Neighbour's dryer again

Errata

Yeah I know, it occurs to me that perhaps I need some counselling/assertiveness training.

Not necessarily. Invite the neighbour round so she can hear the racket her dryer is making in your house. That gives you a starting point for a discussion about you can't hear her telly, music etc but noise the dryer is making is driving you bonkers.

joyfull

I feel for you. Sometimes a low/rumble sound can somehow get into your bones & drive you nuts.

You really cannot not communicate with your neighbour. The discomfort of possible confrontation cannot be worse than the effect on your life. Have you thought of writing a really respectful letter detailing the problem & asking for some kind of working compromise.

Please communicate with them for your own well being. Wishing you well!

paulwf

I think Horace may have hit the nail on the head given your later post OP...sounds like they could be running a business from home. Even with venting problems and school uniform you don't need to run a tumble drier for 50 hours a week!

shellsuit

Are you sure it's a tumble drier, and not something else?

Just wondering, as that's what you were told, so you didn't actually see it for yourself.

missindecisive

yes it does seem a bit weird! im not convinced its a tumble dryer! though im not a clue what else it could be! who on earth would run a tumble dryer for that many hours a day?

Arthurian

To clarify post #11, here's some quotes from the link I posted:-

"Yes, i can hear my ruck fan in the room below but the fan is not noise insulated in any way. Its more of a low pitched hum you can hear but that may be because i use a dimmer switch to adjust speed and they are known to inrease noise of fans."

"suspend your fan from your wooden rafters using hooks and elestic to deaden any vibrating noises...pillows on top of them help too, or even placing the entire fan inside a carboard box with the pillows etc on top, then that way your neighbours won't hear it when they're in their loft either."

"I can hear most of it laying in bed at night. It's 3 fans in all plus the pump and air pump. The air pump I had to suspend from a rafter cos that is LOUD! "

"the 4" bathroom fans that I was usign ... were too noisy, and now I've replaced them with 120mm PC fans "

tiamai_d

paulwf wrote: »

Tell them to use a washing line and if it needs finishing off briefly in the tumbler to do so before 10pm.

If someone came to my house and told me to use a washing line, I'd tell them where they could shove their washing line, and pole, Vlad style. :cool:

OP, you need to go and speak to them. Ask if they could please have the tumble dryer off by 10pm (or 11pm). If they say no, then you can go and complain. But there is nothing you can do without first speaking to them.

You can buy noise reduction tiles (or polystyrene ones work too) that could maybe be placed under and around the dryer, so you could look into that and offer it as a solution?

Deep_In_Debt

Gosh. If she has kids and using the tumble drier at that time of night...isn't it keeping them awake?

I live in a similar type of property and the walls are like lettuce leaves! I had problems with neighbours playing music a while back (teenagers...their dad works abroad during the week). It wasn't necessarily loud but it was that constant "beat" that kept me awake.