Advice - Noisy Neighbours

kimbyanne

We have lived in our flat for nearly eight years. The lady below us allowed her son and his girlfriend to move in a couple of years ago and they are very noisy (loud music, loud sex, loud everything) but nothing major.

However, over the last couple of months one of their doors has become ridiculously squeaky and they seem to slam it every minute, I have no idea why on earth they seem to be opening and closing this door so often but never mind. I think it's their bedroom door which is directly below our bedroom and the noise is shockingly loud (loud long squeak followed by a thud)

In the time I have taken to write this, they have opened and closed the door about ten times.

Now the issue we have is that they are not particularly pleasant people (from what we have heard and seen over the years) and I don't know how to approach this but it needs sorting because the noise is so annoying. I was thinking about putting a note through the door asking them to oil the door or something.

The noise is probably worse because our flat has laminate floor throughout so we do expect some noise but the door has definetely become a major issue as we never heard it before. We are very careful to be quiet, no shoes on floor, no running, no loud music etc) so it really frustrates me that they don't seem to be considerate towards us. The door is so loud they can obviously hear it too but haven't bothered to fix it!

(Make that 12 times now....)

Scrapaholic

All I can say is why not knock on their door, and in a pleasant tone, ask if they'd like to borrow your oil for their door . Maybe they just haven't got around to oiling it yet . They probably don't realise it's bothering you . You never know, they might be ok and the problem might be easily fixed . I hope so !

fashionlover10

Leave a can of WD40 and a door wedge outside their front door.

MrsAtobe

Stop being so careful to be quiet, if they can't hear you, they possibly think that you can't hear them.

itsanne

MrsAtobe wrote: »

Stop being so careful to be quiet, if they can't hear you, they possibly think that you can't hear them.

I agree with this, but also think you should speak to them. You could take some oil with you to offer them at the same time

meritaten

I agree too - my rather deaf elderly neighbour didn't have any idea that I could hear every word from her TV until I had a friendly chat with her!
(I do have to remind her son when her hearing aid battery is getting low - her TV sound goes up and up!)
The walls between us might as well be cardboard - but it came in useful a few months back when I could hear her moaning in pain at 2.00am - poor woman was extremely ill and fortunately I could call the ambulance for her and alert her son.

Frith

This is a timely post for me as I am listening to our neighbour squealing and whooping on her patio AGAIN. (She's socialising and drunk rather than up to anything outrageous out there!)

This has gone on for about 2 months. (The patio bit - due to the good weather). Her children are both also ridiculously noisy but then you would have to be to be heard over her and the constantly booming music playing (she brings the stereo out onto the patio - what joy).

Our neighbour on the other side (so 2 doors away from Miss Noisy) actually came into my garden today to tell her children to be quiet. I have only asked her once - at 4am when her party that evening meant my 10 year old was still awake.

I am seriously wondering whether to ask the council for advice?

kimbyanne

Well this morning the door was opened and closed several times at 2am waking myself and my boyfriend. I haven't ever heard it at that time before so maybe the door is getting worse, I don't know - either way we need to sort it because it is driving us mad.

I will put a note through their door later but in all honesty, I don't think they will take notice

CH27

Lay thick carpet on all your floors to muffle any noise.

mummyroysof3

I'm suprised at the laminate flooring in a flat. We have it in our lounge and in the bedroom above you can hear everything so we are getting carpet put back down soon.

Do they have laminate too?

Guest101

Frith wrote: »

This is a timely post for me as I am listening to our neighbour squealing and whooping on her patio AGAIN. (She's socialising and drunk rather than up to anything outrageous out there!)

This has gone on for about 2 months. (The patio bit - due to the good weather). Her children are both also ridiculously noisy but then you would have to be to be heard over her and the constantly booming music playing (she brings the stereo out onto the patio - what joy).

Our neighbour on the other side (so 2 doors away from Miss Noisy) actually came into my garden today to tell her children to be quiet. I have only asked her once - at 4am when her party that evening meant my 10 year old was still awake.

I am seriously wondering whether to ask the council for advice?

If its past 11pm, you can ask the council, and possibly the police to attend, though the polic ehave no real power, they may have words of advice.

If it's before 11pm, you wont have much of a case.

These things can take months or years to resolve, and if you own your house, there will be an offical dispute marked against it, which will flag up if you ever sell.