Neighbour downstairs complaining - Your help needed

olly300

The only time I would say be nice to a neighbour if they complained about everyday noise that complies with your lease (not your tenancy AST but the actual flat lease) is if they were ill otherwise they can foxtrot oscar.

Unfortunately some people are spoilt by the neighbours before them who are never in so they get use not being able to hear any noise around them in flats.

Next time she complains about you hoovering or doing any housework then politely tell her it's everyday noise which you are legally allowed to make before 9pm and point out if she wants to make a big deal about it that you can hear her clock and when she goes to the toilet.

TBeckett100

if it was me, I would put some bass music on during the day when going to work and let her enjoy it. It will be kept legally quiet but would just be enough to send her over the edge month in and month out. Also, i would put the same track on repeat, just to add to the torture.

olly300

TBeckett100 wrote: »

if it was me, I would put some bass music on during the day when going to work and let her enjoy it. It will be kept legally quiet but would just be enough to send her over the edge month in and month out. Also, i would put the same track on repeat, just to add to the torture.

You Sir (or Madam) are evil.

I've had to tell 2 past neighbours to turn their music up or down to avoid that bass sound.

They looked at me weirdly because I said turn it up or down.

Old_Git

ask your neighbour to do the hoovering for you when you are at work . win win situation

anotherginger

mrcol1000 wrote: »

There are no laws on the amount of noise or the time you can make noise as its all relative.

That's incorrect. Statutory noise nuisance is covered by Section 79 (g) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

And in relation to evening hoovering, I think it's a pain when the flat above me hoover in the evenings as I use that time to wind down. In fact, I was having a chat with them one day and asked if they could maybe not hoover late on weekday evenings. They were completely fine with it, they hadn't realised it was loud enough to hear it over my tv and actualy apologised.

You can't live in a flat the same way as you can in a detached house, you need to be aware of those around you.

mostlycheerful

Originally Posted by PasturesNew
Ask if one of you can go downstairs to hers while the other hoovers upstairs, so you can hear the noise for yourself.

Quite often it's noisier downstairs than in your own flat. Noise transference and all that.

You might be staggered/horrified when you hear it yourself.

sinbad182 : They have to hoover at some point, even if the noise is somehow terrible below. The times specified are perfectly reasonable, and any problems with sound insulation are not their fault.

Pastures, you may not have noticed this troll's recent history but it's - sinbad182 - a repeat serial abuser troll and it's had about 10 to 15 posts deleted by the moderators recently due to swearing, naked aggression, rudeness, and nastiness and a lot of weird angry stuff. It's a very sad character with little or nothing to offer. It was also outed by tbs624 as a troll when it invaded the anti landlord thread started by artfullodger and asked for an anti tenants threads. So it's a wrong'un and doesn't understand this forum at all. Some of the time it's sensible but a lot of the time it's just on one, expelling inflicting its nastiness and stupidity.

sinbad182

I also think that everyone should be aware MostlyCheerful is insane, and is stalking my post history because he is obsessed with me. He keeps claiming im a troll because I swore at him, after this nasty little racist described Bulgarian people as:

''Backwards, third world, savage, barbarian scum''

MC, Get help. You've clearly lost the plot and I think your riddled brain is failing on you. Also, get out of my post history you stalker. Its really wierd.

Nut job.

MonkeySaving?

Is it elderly?

mostlycheerful

stop swearing and trolling, sinbad, and make some positive contributions to the forum instead of being gratuitously inanely rude to me and lots of other people

Oldernotwiser

Sorry if I've missed this but do you have carpets or wooden/laminate floors? If the latter, is that allowed in your lease?