Neighbours complained, Landlord tells me i cant exercise in my own home...

LAEllis

I don't know about the state of downstairs to be honest, I've never been in there. The smoke/smell wafts up through the flooring i don't know the root cause but it seems to come up through the skirting area and near most joints the best i can tell. I kinda hard to pin point where a smell comes from.

Norman_Castle

As i said, I'm aware of the issues with it but its not unreasonable to use it at the least disruptive times as its my hobby.

I suspect you would find it unreasanable if you were on the receiving end of the noise. As a victim of noise nusiance yourself I am suprised you cannot understand why your neighbours are complaining.

LAEllis

Norman_Castle wrote: »

I suspect you would find it unreasanable if you were on the receiving end of the noise. As a victim of noise nusiance yourself I am suprised you cannot understand why your neighbours are complaining.

I would find it unreasonable if it was A: excessive and B: conducted at anti-social hours.
e.g. the issue of them door slamming at 2:30am every single morning bar weekends.

Ulfar

The problem is it probably is excessive given the quality of the conversion. While the sound may not seem like much to you the noise is probably being amplified by the floor and ceiling.

Some activities aren't suited to flats. I used to own an ex-mod flat that was very solid the floors and ceilings were a concrete section, it took some very loud noise to make any impression.

The one exception was upstairs banging doors late at night when they were having an argument, sometimes a certain sound will just travel.

On a side note if your flat is a house conversion and has been done badly I don't think I would want to be running on a treadmill anyway, you might end up downstairs.

LAEllis

Ulfar wrote: »

The problem is it probably is excessive given the quality of the conversion. While the sound may not seem like much to you the noise is probably being amplified by the floor and ceiling.

Some activities aren't suited to flats. I used to own an ex-mod flat that was very solid the floors and ceilings were a concrete section, it took some very loud noise to make any impression.

The one exception was upstairs banging doors late at night when they were having an argument, sometimes a certain sound will just travel.

On a side note if your flat is a house conversion and has been done badly I don't think I would want to be running on a treadmill anyway, you might end up downstairs.

Fully understood, i know i could be mistaken about the noise though i don't for the life of me see how it could be an unbearable intrusion or anything like that. All i really want to know is:

is it enforceable by the landlord that i do not use it under both the T&C's i stated in post #28 (page 2)?

am i being unreasonable in suggesting that i would only use it certain hours of the day so as to reduce the potential disturbance? e.g. 12-3pm or something like that

devotee

I think you are within your rights to do whatever from 9-6, as far as I know if you were do do drilling or renovations, you'd be ok to do them at those hours.
And keep complaining about downstairs, the rubbish they leave in your shared garden is not on, and seeing that neither of you cares for good neighbourly relations, I'd take the rubbish bags and dump them in front of their door, maybe then they'll get the message.

devotee

And then move!

LAEllis

devotee wrote: »

I think you are within your rights to do whatever from 9-6, as far as I know if you were do do drilling or renovations, you'd be ok to do them at those hours.
And keep complaining about downstairs, the rubbish they leave in your shared garden is not on, and seeing that neither of you cares for good neighbourly relations, I'd take the rubbish bags and dump them in front of their door, maybe then they'll get the message.

I hope that's the case, its an expensive piece of equipment and i'd actually like to use it believe it or not

The rubbish issue is plain and straight forward, they tried to deny it was theirs but we pointed out the Turkish brands of food and let them know that neither myself, my partner or her two pet degu's can speak or read Turkish so it clearly wasn't ours.

I would dump it but it would only stink out the hallway and in turn our flat plus the foxes get at it pretty quickly and i dont fancy clearing it up only to dump it again.

Here is a link showing the last picture i took of front garden: Link they were quite happy to walk past this morning after morning.

lalaland11 wrote: »

you think your downstairs neighbours are bad the couple below my dad moan about him walking around his flat :rotfl:

the EHO wont do nothing, i lived in an upstairs flat when my son was first born, we had a young lad down stairs who smoked drugs the smell rose up and we could smell it very faintly in our flat he used to also play heavy metal from 11pm til 5am i made several complaints and they never did anything (in the end i sent OH down with a hammer wrong i know but with a new born baby and no sleep i snapped, this bdid work tho no problems ever again)

although when he complained about my son crying i had a letter straight away asking me to try and consider my neighbour :mad:


so any way back to OP i would say carry on doing as you like, they obviously are. never no you may be lucky and annoy them that much they pack up and leave

Sorry to hear that, if they complained about something like that i would politely tell them to @:%£ off.

I would love to carry on as normal and jog on it at all hours but i respect my landlord and the position he's in because of their complaints. i want if possible to work something out without having to cite my rights etc.

erdd2

779 wrote: »

Just move!!! Get out of there. Flexibility is a great benefit of renting, - find somewhere else!

Taking written notes of all the problems, complaining, bad atmosphere, - f**k all that, - just move.

ye just move and incur the issues and costs rather than exact your rights....the new Britain...the british way....find a resolution around the perpetrator.....

Emmzi

erdd2 wrote: »

ye just move and incur the issues and costs rather than exact your rights....the new Britain...the british way....find a resolution around the perpetrator.....

Fixing it would involve compromise on use of treadmill by OP which he clesarly does not want to do. He would be better in a downstairs flat.