Advice on Floor issue due to Neighbour

Ms_Chocaholic

I wonder how the occupiers of next door get enough sleep to function each day and go to work if they make that much noise during the night.

Jaynorth_2

Mistral001 wrote: »

If these people are playing games with you and are deliberately trying to annoy you, then do not try to play games as well. It will only encourage them to continue.

You either need to get help from the authorities or get some other third party involvement such by getting a friend to stay with you for a while.

Well the authorities around here are less than useless so I guess that means installing somebody in my property that gives off the message "you mess with us and see what happens.." - the threat of violence and aggression. I suppose that is the only language these sort of people understand.

pimento

I have to say that if it were me, I would try to catch the wife and say you're hearing a noise (you think) and you can't pin down where it's coming from. Can they hear it and could they help you find it. Perhaps say that you've also asked the neighbour the other side.

Play dumb and see what reaction you get.

nicter

With all due respect this is the kind of account we get from our paranoid patients
I agree with the advice to have a friend of yours stay and see if they hear anything .If they dont then a visit to your gp may be in order

Jaynorth_2

nicter wrote: »

With all due respect this is the kind of account we get from our paranoid patients
I agree with the advice to have a friend of yours stay and see if they hear anything .If they dont then a visit to your gp may be in order

Yes and with all due respect this is the reason why people feel that they can and do behave like this because they know that without obviously harassing a neighbour and being a bit subtle they can literally get away with murder.

Ganga

i would be tempted to put the speakers of my hi-fi against the wall in the morning as you go out to work and put something loud on,when they cnnot sleep during the day they might stop playing stupid b----ars at night.

PhilE

Carrot007 wrote: »

Sorry but everything you say just sounds like unproven paranoia.


Yes it is the british way to avoid speaking and get on with it, however you have no eveidence he is doing anything and no proof he know what he is doing. Like it or not talking is always the first port of call. .

This advice applied in more civilized times. Yes, we used to be a society that was more open to discussion and considerate with other peoples feelings.

Nowadays though, there is absolutely no point in letting scum know you have an issue. They know that they can bully and torment, and the council and police will never step in.

Either do something anonymously or be prepared to fight. There is no other way in modern British society. We do not have the protection from the council and police, necessary for civilization.

Mistral001

Jaynorth wrote: »

Well the authorities around here are less than useless so I guess that means installing somebody in my property that gives off the message "you mess with us and see what happens.." - the threat of violence and aggression. I suppose that is the only language these sort of people understand.

No I did not mean that. If you had someone staying with you, then you would not feel so alone with this problem. A problem shared and all that.

Fire_Fox

Chronically disturbed sleep - whether due to internal or external factors - is pure torture. It impacts our mental wellbeing: our ability to think positively, see the full picture, make the most logical or most rational choices.

Something crackpot is afoot next door. Every few hours, every night "for the sole purpose of disturbing [you]"? Why aren't they getting bored? Why did they stop when you threatened them with your "less than useless" council officials? How can they be wide awake after hours of drinking alcohol? How is your neighbour able to work each day on even less sleep than you are getting?

People are night owls for a variety of reasons. Legal and illegal.

Environmental Health departments have procedures for the same reasons that the Police do. Noise diaries are a tool to help the victim to record the disturbance and its impact relatively objectively. Next step is often informal or semi formal mediation. If all else fails your ongoing noise diary is a key component of the evidence needed for legal action to be successful.

Work within the system, do not sabotage your own case. Do not telephone, form a paper trail (e-mail or letter). If EH officers ultimately fail in their duty you can lodge formal complaint, you can involve your ward councillors and/ or MP.

longwalks1

Sorry to hear of your issue, we had a similar issue with new a new neighbour (your typical Jeremy Kyle contestant) who moved in next to us in our last place, but it was a female who was the issue and my partner popped round and nipped it in the bud straight away. She only had to go round once more and that was the last we heard of her.



If you do chase up the council (enough for it to have to be declared when selling your place), maybe do it publicly via social media as they can sometimes be embarrassed into taking action. Keep on at them (if you chose to go down that route).