Flat noise talking to neighbours

lstar337

nickyg2000 wrote: »

Read so much about people who have sound proofed there ceilings at great expense £5000 plus only to find it reduces sound by about 20%. What a joke.

That price sounds excessive, and 20% sounds dubious.

nickyg2000 wrote: »

I will email the landlord and and ask when there is a gap in the tenancy can I screw the floor boards down and have sound proofing underlay fitted reduces impact sound by 50db. Cheapest option me thinks....

And what if the new tennants don't want to have carpet, and rip it all up?

That would be a nice waste of money. I would improve the flat you have control over, not the one you don't own.

evoke

I fear that there's no easy solution to this. The bottom line is that there is very little sound insulation between the flats. Landlords rarely give a toss about the quality of life of their tenants - their motive, generally speaking, is money.

I would seriously consider getting another flat - if you can find a top-floor flat in a 2- or 3-storey block then you won't have this problem. You may still have noise from the neighbours at the same level or below you but it shouldn't be as bad.

An older property will probably be quieter than a new-build.

Have you bought this flat or are you renting? If the latter then how many months are you committed for?

I would always put quality of life first if able to do so financially.

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I would do what fraise suggested. Tell him you've spokent to the tenants who are making an effort but it's still noisy.

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I was sympathetic at first, but now i see you've been posting about this since March, since before you bought this flat, so you were always going to have problems becasue you anticipated them. Sell it and move somewhere else.

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evoke

nickyg2000 wrote: »

Evoke did you sell a flat with noise? any problems selling?

No problems selling. The person I sold it to just wanted to rent it out. He managed to lob another £20K off the price so he got a bargain.

A lot of people have lived in noisy flats so would be accustomed to noise from neighbours. I wasn't!

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lstar337 wrote: »

That price sounds excessive, and 20% sounds dubious.

And what if the new tennants don't want to have carpet, and rip it all up?

Tenants would not be allowed to tear up the landlord's carpets.

nickyg2000 wrote: »

lstar337 the lease states you have to have carpet, the management company took a developer to court and won for putting floorboards down.

Evoke we have bought the flat. Really gutted as we were looking for a year and this was by far the nicest flat we saw. We bought the flat for £205 and our neibours just sold there tatty ground floor flat (same block) for £225 so still feel we could sell and not loose any money (maybe even make some) We have a five year fixed but should be able to port. Wouldn't really want to sell before 12 months. But if i'm still hacked off in 7 months time I may well just put it up for sale. Selling via hatched and the costs of buying a new place come to £5k so if I sell for £210 im not out of pocket.

Its just depressing me and my girlfriend were so excited and saved for years. Only for it to end up with a massive stress which we argue about all the time ;-(

Hope you don't mind me asking you this, but if creaking floorboards are causing you massive stress to the extent you and your girlfriend are arguing all the time, do you think you could be stressed for other reasons as well? I know noise can be stressful, and everyone has a different tolerance level. What some people find annoying others barely notice, so it might be an idea to look at other aspects of the flat you may not like. Sometimes if you dislike just one thing in a place it can colour your judgement on everything else too, and everything becomes a major issue.

nickyg2000 wrote: »

lstar337 look on this forum for soundproofing experiences. The cost are high cheapest quote for a dropped ceiling in my bedroom £2k and that would not solve the footfall or creaking. The soundproofing companies will not give you a figure. They say people often become sensitive to sound etc...

You don't need or want a dropped ceiling for soundproofing. The soundproofing is done between your celing and the floor above you. It certainly would solve the creaking of floorboards, as professional soundproofing prevents all noise coming through - it's what musicians use to soundproof their studious, and you would not hear a pin drop when you're underneath. It is more costly than Impact Underlay, but you will have total silence, and no way would one ceiling cost £5,000. You need to shop around.