Die noisy neighbour DIE

sniggings

xylophone wrote: »

This is a matter of personal opinion but the noise of day to day living, particularly if one lives in a flat or terraced house, has to be tolerated I think - I am not sure what can be done about the noise a boiler makes when firing or the sound of people talking or moving about a property.

The volume of music/television however is very easily moderated and inflicting such noise on the unfortunate neighbours is highly inconsiderate and unreasonable?

of course it's personal opinion...I tend to do that, not give someone else's opinion

I did say general noise has to be accepted but a boiler 2 flats up that turns on and off every 3 minutes doesn't.

I think the problem is mainly due to badly build houses/flats, mine is a propose build flat, yet I can hear talking and TVs etc ok they are loud as the people in question are old so do tend to have the TV volume up and talk loudly but even still I shouldn't be able to hear it.

xylophone

of course it's personal opinion...I tend to do that, not give someone else's opinion

And I was just giving mine...:)

sniggings

xylophone wrote: »

And I was just giving mine...:)

well if you give your opinion and I give mine, no reason we need to tell each other it's only our personal opinion...I guess most posts are the poster's opinion not someone else's, this by the way is just my personal opinion :rotfl:

Pixie5740

The soundproofing in some properties is shocking. Even without being excessively noisy on purpose, in some homes, you can hear every gurgling, splatter when the neighbour is in the loo. Yuk.

Some people don't help the situation by laying laminate or wooden floors, or worse still just going back to the bare floorboards as one neighbour of mine did. Another hung the tv on the adjoining wall, that was fun.

In my previous flat, my neighbours upstairs had 3 year old twins and whilst I could hear them the noise didn't bother me. It really irritated my nightmare landlady (she has a whole thread dedicated to her on this forum) though and the week I left they were installing laminate flooring :rotfl:

jaylee3

My sympathies with the OP, and I hate inconsiderate people who think the whole world should have to hear their music and loud films. Errrr, earphones people!

However, I am puzzled and baffled as to how anyone can hear next door's boiler 'firing up;' much less, one two floors up. I have lived in about 13-14 properties in my lifetime, old and new, flats, and semis and terraced houses, and I have never heard someone else's boiler. I have also never known a boiler turn on and off every three minutes. Sounds a bit weird.

Are you sure that it was the boiler that you were actually hearing? And that it wasn't just some other outside noise. I find it extremely unlikely that a boiler would a) be heard from 2 floors up, and b) be switching on and off every 3 minutes.

Building_Surveyor

When it comes to noise there needs to be a bit of give and take. Everyone should be able to enjoy their own home.

However, There are serial whingers who will live in/buy a mid terrace or flat and moan about very single foot step or door closing they hear through the wall, meanwhile they are sitting in silence. I have lived next to one of these people which is equally annoying as someone who plays loud music 24/7.

Then you have the equally inconsiderate who want to blast music at an ungodly hour every single day.

The happy median for me is the give and take. If I want to have a New Years party at my house I should be able to, same for my neighbours give and take.

The problem these days is people don't talk, or they approach the situation in a confrontational way. The truth is some people don't have any consideration for others or may not even realise that it is a problem. We all want to live how we want to live. Expecting people to live how you want to live in your house is probably not the answer. Accepting a compromise so that both parties have 'enjoyment' in their own home probably is.

sniggings

jaylee3 wrote: »

My sympathies with the OP, and I hate inconsiderate people who think the whole world should have to hear their music and loud films. Errrr, earphones people!

However, I am puzzled and baffled as to how anyone can hear next door's boiler 'firing up;' much less, one two floors up. I have lived in about 13-14 properties in my lifetime, old and new, flats, and semis and terraced houses, and I have never heard someone else's boiler. I have also never known a boiler turn on and off every three minutes. Sounds a bit weird.

Are you sure that it was the boiler that you were actually hearing? And that it wasn't just some other outside noise. I find it extremely unlikely that a boiler would a) be heard from 2 floors up, and b) be switching on and off every 3 minutes.

There's no doubt about it, I looked all over for the source of the noise, in the end I asked the neighbour did he know as the sound seemed to be coming from his flat, he said he was sure it wasn't but we went in and in the kitchen to the boiler, we both said it could not be that when it fired up as it wasn't too loud but then I said, lets see if it goes off in 3 minutes and yep it went off in 3 minutes! the worst of the sound was from out his back door on the balcony, so I guess it's where the air intake is or whatever you call it, so it is deffo coming from there, no idea why it's a 3 min cycle but I guess it's an old boiler?

sniggings

Building_Surveyor wrote: »

When it comes to noise there needs to be a bit of give and take. Everyone should be able to enjoy their own home.

However, There are serial whingers who will live in/buy a mid terrace or flat and moan about very single foot step or door closing they hear through the wall, meanwhile they are sitting in silence. I have lived next to one of these people which is equally annoying as someone who plays loud music 24/7.

Then you have the equally inconsiderate who want to blast music at an ungodly hour every single day.

The happy median for me is the give and take. If I want to have a New Years party at my house I should be able to, same for my neighbours give and take.

The problem these days is people don't talk, or they approach the situation in a confrontational way. The truth is some people don't have any consideration for others or may not even realise that it is a problem. We all want to live how we want to live. Expecting people to live how you want to live in your house is probably not the answer. Accepting a compromise so that both parties have 'enjoyment' in their own home probably is.

in most cases people know if they are being too loud, you don't need to knock on someones door to tell them.

No one here is talking birthday parties etc

HelenRachel

So out of interest, and this is a genuin question (as I've been thinking about it and can't work out the answer), what would your neighbour be able to do to stop his boiler from making the noise?

sniggings

HelenRachel wrote: »

So out of interest, and this is a genuin question (as I've been thinking about it and can't work out the answer), what would your neighbour be able to do to stop his boiler from making the noise?

I come at this the other way, should I be able to hear a boiler from a flat, with another flat in between, I'm thinking not.

What could he do? first find out what is making the noise, is it the air intake or something else, see if it can be moved away from an adjoining wall, or maybe the boiler needs insulating, with out being a plumber and I know he's not a plumber, I would guess there are any number of fixes.