can I keep telling my neighbour to lower the TV volume?

Desperado99

AliceBanned wrote: »

Sorry to hijack the thread but I was reading this as I am going through a problem with noise during the night - after moving in two weeks ago. It is a tenant upstairs. Just wondered how effective soundproofing is, and where is a good place to start to find the right kind etc? I'd appreciate any help but I will post separately on a new thread if my problem continues. I am being woken at present two or three nights a week at 2, 3 or 4 am.Thanks.

You're probably better off starting your own thread anyways as often people won't realise it's an older thread and not see your question........ maybe in the DIY section where all the handy people are

Also, maybe pop over to this forum: http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/

It has a subforum specifically for noise and you're likely to find more people who have fitted sound insulation.

Good Luck

AliceBanned

Desperado99 wrote: »

You're probably better off starting your own thread anyways as often people won't realise it's an older thread and not see your question........ maybe in the DIY section where all the handy people are

Also, maybe pop over to this forum: http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/

It has a subforum specifically for noise and you're likely to find more people who have fitted sound insulation.

Good Luck

Many thanks.

AliceBanned

Never knew of that forum - had no idea what NFHIB was! Fab.

pearl123

cybervic wrote: »

Her TV isn't blasting loud like when one loud music type, but it's loud enough that I can hear the programme she's watching and it's there EVERYDAY DAYS AND NIGHTS. Often a male commentator's voice is the source of bass and vibration, not to mention the background music sometimes came up really loud too.

I've had to put up with the same thing for years. People get old.
You need to perhaps learn to be accepting of old age. I've had to.

I'm glad now that my elderly neighbour can enjoy her TV. She probably does not have much else to enjoy.
I suggest you leave her alone.

Basil74

Battleaxe44 wrote: »

I think if you are subjected to noise pollution day in and day it, it can become painful and it does end up stressing you out. This is why we soundproofed our semi.

From the reading of the post, I think the old lady owns the house, so the council wont move her out.

90 or not, I think there is a thing as consideration for your neighbours.

Just out of curiosity when you say you soundproofed your house what/who did you use and was it worth it?

AliceBanned

pearl123 wrote: »

I've had to put up with the same thing for years. People get old.
You need to perhaps learn to be accepting of old age. I've had to.

I'm glad now that my elderly neighbour can enjoy her TV. She probably does not have much else to enjoy.
I suggest you leave her alone.

Obviously you don't have it quite as bad as cybervic. It can be so irritating having constant noise from a neighbour.

Also cybervic knows that the neighbour could actually take steps to do things so that the volume could be turned down, but won't do this. Why doesn't the 90 year old leave her neighbour alone and stop invading their house with noise that they shouldn't have, day and night?

Mojisola

pearl123 wrote: »

You need to perhaps learn to be accepting of old age. I've had to.

I'm glad now that my elderly neighbour can enjoy her TV. She probably does not have much else to enjoy.
I suggest you leave her alone.

Just because someone is getting older doesn't mean that they should be able to stop considering adverse effects they are having on neighbours' lives!

There are plenty of ways that the elderly neighbour could still enjoy her television without the noise being heard by neighbours.

geoffky

Is she still alive?

lostinrates

andygb wrote: »

Thank you for posting this, because I am something of a home cinema geek, and if you buy an ordinary television, they don't have the capacity (speakers/internal amp) to shake an entire house. You may be able to hear them next door, but they will be nothing compared to a full subwoofer kicking in during "Blackhawk Down" or some such film, and they will cetainly not be powerful enough to drown out your own television.
I smell a tall story here.;)

I know this is an old post, but any, I have experience of other people's tvs and radios drowning out mine at a volume I can stand.

One of my parents lives with me and before that I lived with the other one for a while. I definitely notice a difference in my general hearing when not living with ' older person volume' too.

Headphones have mainly resolved the issue for us, and the rest of the time I compromise. That's fair I think.

cybervic

Saw this old post when sorting out my subscription list and thought I post an update.

We decided to go official and filed a compliant to council. It took about 6 -8 weeks to sort it out, a bit of wait but got there in the end. If you are interested in a bit of details, read on. If not, I just want to let all the noise sufferer know, DON"T GIVE UP! Do your research before making a complaint, be honest, be clearly descriptive, and council will be on your side.


Here's what happened:
Worried that council might not agree with the problem because it is a 90+ years OAP and it wasn't blasting loud music-like noise, we submitted a 3 weeks of noise log detailing the time and the TV channel she was watching. We also had different neighbour and friends to come round to hear that her TV was clearly audible from our flat.

Few days later council called but told us he could only act on evidence gathered AFTER the complaint submit date because the other party needed to be informed of an investigation. So we had to submit few more weeks of new evidence which was really easy to gather this time round, the OAP had been playing the TV much louder on purpose (since receiving council's letter) and told everyone in her world that she is housebound and a TV is all she got and we can not touch her, her all important solicitor son would come and sort us out and we would eventually leave her alone.

Later in a while, council arranged a visit date for his part of investigation (both parties must be in). He came to our flat, walked around a bit, trying to listened to the noise (but it was quiet at the time), then nodded his head and told us it should all be sorted now.

This was obviously to our surprise, he then explained that he checked the complaint history and think the noise insulation should be quite good because there was never a noise complaint from this building which has 240 flats.

He went on to say that he had already been to the OAP's flat (with her solicitor son there), switched on her TV and the volume was so instantly loud it gave him a bit of heartattack! He turned the TV volume down and stop at a volume setting which he think is reasonable and that the OAP can also hear clearly. He then came up to our flat to check if it's audible here, and it wasn't! We couldn't hear a thing!

So what followed next was that we both received a letter from council detailing what happened and what volume setting was agreed during the investigation visit. The letter also said if the noise arise again and caught by the staff, council would take formal step blah blah blah and it could result in fine blah blah blah.

We never have any problem since! ! !