Would you put up with this from neighbours?

pathtofreedom

drbluebox wrote: »

To put it into perspective the walls here are thick enough I can put my tv or computer on high, close living room door and barely hear a sound if anything standing outside the door, if I put on washing machine on in kitchen and close the door you only hear a very muffled sound when its on the fastest part of spin at end, even one time I did drink and had music on loud enough I thought the neighbours would hear(as in months ago) I closed the living room door and just heard muffled sounds.

Just as you can't hear it in your own flat with the doors shut, doesn't mean the noise between flats above / below yours can't. As the sound proofing might not be as good between the floors, as between walls. Have you actually checked you're not adding to the problems, and they aren't up there thinking how do we complain about their tv / music keeping the baby awake? If you could hear them talking in the room above, then they would be able to hear your tv too I'd have thought.

drbluebox

pathtofreedom wrote: »

Just as you can't hear it in your own flat with the doors shut, doesn't mean the noise between flats above / below yours can't. As the sound proofing might not be as good between the floors, as between walls. Have you actually checked you're not adding to the problems, and they aren't up there thinking how do we complain about their tv / music keeping the baby awake? If you could hear them talking in the room above, then they would be able to hear your tv too I'd have thought.

I somewhat intentionally didn't mention that here but yes I did check in that with the previous tenant I asked her if she could hear me ever and she said no, and guy downstairs says he never hears me and at one point last year said he thought I moved out as he never heard me and he never saw me on stairs as he normally does.

I CAN'T hear then talking in the room above even with the tv off, the most I heard was that time a few days ago I heard a very muffled to the point I struggled to make it out voice that sounded like "oh just calm down"

And I never have my tv or music blasting at massive volume more a normal respectable volume, my tv with its built in speakers is set to about 13-20 depending on the channel out of 100, my other tv is the same (though has large external speakers) I often can't hear what is being said on screen its low.

I have even asked neighbours in the past when I did have music on could they hear it and they always said no.

I never hear my downstairs neighbour talk or his guests and he gets them a few hours a day, I hear maybe once or twice a day a door slamming but its muffled to the point you would have to know its there.

With the ex neighbour upstairs the only time I ever heard anything was when she had a birthday party for the child and even then it was muffled and I could only hear it below the room the party was (so shows how the sound proofing works)

Its a 50 year old property if that says anything about the quality,

Anyway today has been fine, almost silence yesterday had a few dropping sounds now and again.

looknohands

Depends on what you do noise wise In return... I've been in my new house a month now and I've been woken up by sex noises at 4am, and then the guy sometimes has his kids over and there's a three of them, super noisy but they're just kids. Doesn't help that the walls are thin, the other side plays instruments but not loud, like woodwind stuff. I'm kind of happy my neighbours are quite noisy as I feel there's a mutual acceptance of noise. At the weekend I can have friends over and I don't feel like I live in a monastery.

TBagpuss

Babies do cry. the knocking/banging could well be something like a rocking chair, or an adult doing something while rocking / soothing a child which is resulting in the noise you can hear, or the child being in a car which can be jiggled or rocked, which could result in quite a loud noise downstairs depening on exatly where it is and howe the sound travels.

In the first instnace, I'd suggest speaking to them, offering sympathy about the baby having trouble sleeping and ask them whether they can do anything about the noise - it may be as simple as putting a rug under the rocking chair / baby seat, or taking the baby into the living room rather than it's own room.