27 replies to this topic

[sonjaf]

Not sure if playing a saxaphone right now, is very neighbourly !!

although it is beautifully done, its very intrusive

[percysybil]

it could be worse - imagine if your neighbour was learning to play the drums !

[shipbroker]

We had a late friend who was very deaf and he had a radio in the awning which came on at 0600 everyday.....once we witnessed his neighbour taking him to task about it..his reponse was that the red light on the neighbours dashboard flashed all night ( as they do!) and that needed him to wake up early..........

geoff

[Blue Louis]

We had a visitor once at Manzac Ferme and both he and she were more than somewhat hard of hearing, they had a large Hymer.
Immediately on arrival he erected 2 large sat dishes, strange I thought!
Then a bit later on, he sat in the back of the caravan with his TV on almost full volume watching some sport and she sat at the front watching Coronation Street on hers also at nigh on full volume.
I am not kidding you that even over 100yds away the other side of our large granite house in the front garden, the noise was still very loud.

The problem was that neither of them thought their noise was causing any concern to anyone !!  They were a very nice couple though.

[Doosan]

percysybil, on 26 August 2012 - 10:33 AM, said:

it could be worse - imagine if your neighbour was learning to play the drums !

We did have this with a neighbour in the 70s.Their son was in a group and started to practice the drums up in his loft.
Managed to sort it out after about a month.They honestly thought we could not hear him playing

Doosan

[FishyDave]

sonjaf, on 26 August 2012 - 10:03 AM, said:

Not sure if playing a saxaphone right now, is very neighbourly !!

although it is beautifully done, its very intrusive

We had one at Tything Barn this week, though they only played for a couple of 5-10 minute sessions a day, so it wasn't particularly intrusive. We originally thought it was a clarinet (it turned out to be a sax) so we nicknamed the player 'Squidward.'

[RogerL]

TV/radio volume for those hard of hearing can be a problem - both SWMBO and I have suffered hearing loss, for different reasons, so we tend to have the volume higher than most.

But we're aware of the potential problem it might cause on a caravan site and I often check outside to find out if it's even audible there.

On a recent solo trip to Edinburgh, staying in a Travelodge, we noticed that the volume wouldn't go above 40% on the screen scale - presumably to "protect" the neighbouring rooms - we just sat nearer the TV.

[Chapmag]

RogerL, on 28 August 2012 - 07:20 AM, said:

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But we're aware of the potential problem it might cause on a caravan site and I often check outside to find out if it's even audible there.....

Roger,

How does this work if you, as you stated, have impaired hearing????

G

[RogerL]

Chapmag, on 28 August 2012 - 08:09 AM, said:

Roger,

How does this work if you, as you stated, have impaired hearing????

G

It's impaired, not totally missing.

If I can JUST hear the TV standing outside by the caravan window, but not hear it at all from 2 metres away - then I regard that as acceptable as I can hear normal conversation from more than 2 metres.

It does raise a question, however, as to how hearing impaired people get the volume acceptable to others - especially as many don't know, or more likely won't admit, that they're hard of hearing.

BL's example of two people with TVs blaring away is unacceptable - I use sound-cancelling fully enclosed headphones at home so we can both use TV but on different channels.

[indoors]

Hi all,
Roger you just beat me to it with your last line,I was going to ask why don't people who wish/need to have TV/radio on high vollume not use ear phones most jackplugs are universal nowadays.
indoors.
PS: Blue Louis is a salesman through and through, he sells peace and quiet then accepts two blaring tv's in one 'van. Bet you wouldn't allow it nowadays at your
www.la-tournerie.com site in the Dordogne Phill.

[Blue Louis]

indoors, on 28 August 2012 - 11:13 AM, said:

Bet you wouldn't allow it nowadays at your www.la-tournerie.com site in the Dordogne Phill.

No way !

Wonderous and I hope to have as complaint free life as possible and we know only too well from our experiences at Manzac and at sites throughout the UK that noise causes more stress and complaints amongst the caravanning public than almost anything else.

[Bristles]

In 1970 I and my fiance together with a friend and his fiance went camping in Denmark. We arrived very late at a camp site and it was very dark. Our friends spotted a space either side of a large tent and being so late we thought that we would just roughly set up for the night in our two person tent's and sort ourselves out in the morning, Allan and his fiance pitched on one side of the large tent and we pitched on the other side  Well, there was loud music coming from the large tent to our surprise at that time of night and Allan said that if they don't turn off their radio by the time we go to bed he was going to say something. We got into our sleeping bag's and the music was still blaring out then all of a sudden I heard Allan shout, "Achtung" then a few moment's later, "silenzio" then a few moment's later, "shut your bl**dy row" hey presto the music suddenly stopped. When we arose in the morning the people in the large tent apologised for the loud music, it turned out that they were Brit's! we all had a good chuckle.

[John Douglas]

indoors, on 28 August 2012 - 11:13 AM, said:

why don't people who wish/need to have TV/radio on high vollume not use ear phones

This is what I have.   Wireless ones.   Although my hearing is not too great I find TV speech muffled and sometimes difficult to follow without the headphones.

[Bill Lord]

RogerL, on 28 August 2012 - 07:20 AM, said:

TV/radio volume for those hard of hearing can be a problem - both SWMBO and I have suffered hearing loss, for different reasons, so we tend to have the volume higher than most.

But we're aware of the potential problem it might cause on a caravan site and I often check outside to find out if it's even audible there.

On a recent solo trip to Edinburgh, staying in a Travelodge, we noticed that the volume wouldn't go above 40% on the screen scale - presumably to "protect" the neighbouring rooms - we just sat nearer the TV.

Earphones are the solution to being hard of hearing.