a felt pen rendering them invisible.

No break and it will take the villagers a lot longer to fix. Now you know

I love how you go into so much detail, but start the sentence with apparently .. 

[GypsyT]

My short list;

No temple, no church, no hospital, no day care, no school, no fire station, no military, no fast food, no night club, no taxi station

[transam]

4 minutes ago, GypsyT said:

My short list;

No temple, no church, no hospital, no day care, no school, no fire station, no military, no fast food, no night club, no taxi station

Agreed...........

[Elkski]

Good idea t be concerned.  The chanting is a big negative in Thailand for me.  However if your a single guy and it's a temple where lots of gals come to give merit then party or eat it may be good hunting grounds. 

[ravip]

13 hours ago, GypsyT said:

My short list;

No temple, no church, no hospital, no day care, no school, no fire station, no military, no fast food, no night club, no taxi station

Absolutely agree!

[grain]

The 3 big noise things you need to stay well away from when looking for a new place to live in Thailand are: 1. (obviously the first one) and kind of karaoke bar, or pub, beer garden, anywhere there will be Thai bands or music. 2. Temples. They're not always so noisy but you never know what they'll get up to. All Thai religious ceremonies held at temples are noisy (they love mikes and loud speakers) and often temples hold fairs, and these are deafening. 3) empty plots of land. Not a good idea to have empty plots of land too close by, they are often leased out to funfairs, weekend markets, and similar events. Plus you never know when some construction will start and they'll be months of noise.

[Will B Good]

 

We live equidistant from four temples.

 

You get used to the morning prayers, the odd bell tolling away, can be quite pleasant.....the village heads droning on are  much more annoying.

 

The worst part is Temple events (once/twice a week?)......the loudspeakers must be illegal. I would guess easily over 100 dB stood near to them...and they are obsessed with the big, deep bass notes......they are used, I am told, to advertise something is going on.

 

I would make every effort to live as far away from a temple, particular ones that accommodate markets, as possible.

[Old Croc]

From our farm we can see 3 temples in 3 different villages. The closest temple is 450 meters away.

I hear the tom-toms at 0600 most mornings when the monk wakes up, again at 1600 for whatever. Sometimes there's chanting or traditional music. The travelling carnies include our village in their schedule, so once a year for a couple of days there's a fair, with rock music blaring until midnight Ish. All good entertainment for the locals and I can listen from the verandah, beer in hand. This year they moved all the way to the village on the other side of us so we were entertained for consecutive weekends

I have no problems with most temple noise. However, with the aging population, there seems to be far too many funerals, which are punctuated with very loud fireworks. Always poignant as we usually know the subject.

 

We can only just hear the village head's messages as he is further away than the temple. The wife goes outside if she wants to hear it. It is rarely used now as the village has their own LINE account where members exchange information and wares.