Halloween Noise Diary

• 4:00 - television on too loud, sounds like football commentary from upstairs.
  7:00 - assorted furniture scraping, footfalls from upstairs.
  7:45 - loud shouted conversation in stairwell.
  8:55 - screaming/shouting in stairwell.
  9:00 - loud music from upstairs.
  9:11 - new arrival, door is knocked on repeatedly and loudly. Door slammed.
  9:20 - drunken laughing, screaming in stairwell.
  9:56 - drunken ranting on stairwell.
  10:08 - screaming, singing, ranting on stairwell.
  10:09 - sustained scream on stairwell.
  10:11 - door slam, sustained screaming/shouting on stairwell.
  10:13 - singing on stairwell.
  10:15 - loud conversation on stairwell.
  10:20 - sound of vomiting in back garden. Drunken people now in back garden talking loudly.
  10:32 - Police called.
  10:44 - loud laughing in back garden.
  10:50 - loud conversations in back garden.
  11:28 - loud laughter outside in back garden.
  11:34 - laughter outside in back garden.
  11:45 - shouting outside in back garden.
  11:48 - laughter and sound of damage in back garden.
  11:51 - laughter and shouting in back garden.
  11:58 - two loud bangs heard in back garden, sounds like wall was kicked.
  12:02 - loud conversation in back garden.
  12:04 - loud shouting and banging in back garden.
  12:08 - Police phoned a second time. They mentioned that Police are busy and they didn't turn up the first time.
  12:10 - loud conversation/shouting in stairwell.
  12:15 - loud laughter outside in back garden. Bangs in flat above.
  12:19 - more laughter outside in back garden. Loud door bang.
  12:23 - loud bangs of door, loud conversation in stairwell.
  12:25 - loud door bang.
  12:29 - shouting and laughing in stairwell.
  12:30 - screaming in stairwell.
  12:32 - shouting in stairwell.
  12:34 - loud door slam. Shouting in back garden.
  12:35 - loud door banging.
  12:36 - loud laughter/shouting in back garden.
  12:37 - loud laughter in stairwell. Door banging.
  12:40 - loud bang on floor above.
  12:47 - loud bang on floor above.
  12:52 - loud door bang.
  12:55 - loud conversation in back garden.
  1:05 - loud bang. Object hitting something?
  1:06 - loud conversation in back garden. Loud footfalls on floor above.
  1:09 - loud conversation in back garden.
  1:13 - loud conversation/laughter in back garden.
  1:15 - loud laughter in back garden.
  1:16 - loud bang/loud laughter in back garden.
  1:18 - loud laughter in back garden. Wall being kicked. Screams. Glass smash in background.
  1:22 - loud door slam. Laughter/loud talking in stairwell.
  1:23 - loud door slam. Loud bang on floor above.
  1:24 - more loud laughter outside.
  1:27 - arguments in back garden.
  1:30 - loud conversation in stairwell.
  1:33 - loud conversation and laughter in stairwell.
  1:36 - loud conversation and laughter in stairwell. Loud door bang.
  1:38 - door bang.
  1:39 - door bang.
  1:51 - three loud bangs on door.
  1:52 - argument on stairwell. Loud shouting.
  1:58 - loud argument/conversation in stairwell.
  2:01 - Police called for a third time.
  2:09 - Loud argument in front garden. Talk about the back door being kicked in.
  2:13 - Fight in front garden.
  2:17 - Police arrive.

From what I can deduce, I'm guessing that the teenage kids of the arsehole upstairs decided to have a Halloween party when he wasn't in the flat, proceeded to invite all their teenage friends. I phoned the police three times, they came on the second and final time just as the kids were arguing about the back door they had kicked in.

Tenancy Agreement FAIL. Hopefully the dad gets evicted, because this has affected a lot of people. I've lived here for almost three years and it's never, ever been this bad. It did remind me though that I might well be better off living in a proper house rather than this flat, affected by all and sundry.

Happy Halloween!