What level of noise shall I put up with from neighbours?

Guest101

I don't think you're suited to living in a flat.

marksoton

mrxry wrote: »

I can handle drilling if I am told about it, I can handle a child crying if I am prepared, I don't want to know their every movement but if I knew they put child in living room during day and bed at say 6pm I could plan around it and then if random things occured out of their control you can handle it.

The crying barely bothers me as its muffled enough the annoyance is they are not taking steps to minimize noise.

Oh do grow up. Their routine can't ( and bloody shouldn't) be dictated by you.. Jesus wept.

mrxry

Guest101 wrote: »

I don't think you're suited to living in a flat.

I am, let me put it this way to you I have lived above bars where I heard karaoke to late hours many nights and I was fine with it, I was fine with the drunks on the street singing after hours, the one thing I disliked was when empty bottles went into the bin as it was a sharp loud noise but I tolerated it.

I even lived a few doors up from a nightclub once and tolerated it and have lived near busy roads often.

All tolerable.

Guest101

mrxry wrote: »

I am, let me put it this way to you I have lived above bars where I heard karaoke to late hours many nights and I was fine with it, I was fine with the drunks on the street singing after hours, the one thing I disliked was when empty bottles went into the bin as it was a sharp loud noise but I tolerated it.

I even lived a few doors up from a nightclub once and tolerated it and have lived near busy roads often.

All tolerable.

Then find a flat above a pub next door to a night club and away from these people.

mrxry

marksoton wrote: »

Oh do grow up. Their routine can't ( and bloody shouldn't) be dictated by you.. Jesus wept.

Oh do shut up and use some intelligence.

I dont think their routine should be dictated by me in the slightest

I think their routine should minimize fallout to me.

So why is it you think they can do what they want and I have to put up with it and when I think they should minimize it I am dictating things.

Guest101

mrxry wrote: »

Oh do shut up and use some intelligence.

I dont think their routine should be dictated by me in the slightest

I think their routine should minimize fallout to me.

So why is it you think they can do what they want and I have to put up with it and when I think they should minimize it I am dictating things.

Because they aren't doing anything to spite you, just living life. You cant do anything about it.

marksoton

mrxry wrote: »

Oh do shut up and use some intelligence.

I dont think their routine should be dictated by me in the slightest

I think their routine should minimize fallout to me.

So why is it you think they can do what they want and I have to put up with it and when I think they should minimize it I am dictating things.

That's exactly what you've indicated.

Well practice what you preach pal. Buy some earplugs. Problem solved.

Utterly pathetic.

System

mrxry wrote: »

Oh do shut up and use some intelligence.

I dont think their routine should be dictated by me in the slightest

I think their routine should minimize fallout to me.

So why is it you think they can do what they want and I have to put up with it and when I think they should minimize it I am dictating things.

have you ever looked after a toddler?
They presumably pay to live in the property, so why should they not be allowed to live in it the way they want? if they need to do some diy inbetween looking after a child then that's their routine, it might not suit you but I'm sure they'd also rather not have diy to do whilst looking after a toddler!!

They may be trying to minimise it - it's not as straight forward as having a nice routine to keep the neighbours happy, sometimes my toddler is awake at 4 in the morning and I'm sure the neighbours hear him, but believe me, that's not my choice it's just life! luckily my neighbours are pretty civil and we all understand that living in flats means you sometimes have to deal with other peoples lives

suki1964

mrxry wrote: »

Did I say they did? No but because you don't know what to expect its impossible to plan to spend a few hours in my bedroom relaxing because I can't tell if the parents have the child in the living room or bedroom so will get exposed to noise either way.

And then I have to put up with what sounds like the child dropping stuff and running/stomping about which can wake me during the night, not that great if I have done a night shift at work.

The walls are quite thick here so I have no idea why I hear so much, I never heard the ex tenants nor my downstairs neighbour, I can't even hear if I have tv on in living room and I am in hallway or when neighbours are using hoovers.



See above its well enough insulated that I can't hear anyone else, I can barely hear cars passing by if I am in bed and can't tell when neighbours are leaving their flats, the ex tenants had dogs and I never heard them apart from the few times they were left alone all day in emergencies and they barked even then it was barely audible unless you were in room below them.

Not being funny or dismissing your.concerns, but you may because you are getting stressed by the noise, tuned yourself into it so to speak. My old neighbour done the same with us ( terrace house) and she even came banging on the door at 3am one winter morning cos our central heating had kicked in

Where i live now we have cocks crowing, dogs barking, heavy farm machinery going up and down to all hours in the silage season, and I don't here a thing. Yet a neighbour two field over left a dog outside who cried for hours to get in ( a noise I can't abide) and I went a knocking....

Daily living noises are to be expected and part and parcel of living in close quarters. I'm sure they don't realize or have even thought about how noise can travel. Children playing and crying can't be controlled but you could be polite and friendly and say to them that hovering and diy noises travel and whilst you don't expect silence, could they refrain between the hours of 9pm to 8am?

With our old neighbour ( she was mentally ill btw so we done all we could to be reasonable) we didn't put the washing machine on after 8pm (party wall )and moved the tv and stereo from the party wall

We were never great friends but we managed to rub along

bouicca21

Meant to have guests round tonight whom I haven't seen since Christmas dont want hours of either drilling or crying child.

But you said in the first post that the diy noise was only for about 30 minutes at a time. It sounds as though you are becoming over sensitive to what seems like perfectly normal activity.

As GM would say, this is a problem that calls for tea and cake.

When I have potentially noisy workmen I notify all my neighbours about what they will be doing and how long it is scheduled to take. But that seems to be unusual, because they certainly don't notify me.