One more pragmatic thought about selling and buying anew: Where do you want to go to be truly safe from the neighbor’s music? You’re bringing part of the problem with you. Changing neighbors, the risk situation remains high.
If we really think it over, it should be a detached farmhouse. I would give up a lot of new-build standards and we would definitely have to renovate quite a bit until we are back where we are now. But hopefully it would be without external sound. That already has priority.
The house next to us is for sale. We would be happy to have quiet neighbors :D
So far the house is also inhabited by a quiet older couple, but ‘well maintained’ :)
As an FPS qualification, I can present Metro Last Light and Resident Evil.
Haha :D
More important would be: What kind of internet connection is available? Last mile copper from Telekom, or FTTH?
I don’t think I would move into a house without FTTH available anymore.
Farmhouse in the countryside: tractor noise at all kinds of times, dogs barking, cats in heat, roosters crowing at sunrise... so finding something really quiet won’t be easy either.
It exists around here... also with fiber optic, but THOSE houses have now completely shot up in price.
The background noises besides music don’t bother me at all. We also have a sports field behind our noise barrier wall, where there’s sometimes football training, but I’m not bothered at all when they shout, whistle and cheer there. That’s somehow a normal ambient noise, it doesn’t trigger me at all. They sometimes play music there too, but it’s further away than the neighbor, so it’s less audible here, plus usually it’s over after the hour of training.
I have also viewed the prices of such houses with a raised eyebrow in recent days. 800k and up. o_O
We also wanted to sell. At least 10% I have to write off with a move, if it’s barely enough. And I basically can’t get my better half down from the new-build standard anymore. He really let some nice existing buildings slip through that would have been priced in the green range. I’m currently no longer searching intensively.
And it’s true: such a problem moves along.
I wish you more luck with this matter!
Gabriele
Thank you! Why are you moving away from your new build?
With Kati it’s supposedly rather the music from the house, which is measured outside at 45 dB (or similar).
Something like that. It’s the music from the garden that reaches our property at 45dB, but you can basically forget that number, it was only measured with a phone app. And what really bothers is the bass/frequencies, and you would need a proper measuring device to detect that.
The music doesn’t come from the neighbor’s house but comes from the neighbor’s garden INTO OUR house. I hear it in the living room with closed windows and shutters over my TV. I once sent them a WhatsApp on Sunday asking if they could turn it off when they’re no longer in the garden, because we wanted to watch something on TV... :rolleyes:
It basically comes down to consideration—and a garden is not a closed private room, but when you have neighbors who have to hear everything. You think twice about whether something really needs to be on Saturday or early Wednesday. Or whether the general interest doesn’t outweigh the personal.
Or at least you SHOULD think about it. Apparently not everyone does.
It’s also pretty unlucky that it hit us like this. Here in the settlement nobody else actually does this to that degree. Only our neighbors, who also built extremely close to us. :/
I don’t understand what is so bad about music now. First, it doesn’t play every day but only every few days and also not for 5 hours etc. If the neighbors are disturbed by my music, they can always go into their house. I don’t play loud enough for them to hear it there.
Ours does hear it. I don’t have peace in the house either, even with closed windows and shutters. And I told him that once.
Moreover, that attitude is relatively inconsiderate. Of course, I can always go into my house. I have also spent the whole summer so far sitting inside, on the other side of the house in the office, where you actually can’t hear it.
But when it’s nice outside and sunny, we would also like to have coffee on the terrace sometimes. Without having their taste in music imposed on us. More precisely, we would just like to talk without having to hear any music.
But this discussion is futile, and that’s not what this is about here. If it’s allowed within the legal framework, and the neighbor considers it necessary, then all that’s left for us is to flee elsewhere.