How much noise is too much noise and reasonable times.

Rosemary7391

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I didnt say "Monday to Friday" only.

I didnt think it necessary to clarify that that also means between 8am-6pm on Saturday and Sunday as well. Duly clarified I do mean Saturdays and Sundays as well.

That's precisely what I thought you meant. I think that it's unreasonable. I don't want to spend Saturday and Sunday doing my noisy housework, I want to go visit my friends, out for walks - things I can't do without that time, as evenings are too short or dark. I also want to retain my current ability to play flute/clarinet (or even improve!), which I wouldn't if I could only play twice a week. I'm not trying to upset folk, just live my life. I'd work with anyone that was bothered to find something we could both live with, but I'd draw the line at not being allowed to make any noise during the week.It has to be a compromise. OP needs to have a conversation like that with his neighbour, it'll take several weeks as different things are tried, but if everyone is reasonable it'll work out okay

rtho782

Meh, noises happen. If someone is so upset about normal household noises, hoovering, etc, they need to buy/rent a detached house >300m from the nearest neighbors.

I hoover when I need to hoover. If I want to watch TV at night I have it at whatever volume I can hear. The neighbors do not factor into this. I would not expect to factor into their thoughts about hoovering either.

Though to be fair we live in a 1950 Semi, and the party wall is thick, and solid. I doubt anyone can hear anything through it.

Kim_kim

I live in a semi.
I live next door to people (a family) in a house, not mice in slippers.
I'd expect to hear some life/noise from the other side.
I have my Tv on the wall between us, I'm conscious of that (that's where it suits). They don't have carpet on their stairs, all stripped wood & slate flooring, so I do hear them going up & down the stairs - do I care, no.

dekaspace

Actually that brings up a point, when they first moved in upstairs they put in wooden flooring in every room (which was why they woke me up 4 days in a row and spent hours doing it)

They never even politely told me they had a large project planned.

The guy said after the wooden flooring was in the noise of the bass went down but was still there so not sure if that ties in with vibration.

I don't complain about their child as I see it as everyday noise though it is a little annoying at times when I want to relax, same really for the DIY its more a pain as you can't plan around it nor again if you want a relaxing day you can't tell if they are going to start DIY as it can go for days or weeks with none at moment then on and off for hours (they seem to do it on weekend more)

I am very self concious, I never wear shoes in the house unless I have just come in or going out, I always think back to a nutter of a neighbour I had that despite me actually tip toeing about he used to be at my door almost every night accusing me of having parties and not going to bed to 8am despite me being in bed by midnight most nights and just going into kitchen to get a glass of water, as said that neighbour had complained about all 5 previous tenants in the time he lived there, and 3 more tenants after I moved out until he moved and all other places I live people often knocked on my door asking if I was ok as they hadn't seen or heard for me in a week or two (as I was that quiet)

dekaspace

Bit annoyed now but others may think its everyday noise, he has spent over a hour dragging furntiure from his old flat upstairs to downstaits, it really does sound think a thunderstorm lol.

I just get a little annoyed when he does his projects like diy or moving furniture he never thinks about telling me so I have to put up with the noise when I am trying to make an effort to make sure he can't hear noise from me.

tomtontom

dekaspace wrote: »

Bit annoyed now but others may think its everyday noise, he has spent over a hour dragging furntiure from his old flat upstairs to downstaits, it really does sound think a thunderstorm lol.

I just get a little annoyed when he does his projects like diy or moving furniture he never thinks about telling me so I have to put up with the noise when I am trying to make an effort to make sure he can't hear noise from me.

It's a one off event for one hour. Why would be need to tell you?

If it was my neighbour I'd be out there offering to help, not sat moaning about it.

TBagpuss

dekaspace wrote: »

Bit annoyed now but others may think its everyday noise, he has spent over a hour dragging furntiure from his old flat upstairs to downstaits, it really does sound think a thunderstorm lol.

I just get a little annoyed when he does his projects like diy or moving furniture he never thinks about telling me so I have to put up with the noise when I am trying to make an effort to make sure he can't hear noise from me.

Have you asked him to?

Like you and you Bass, he may not realise how audible his actions are or how much you notice / mind, or he may think that as they are each one of incidents, that it is not an issue.

I think if it bothers you, or if you would like a heads-up, it's reasonable to ask.

I told my neighbours when I was havign the builers in, I didn't tell them when I was putting up curtain poles and using an electric drill - and I would not automatically expect them to tell me. And if it was importnat to me to have prior notice I would speak to the neighboussto ask that they let me know.

dekaspace

tomtontom wrote: »

It's a one off event for one hour. Why would be need to tell you?

If it was my neighbour I'd be out there offering to help, not sat moaning about it.

So I can plan around it so it doesnt disturb me.

Would you really?, or is that just a way to make you sound great.

Its so one off that I have heard DIY for months on and off waking me at 7am, especially 4 days straight when he was putting in flooring.

But I guess thats ok as its "one offs (or four offs)

Im so sorry that hearing banging and crashing on regular occasions is me moaning especially when I am trying to be polite.

I guess then you think its ok for me to blast out music as "one offs"

So easy to make claims on a website.

Rosemary7391

dekaspace wrote: »

So I can plan around it so it doesnt disturb me.

Would you really?, or is that just a way to make you sound great.

Its so one off that I have heard DIY for months on and off waking me at 7am, especially 4 days straight when he was putting in flooring.

But I guess thats ok as its "one offs (or four offs)

Im so sorry that hearing banging and crashing on regular occasions is me moaning especially when I am trying to be polite.

I guess then you think its ok for me to blast out music as "one offs"

So easy to make claims on a website.

I think if this disturbs you, you should politely request him to let you know in advance. I wouldn't know to tell you - I'd assume you were at work in the middle of the day, or otherwise occupied in something that doesn't require total silence. Living in a city is inevitably noisy ! Talk to your neighbour; it's the only way to stop you both silently getting annoyed with each other.

dekaspace

TBagpuss wrote: »

Have you asked him to?

Like you and you Bass, he may not realise how audible his actions are or how much you notice / mind, or he may think that as they are each one of incidents, that it is not an issue.

I think if it bothers you, or if you would like a heads-up, it's reasonable to ask.

I told my neighbours when I was havign the builers in, I didn't tell them when I was putting up curtain poles and using an electric drill - and I would not automatically expect them to tell me. And if it was importnat to me to have prior notice I would speak to the neighboussto ask that they let me know.

I did mention to him the things I hear like his child running about or his baby crying and he was just basically saying it was regular kid noise, if its now and again you can expect it but since he moved in I heard regularly for first month DIY even past 10pm on a few occasions and after the 4th day of him sawing and drilling and hammering in flooring I mentioned it and he wasn't bothered just was like "oh well its over now" only to a week later do more drilling and sawing.

I can't tell if hes just exhausted raising a child and baby and so he hasn't got the energy to respond as he never smiles and always looks miserable.

When he does the diy its not a 5 minute job its drilling for like 10 minutes, then sounding like stuff getting brushed up, some sawing, a small gap of silence then the same but then maybe nothing for 2 or 3 hours then a hour of that again.

Had I known he planned to do things in advance like he was doing DIY at random during the day I can organise something like being out of the house, if hes doing it first thing I can go to bed early or sleep on sofa in living room (which I think is more than I should be doing)

The noise is so loud when he drills its like when they are drilling roads.

Yet noise such as when I lived about a busy pub never bothered me, nor did noise from traffic when next to a main road.

The amount of work he does he must do this sort of thing for a living as he put in new floorboards, I think even a new bath and shower, new skirting boards etc and never once even mentioned in passing hes doing DIY over the next few days, even being told something like hes planning DIY for this weekend I would know even if I didn't have times.