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can I keep telling my neighbour to lower the TV volume?
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Glad it's sorted cybervic. I think your first post DID sound a bot confrontational, but I know it was because you were at your wits end.
We had an old man (about 75) living next to us one time, and his tv was SOOOO loud that you could hear it from 6-7 houses away, and even the people who were not joined onto him like we were, said it was loud and that they 'feel sorry for us.'
We asked him a few times to turn it down. He did, but then within several days, it would come back up!
We frequently got woken by it at 1 and 2 in the morning too. He was a 75 year old man who lived on his own, who retired at 55, and didn't seem to realise (or care) that the people next door had to be up for work at 7am.
It got me down so much, that after a year of suffering it, I actually contacted the council, and they wrote to him.
He grumbled at me and said 'someone reported me to the council.' I said 'oh dear' and never mentioned whether it was us or not!
It was never very loud again! 2 years later we left anyway.
I never want to live next to very elderly people again until *I* am very elderly, as they always have the TV SOOOO loud.My friend is currently suffering this with a 79 year old couple next door, in a newish 2-bed house (a year old,) that frankly has appalling soundproofing.
She says you can hear them cough and sneeze, and even their talking sometimes. But they have the telly so loud, and it's making my friend very stressed. My grandparents were the same. We would pull onto their drive, and you could hear the tv. An average volume was 14-17 and they had it on 39!(•_•)
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If you love in a flat I am assuming you will probably have managing agents who look after various aspect of it and there will almost certainly be restrictive covenants on it which orevent certain practices, including noise prevention clauses to avoid the annoyance of neigh ours. Contact the freeholder/s who imposed the restrictive covenants and ask them to insist that they are observed.0
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fluffnutter wrote: »You're taking the piss, right? If you're not, you're a bit of an arse.
It's not the issue of the telly; after all, neighbour noise is a real problem and I don't doubt that the telly is annoying. Rather, it's your posting style. Don't you realise how unpleasant you sound? In fact, the more I read this the more I think you're being deliberately contentious. Why mention her age unless you want people to come out with the inevitable comments about how vulnerable, lonely, etc. she might be?
Just a bit of trolling really.
You Sir/Lady, are the troll. Obviously never experienced anything like this. Yes stirs emotions when '90 year old' is mentioned but come on, there are things the lady can do. Being 90 doesn't entitle someone to be that selfish.0 -
In leasehold flats, there are often terms within the lease that can be enforced should the need arise.0
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The building we are in is very well maintained by a managing agent who charges a very expansive service fee. However, we were surprised to know there is no rules about noise and all they can do is ask us to go to council as they didn't want to get involved.0
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