Flat dwellers: how much neighbour noise do you suffer from?

Foofighter

moneysavingmumofone wrote: »

we live in flats, (no idea how old:o ) we're first floor,(2 flats) theres one floor below us (1 flat and half of a shop, we're above the shop ) and one above. (2 flats) we can always hear the outside doors being opened/shut as well as the interior doors (into the seperate hallways) we've got used to that though! we rarely hear 'everyday' noises from upstairs like walking etc but for the past few months theyve been blaring their music out at 6am!! this wakes my son up every morning! (hes only 2 yrs old) its so loud i can hear the actual words of the song/presenter! do you think a polite note through the door would be ok? i dont really fancy going up there and 'confronting' them:o

Yes I would send a note up and see what happens. I lived in an old 70's style flat years back and the guy below who worked night shift and would come in at 5:30am and stick his music on :mad: I used to bang on my bedroom floor! He never gave up so eventually I went downstairs and had it out with him, I never heard another thing after that and he apologised. Sometimes it helps when they realise they have actual real people living above or below them!! (Unless they are inconsiderate !!!!! and carry on)

otter1_2

Former downstairs neighbours were media types and theirs was the 'party flat' which all their mates came back to. Didn't help that they had sole use of the garden, right underneath our bedroom window, and it is decked, so all the noise is magnified upwards! On one occasion I had a very important meeting at work the following day, for which I had to be up at 6 a.m. (and I am so not a morning person!) Needless to say the music (and shouting to be heard over the music) started at 10 p.m. and finished at 3.30 a.m. It was the third night in a row of loud music and someone found me asleep in my office in the middle of the afternoon!

Environmental Health were incredibly difficult to get hold of, despite us living in possibly the busiest night-noise borough in the country. When I eventually made them come out one night, having pestered them on the phone for the best part of two hours, they were shocked at the noise and sent the people downstairs a warning letter the very next day. Two months later the place was up for sale!

New neighbours much better, although they had a party last weekend and me and OH got nightmare flashbacks. The music was so loud that when I went down at midnight to ask them to turn it down a bit, it took them 20 minutes to come to the door, and that was only because someone was leaving - they never heard me knocking.

And people on the HPC thread think I'm mad for wanting to move. . .

General_Mayhem

I lived in a ground floor Victorian conversion in London 'till recently. Lovely couple upstairs, never had a problem in 2 years. Then they moved out.

A German couple moved in, installed laminate floors, and they obviously had a "lively" (and noisey) sex life.

We moved out within 4 weeks!

Turnbull2000

I live on the first floor of a 4 storey Georgian terrace. I can just about hear the bloke upstairs snoring on the odd occasion. The biggest noise pests are probably the seagulls.

But other than that, not a peep!

drc

The last flat we lived in was in a block of old art-deco flats. We could hear the couple above us arguing to the extent that we could hear every word crystal clearly.

The block that we live in now is from the 1960s and we can hear the television of the 95 year old man who lives below us to the extent that we don't need to put our television on to watch the news He is completely deaf though and has the volume set to insane.

EdInvestor

It's pretty normal for converted flat leases to require carpeted floors.

I am surprised that lessees don't seem to be enforcing their leases, or asking the landlord to do so if they are tenants.

Get help to do so here.It should be routine.

https://www.lease-advice.org.uk

WTF?_2

loveandlight wrote: »

We will now have to rent out our flat but I am very worried about our tenants also suffering from noise problems and moving out and us not being able to earn a proper income from it financially. I feel so trapped whatever way we try to resolve the situation.

You could always try finding the noisiest potential renters you can find

goldbyron

Used to live in a 1890’s flat in east London – absolutely terrible sound proofing which led to me moving out. Could hear absolutely everything – when someones snores next door wake you up in the night and you can hear people going to the loo – well that is the limit.

Live in a Victorian conversion now and neighbours been there a long time. There was an issue for a couple of months with music. However gentle talking later this has not happened for about 6 months now. Having a good relationship with your neighbour helps both in noise being kept down and also it is less irritating if you do hear them! Fortunately my partner lives in the top flat above me so I can escape there and be assured no one is in the flat below so very peaceful indeed. The walls to the next building are very thick and hardly hear a thing. As originally a house this would have been okay but wooden floors to separate neighbours is pretty awful and you are dependant on getting on with them. I plan to buy a house in a couple of years and hope my neighbour downstairs remains in the flat until then! She has been there 6 years and the next door neighbours range from 14-20 years so people hang around. I would rent out my other room if it came to it and just live in my partners flat above!

115K

My neighbours make lots of noise and used to keep us awake at night having sex *vomits* (and the woman is obviously faking it.:rolleyes:)

Now they have a baby and its crying wakes us up sometimes but at least the couple are not having sex anymore.:p

becky170

I used to be woken up at 3am in my old flat by my neighbours having very loud sex. What was worse is that it carried on for well over an hour. It used to drive me up the wall, but luckily they moved out after a couple of months. My new flat is mainly ok but the neighbours two floors down have a dog which sometimes barks for ages which drives me slightly mad, but on the whole it's quite quiet :rolleyes: