Should I ask my neighbors before putting up wooden wind chimes?

How wonderfully considerate! Yes, I think it’s great to ask.

It would be kind of you to ask them to let you know if the chimes bother them. Tell them you are putting them up, but would they please tell you if they are bothered by them.
I wish my neighbors would ask me! ;)

Me, too. I have difficult neighbors with whom I share the maintenance on a long (.3 mile) dirt driveway. It has always been very tricky.

@ubersiren: You can move next door to me any time.

You sound like such a nice neighbor! I would think they would have no problem with the wooden ones, since they aren’t very loud.

I, too, applaud you. Wish MY neighbor had asked before he hung up The Great Gongs.

I have to tell you that my neighbor’s back porch wind chimes were right outside our bedroom. They drove me mad particularly during storms.

They were metal no wooden, but I wish that I had thought of stealing them! They were metal not wooden.

I think @Harp nailed that one; that’s just so great that you would consider asking!

If I was your neighbor I probably wouldn’t care so long as I couldn’t hear them when trying to sleep but you’d sure win points for asking in advance.

Yes I think it would be great to ask your neighbours. I personally hate wind chimes, absolutely loathe them. Others love them.

If somebody had asked me and I said that I prefer not to, and they has listened I would have loved the, If I had been a wind chime lover I would have liked them for asking too.

To me, it seems like you can’t loose if you ask.

You’re entirely too nice. I wouldn’t.

I would ask and did. We have some very noisy windchimes and I checked with my neighbor who said he loves hearing them.

I think it all depends on where you live and how close your house is to your neighbors house. if you live in a condo or apartment, i would definetely ask, because of the closeness. in any event, your neighbors will have more respect for you, simply because you asked first.

@john65pennington We live in a cluster of town houses (hard to describe what I mean). If we were farther apart, I wouldn’t much worry, but each neighbor’s door is approximately 30 ft away.

ubersiren, I think this is a wonderful gesture! It troubles me that in so many neighborhoods nowadays, “neighbors” are people who seem to avoid rather than help each other. That’s not the way it used to be.

@Owl I avoid my neighbors because I don’t have to be lovey-dovey with every person on the block – but I will always help them if necessary

We just bought a house we don’t live in full time.
We asked the neighbors before putting up windchimes, and take them down when we are gone.

Wow…. you are an excellent neighbour! You can move in next to me right away!

You really don’t have to ask your neighbours about this sort of thing, but it’s great that you thought about it.

That’s actually extremely thoughtful of you. It’s not like you’re going over to try to get them to buy things or to shove your beliefs down their throat. This visit would show them that you actually CARE about them and that they live around at least one decent person! Go right ahead.

I happen to like wind chimes, so I don’t really care if my neighbours have them. I also can’t see any reason why anyone who lives with me would have a problem with a neighbour actually taking the time out of his or her day to ask if they were okay with it. I wouldn’t even have a problem with that. We’d probably just think he or she was a nice person who cares about how his or her actions affect his or her neighours.

Aside from a royal grouch who hates everybody who even tries to be nice to him or her, who wouldn’t want a neighbour like you? Even if I hated wind chimes, I’d have something nice to associate them with after that, and may even say it’s okay with me, just because of how thoughtful you were.

it would be considerate to ask but you dont have to.if theyre wooden chimes then you should be good w/o asking.