Hi all, not for facebook please. Our neighbours kids recently constructed what they call a wind catcher which on days/nights where it is winding, it howls and gets louder with more wind and then knocks on a cowbell type thing and clangs around. It's been okay during the day but overnight lately it's horrendous. We have a group chat wth the street and it is an issue for many involved, so I approached neighbours to discuss taking it down.
Their children are ASD and they refuse to take it down because they said it will cause a meltdown and isnt worth the fight for them and can we all just use earplugs. well that doesn't work for us because we have a baby who we rely on a monitor to wake us up when he cries and the location theyve set it up next to is the kids bedrooms which backs onto the fence (very close in proximity) and i cannot ask my kids to wear headphones or earplugs to bed lol.
What can we do moving forward because right now i want to go and just destroy it and tear it down which i wouldn't actually do but the banging and howling for long times is so annoying and im losing sleep.
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If you all hear it and are annoyed by it put a complaint in with your council.
Thank U I have done this just now and they said it will be up to 2 weeks for them to come and assess and i need video recordings of it happening which i will get tonight
Ugh asd is not an excuse for poor behaviour. Make a noise complaint to the police at night when it is making the noise and keeping everyone up
OMG no freaking way!!
My ASD children would be told that it would have to come down at nights and there’s no way I would be leaving that thing up all night if it’s annoying my neighbours. Lady needs to get off that high horse and deal with the meltdown and then remember she’s in a freaking neighbour hood not on a farm and to have some respect for her neighbours. If someone told me to wear earplugs to sleep I’d be livid!!
Glad you put in a complaint with the council. You are lucky you didn’t call the cops on them in the middle of the night.
ASD family here too, and there is no way I’d allow my kid to do this.
Could they maybe relocate it to the other side of the house or elsewhere so it won't disturb their neighbours?
Being autistic is not an excuse to be a disruption to the neighbourhood. I say this as an autistic person and I don't mean behaviours that can't be helped, I mean that they still have to understand that being good community members means they can't have everything exactly the way they want it. Personally as an autistic person, I don't want to hear high pitched dog barks or leaf blower sounds around my house but if I choose to live in the suburbs, that's what's going to happen.
I absolutely adore wind chimes! The more the better ! They help me sleep . You'll get used to them won't you? they are relaxing and help treat my clinical anxiety . I would never complain about this but each to their own
It doesn't sound like the poster is talking about a tinkling little wind chime, whatever it is it's making enough racket to disturb several people in the street!
For the record, normal wind chimes have the opposite effect on me. The sporadic rythym and high pitched jangling makes me feel so stressed.
I've lived near people who kept a heap of wind chimes outside, I never got used to it. I think I'd rather someone stand outside my window and play the tuba all night lol.
As I said, each to their own. I would totally love it.
Do your wind chimes clang on cow bells?
Doesnt each to their own mean yoj understand that some people may not enjoy cowbells clanging all night long?!
Play wind chime noise from your phone then. Don't disrupt everyone else's sleep for your own selfish benefit
There is nothing about this contraption that sounds like tinkling wind chimes!
Even if they are wind chimes, they are loud enough to disturb the entire street. That’s not ok.
If they need noise to sleep there are ways to provide that without disturbing there neighbours all night.
I put them up during daytime hours, when I’m home. Because they do get annoying, especially if a big wind comes through suddenly. If I want wind chime noise while I sleep, I can have that in my bedroom without disturbing the neighbourhood.
I see above that you've already made a complaint to the council (which I think is well and truly justified).
Maybe as one last act of good faith, you could have another chat with them and see if there's a compromise. Perhaps the contraption could be secured or partially disassembled at night as opposed to removing it entirely?