Ground floor flat noise

tigzem

I live in a 1960's council built block, I'm on the first floor and the noise level from upstairs is very dependent on the people living there. Upstairs is a private rented flat but since I've been there (4 years) we've 5 different tenants. The current ones are ok, but they have wooden flooring and 2 kids! I've had to have words with them as they were having friends round with 2 young children in the evening who were allowed to run riot! But generally they are fine and we don't hear a lot. Certainly not TV or conversations etc.

fionajbanana

I live/lived in three flats - a 1980s GFF and heard the odd bang when things fall on the floor. The couple upstairs had sex in the small hours and it was probably just them I heard them as they were very loud doing it. Even when I came back from a night out at 2am, I heard them doing it from the other side of the road and the bedroom window was the other side of the block and shut!

The place I rented before this was a maisonette. It was a house on top of another house. It went lounge/kitchen, bedrooms/bathroom for property 1, lounge/kitchen and bedrooms/bathroom for property 2. I was on the bottom one so above my bedroom was the property 2's kitchen and it was quiet. The only time it was noisy was when anyone went through the communal front door as it was almost above my bedroom window as it made an almighty bang.

In my current flat built 2009 is very good. Again hear things being dropped. They will hear things I drop as well. My neighbour had a nasty cough beginning of the year and heard him coughing in the night. Its payback time as I got a nasty cough which keeps me awake.