Annoying Neighbour! Help Needed!

Fire_Fox

Lish wrote: »

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

Is your neighbour supposed to utilise her psychic powers to know what the bashing the ceiling is all about? Humming isn't usually loud, so she probably thinks it can't be heard. Behave like an adult and write a polite note or have a quiet word.

bitsandpieces

barnaby-bear wrote: »

To be honest humming in your own home although odd is entirely reasonable.... it's a cr&p flat with cr&p insulation....

Yes - and if you bang on the ceiling when someone's trying to be considerate (e.g. she may be listening to music on phones to keep the noise down) there is a tendency to think 'sod it' and get the subwoofer back out :eek:

If you can hear her humming, can she hear your conversations, TV, radio etc? Have a polite chat - maybe point out that the insulation seems lousy, and ask if she hears you too loudly.

ognum

Why have so many people lost the art of simple polite conversation? Why cant you just pop upstairs be friendly and talk. If you hear her she may well be hering you and annoyed with you too. Just talk!

MoaningMyrtle

It might be an extractor fan or something if it is permanently on?

I am lucky enough to be woken up early most mornings, not by my own children but by next door's four children very noisily getting up, squabbling, fighting, practising flute/recorder/drums etc. Then their Mother starts.

Errata

Can you hear her TV, hoover, washing machine ? If you can't hear these you can't hear her humming because she isn't. All of these rack up a higher decibel level than humming.

ZiggyStardust_2

When we had recently moved into our flat the man upstairs (whom I have grown to loathe over the nearly 2 years we have been here) knocked on our door and said "I don't know if you realise but I can hear you switching your lights on and off" ?! and "I understand there are two of you so you have to shut your bathroom door but I can hear that as well." Weirdo. We've heard him doing some very strange things :mad: and we're actually pretty quiet! :mad:

kittiej

Perhaps she's auditioning for X Factor and wants to get some practise at tuning in ?

mizzbiz

This thread had me cracked up laughing - maybe too much tia maria - I don't know.

What I found most bizzarre is that you said when she has a friend round, she only stops humming when she is talking, so does that mean she's humming when her friend is talking?

I've never heard of anything like this although at uni I shared a house with a really strange, geeky guy who lived in the room above mine. He used to come in from work and throw hings around and yell in a really angry way, although he was always alone. And he worked out in his room really heavily, often whilst having angry outbursts. Strangest guy i've ever met. Lived in the same house but we barely said two words to each other, I ws really frightened of him.