Inconsiderate flat above neighbours have pushed me too far now!!!!

samanthag

I would have woken up and at 6 or 7 this morning and put my hi fi on full blast and i bet they wouldnt like the boot on the other foot

McKneff

It was a mistake, she went out and left the stereo on, yes, not very nice but if you go in with the attitude in your post you are going to alienate the relationship anyway.

Polite but stern - she is not a child and you are going to sound ver pompous.

Take it as it comes, just be polite, its happended and it was a mistake, she will probably be ver apologetic.

pondskater_2

samanthag wrote: »

I would have woken up and at 6 or 7 this morning and put my hi fi on full blast and i bet they wouldnt like the boot on the other foot

Then they phone the police and you end up the baddy:rotfl:

Ida_Notion

Way back in the early eighties, me and my ex lived in the middle flat of a shared house. The neighbours below would go out and leave their TV on all night to give the impression that they were in (burglar deterrent, as mentioned above), which was just about bearable until closedown. If you're too young to remember closedown, it would probably be helpful to know that it involved the channel going off air at around midnight with the playing of the National Anthem, followed by the most hideous, flat, high-pitched screeching sound which went on all night long.

One evening, after one too many nights spent with our heads under pillows, the neighbours below were in and the neighbours above were out. Motioning me to keep very quiet, my husband turned the lights out and opened our sash window very slightly at the bottom so that it couldn't be seen to be open from outside. He then got an old cotton reel, tied it to a length of cotton and dangled it out of the window, tapping it against theirs.

As soon as he heard someone get up from the sofa and walk across the floor, he withdrew it again. This procedure was repeated once more, and after this the downstairs neighbours were opening the back door and looking outside (our windows faced onto a secure back yard), and then coming inside again to knock on all the doors in the house to see if anybody else was in. Which we weren't

After this, my ex briefly stood on a chair with a piece of burning newspaper next to the smoke alarm in our room. Nobody ever panicked or believed that there was a fire when the smoke alarms went off in that house due to them all being stupidly positioned right next to the cooker. In the absence of smoke and with the house empty, phantom smoke alarm could only mean... phantom chef. We listened as our neighbour turned off the alarm at the box in the hallway, paced up and down the house at speed and then retreated to his sofa.

Ten minutes later, they had another visit from The Disembodied Cotton Reel and then we went to bed. I think they'd moved out inside of a fortnight. I'm not particularly proud of all this, but lengthy exposure to 'closedown' can do terrible things to a person

Humphrey10

coinxoperated wrote: »

Why don't NORMAL people rent flats?

Because of the noise. I don't understand how anyone can live in a flat, it must be horrible hearing all that noise all the time. So I imagine you'll get a high proportion of people who live there who are too drunk or stoned or deaf to be bothered by the noise, or to poor to afford anywhere else. I really can't see why someone would live in a flat with poor noise insulation out of choice.

Cat501

Humphrey10 wrote: »

Because of the noise. I don't understand how anyone can live in a flat, it must be horrible hearing all that noise all the time. So I imagine you'll get a high proportion of people who live there who are too drunk or stoned or deaf to be bothered by the noise, or to poor to afford anywhere else. I really can't see why someone would live in a flat with poor noise insulation out of choice.

Hmm. So deaf or poor people are abnormal eh?

adelight

Humphrey10 wrote: »

or to poor to afford anywhere else.

I think that's the reason in most cases! Especially in London! In my area it's either converted old houses which are incredibly noisy (doesn't help that most landlords put in mdf walls) or a council high rise unless you've got £2000 a month for a 2 bed terrace.
I used to live next to a woman who would sing and clap at all hours of the night but was impossible to talk to as she would refuse to open the door and not leave her flat if anyone was in the hall. Then the basement level of bedsits was slowly taken over by Polish people with entire families and groups of men living in each room. And then they started dealing to people living on other floors so the whole building stank of weed. Bleeding nightmare :rotfl: Of course I tried talking to my landlord but he didn't care how many people were in a room as long as he got his rent and I didn't fancy taking on 20 of them!

OP, have you spoke to the woman yet?

coinxoperated

McKneff wrote: »

It was a mistake, she went out and left the stereo on, yes, not very nice but if you go in with the attitude in your post you are going to alienate the relationship anyway.

Polite but stern - she is not a child and you are going to sound ver pompous.

Take it as it comes, just be polite, its happended and it was a mistake, she will probably be ver apologetic.

No no it's gone for weeks. Its generally 6pm it goes on in the week and ends around 11pm-12midnight. This just went on and on and on and was super loud. I would be pretty laid back if it was a one off, I really would, but this woman has no consideration for anyone else

coinxoperated

Humphrey10 wrote: »

Because of the noise. I don't understand how anyone can live in a flat, it must be horrible hearing all that noise all the time. So I imagine you'll get a high proportion of people who live there who are too drunk or stoned or deaf to be bothered by the noise, or to poor to afford anywhere else. I really can't see why someone would live in a flat with poor noise insulation out of choice.

Because its cheap. I live on my own at 22 in a (underpaid and overworked) full time job with no children. Maybe if I had a few and gave up my job I would get myself a house! Where I live, a house is around 550-600 per month + extra expenses such as higher Council tax. Where I live is 300 per month. For a low income person, its the best I could get.

coinxoperated

Ida_Notion wrote: »

Way back in the early eighties, me and my ex lived in the middle flat of a shared house. The neighbours below would go out and leave their TV on all night to give the impression that they were in (burglar deterrent, as mentioned above), which was just about bearable until closedown. If you're too young to remember closedown, it would probably be helpful to know that it involved the channel going off air at around midnight with the playing of the National Anthem, followed by the most hideous, flat, high-pitched screeching sound which went on all night long.

One evening, after one too many nights spent with our heads under pillows, the neighbours below were in and the neighbours above were out. Motioning me to keep very quiet, my husband turned the lights out and opened our sash window very slightly at the bottom so that it couldn't be seen to be open from outside. He then got an old cotton reel, tied it to a length of cotton and dangled it out of the window, tapping it against theirs.

As soon as he heard someone get up from the sofa and walk across the floor, he withdrew it again. This procedure was repeated once more, and after this the downstairs neighbours were opening the back door and looking outside (our windows faced onto a secure back yard), and then coming inside again to knock on all the doors in the house to see if anybody else was in. Which we weren't

After this, my ex briefly stood on a chair with a piece of burning newspaper next to the smoke alarm in our room. Nobody ever panicked or believed that there was a fire when the smoke alarms went off in that house due to them all being stupidly positioned right next to the cooker. In the absence of smoke and with the house empty, phantom smoke alarm could only mean... phantom chef. We listened as our neighbour turned off the alarm at the box in the hallway, paced up and down the house at speed and then retreated to his sofa.

Ten minutes later, they had another visit from The Disembodied Cotton Reel and then we went to bed. I think they'd moved out inside of a fortnight. I'm not particularly proud of all this, but lengthy exposure to 'closedown' can do terrible things to a person

This is fabulous. I may create a hatch that I can just let steam through into her bedroom every now and then... Freak her out a bit! :rotfl: