Recently purchased flat. Noisey neighbours

PhilE

shortcrust wrote: »

It sounds like your neighbour is just living her life in a perfectly reasonable fashion. If I were her we’d have had a row by now. Please take a step back and think carefully about whether you might be harassing her.

You’ve bought a flat with no sound proofing. That’s your problem, not your neighbour’s. It should have on your list of things to investigate and you should have factored in the cost of sorting it. Spend some cash and leave the poor woman alone.

Why would you have a row? Do you lack the basic ability to communicate with people without having a row?

Why is a neighbor not being able to sleep their problem? If someone is keeping you awake is it also your problem? No. Then you'd want a row with them also.

Neighbor annoys you, you row. You annoy neighbor, you row. One day you'll row with the wrong person.

jamesperrett

As you are in the downstairs flat it should actually be fairly easy to create a decently soundproofed ceiling. You'll need to remove the existing ceiling (but you won't need to touch the floor above), add in a second set of joists slightly below the existing joists and then attach your new ceiling to the new joists. Separating her floor from your ceiling by using two sets of joists is going to make a huge difference.

lookstraightahead

I feel your pain op. I live on a fairly main road and did not realise how much it would affect me. I am moving.

You cannot stop a lady getting out of bed to go to the loo etc. And most people do not care anyway.

I think renting it out may be a good idea.

Norman_Castle

jamesperrett wrote: »

You'll need to remove the existing ceiling (but you won't need to touch the floor above), add in a second set of joists slightly below the existing joists and then attach your new ceiling to the new joists.

No need to remove the old ceiling, it will add soundproofing. Fit the new floating ceiling below it.

Marvel1

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Had complaints about your noise?


A friend has a similar problem with an upstairs neighbour who drags furniture around, drops heavy item and plays music from around 4am. I suspect she could argue its normal behaviour but its not normal to be disturbed in this way. People who live in flats need to moderate their behaviour or homes where possible if its causing a problem.

If you were experiencing it I doubt you would consider your complaint as harassment.

Reads first post again, nope none of those mentioned.

Norman_Castle

cjdavies wrote: »

Reads first post again, nope none of those mentioned.

Noise above a bedroom at night from an upstairs neighbour. Do you know what similar means?

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Noise above a bedroom at night from an upstairs neighbour. Do you know what similar means?

Someone walking around at 11:30pm? You think that's unreasonable?

Nobody is saying that noise can't be unreasonable. This isn't.

victoriavictorious

Just get the ceiling soundproofing done. Tbh, if the situation was causing me this much distress, I wouldn't be haggling over whose 'responsibility' it was to pay for it.

boliston

is it a conversion or a purpose built flat - some conversions seem to have noise problems as they often just have the original wooden floorboards between floors rather than concrete

1886

Just wanted to say that you have my sympathy. My wife and I rented for a good two years a top floor apartment in a Victorian terrace. It wasn't ever meant to be five individual dwellings therefore the soundproofing wasn't up to scratch

The woman below us lived on her own but could talk for England. If she was on the phone we could hear every word. She was nice enough but quite loud, I would avoid her if I heard her in the stairwell and I was about to go out. She also worked split shifts and used to come home late often and then hang and crash around, it sounded like she moving out

Her husband came back from renevating a place they had in France and the noise got unbearable. We mentioned it to them in the form of a note and it didn't go down to well. She said she could hear us walking around, were we meant to fly?

Luckily we were only renting so moved on. As has been said, look in to sound proofing or maybe long term moving on?