Annoying Neighbour! Help Needed!

Lish_2

Hi guys,
This is probably not an unusual post of sorts but I have been in my new flat for a week now and although I love it, my upstairs neighbour is making it miserable! I am not an easily-peeved tenant because I quite like hearing people walking about or going up and down the stairs- as I live on my own, its quite comforting to know there are people around me! It's just that the neighbour above is constantly 'humming' to herself (at least this is what I think it is!) its so loud that I can hear it above my TV sound and I know its her and not the heating system or something because I hear her get up at 6.30am and start walking around (humming a tune) and then she leaves about 7am when it stops and then she gets home about 6pm and she starts it again! She seems to be humming the same tune constantly and if she has a friend round when she talks the humming stops and then when shes finished talking it starts again! You may think this thread is a joke- but I swear it is not. I am sat at work now dreading going home to this terrible noise again! What can I do?!? :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
I have never seen this woman and not to keen to knock on her door but if i have to I obviously will, I bashed my ceiling this morning a couple of times with a broom when she got up and started to hum and it sounded like she stopped to listen to what the banging was but then carried on regardless! In fact, it sounded even louder!
I dont really want to continue to bash my ceiling every time she starts humming because it could end up being 'noise wars' and before I know it it may escalate and become a full blown neighbours from hell thing! Please can anyone offer me some advice? Im at my witts end!
Thanks, Lish x

PasturesNew

Very odd... somebody that hums every waking moment. Very odd.

Lish_2

Tell me something I dont know!........

PasturesNew

What you need is somebody with you, to hear it too.... then for them to creep upstairs and see if they can hear it through her door. Then they come downstairs ... and then you go up there and ask her if she can hear "an odd noise", see if you can still hear it when she opens her door.

I am at a loss to understand how you can hear her humming. I can understand footsteps on the floor being annoying, I live in a 25 year old flat that doesn't have solid floors, it's all wooden ... and upstairs laid down laminate flooring and I could hear her phone buzz when she had it on vibrate and received a text. I also hear every moment of her sex life. But I never hear noises like talking, TV, etc.

ceebeeby

Are you sure it's not a radio or something, that sounds like humming through ceilings? I'm just finding it incredible that someone can hum so loundly as to be heard through the bricks / plaster - yes to screaming, but I just tried to hum loundly, and it's quite difficult

princeofpounds

Go and speak to them. Better than bashing with a broom, as it's not really fair to do that unless they know there is a noise issue in the first place. You don't have to accuse them initially, say that there is this odd, incessant humming sound you can hear very clearly.

pie81

princeofpounds wrote: »

Go and speak to them. Better than bashing with a broom, as it's not really fair to do that unless they know there is a noise issue in the first place. You don't have to accuse them initially, say that there is this odd, incessant humming sound you can hear very clearly.

I agree. Phrase it innocently eg "I've been hearing this strange humming noise almost all the time, I just wanted to find out if you can hear it too, as I'm trying to work out what it is?" If it is her causing it then hopefully that will get the message across that you can hear and it's annoying you.

Zazen999

Ok - single lady, humming, stops when she has company or goes out, erm?????

Sure it's not buzzing rather than humming???

BlondeHeadOn

Zazen999 wrote: »

Ok - single lady, humming, stops when she has company or goes out, erm?????

Sure it's not buzzing rather than humming???

What, all the time????

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Zazen999

BlondeHeadOn wrote: »

What, all the time????

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Well, it might be a dry patch if you get my drift......:o

Lish_2

Sorry to burst your bubble but it is definately humming and not buzzing that I can hear! lol. But seriously, this is pretty much all the time when she is in! That would be a serious health problem and not a dry patch if it were buzzing!
(Funnily my boyfriend reiterated a similar joke!) :rotfl:

I really dont want to have to face her in the hope she 'catches my drift' if I ask her if she can hear the noise. Although I am starting to face up to the fact that I might need to get a friend round for a bottle of wine to build up the dutch courage to knock on the door and tell her to stop! Otherwise I am in danger of putting a hole through my ceiling if I carry on bashing it although I am still open to any good suggestions on how to end this problem! Keep 'em coming!.......