Inconsiderate neighbour - noise

onwards&upwards

RelievedSheff wrote: »

There are clearly a few people on here who have never suffered from bad neighbours.

Lol, yeah, they’re the ones who think normal sex noises and an occasional late night are enough to start banging on walls and getting worked up!

I dread to think how you’d cope with truly bad neighbours.

boomer69

AliceBanned wrote: »

Hi
I live on the first floor of a three-storey block. I don't hear the neighbours much at all but the woman downstairs has been a frequently noisy since she moved in, about 2 years ago.


It isn't enough probably to warrant a noise nuisance via the Council. We both own our one-bed flats. She has the window open all the time because she uses it as a cat-flap. It is a leasehold flat with no cat-flap on main door. When she moved in with her husband they were very loud 'in the bedroom' in the middle of the night, and sounded like they were also drunk/on drugs possibly. I put up with it and after waking me a few times I started banging on the floor. They have now split up and she is with someone else who seems not to be as crass as displaying their sex life to the whole block though I do occasionally hear it. I found it hard to have a face to face discussion so have built up some resentment and just bash on the floor or slam a door and she now knows it annoys me. Sometimes she plays her radio super loud the next day. The situation has gone beyond it every being amicable and I don't care about that, I am not bothered by her too often but when I am it is bad and affects me the next day due to sleep deprivation. It is really awful being in deep sleep and woken at 1 or 2am.

However - the other day she was hoovering at 5.40-6am :eek:and I had just had enough. The sound travels quite a lot but really she shouldn't be hoovering at that hour!! I realised then that she is the problem, I'm not being over-sensitive. She has also woken me by coming in drunk at 1am and putting music on, maybe not loud enough to disturb everyone but being above her and it coming from her bedroom it disturbed me as my bedroom is above. Many times I've slept on my sofa instead. A young family in the flat next to hers on the ground floor have recently sold up and moved out but probably unrelated to the noise, as they have a toddler so are probably outgrowing the flat.


Should I just put up with it as I plan to leave in 1-2 years? I couldn't believe the hoovering, there is no way this is necessary. AFter this I put a note through her letterbox telling her to read the lease - the rules on noise are in there and telling her I need sleep and making some comment about starting hoovering at 5.40am. I haven't heard back an I presume she doesn't give a toss. Should I make a more formal complaint? The freeholder is a housing Assoc (Metropolitan) but pretty useless with most complaints tbh. I have kept a record in my phone of some of the incidents and the dates but I think they are too infrequent for any authority to take any notice. I don't inflict this on my neighbours so I find it hard to understand such selfish behaviour, especially the hoovering as usually she is loud because she has been out drinking and I can let her off for this happening occasionally, we do live in a block but doing something to create unnecessary noise at such an early hour, really I have lost patience and any respect for her.

Alice, you need to move, and to a detached property.
Good luck.

RelievedSheff

onwards&upwards wrote: »

Lol, yeah, they’re the ones who think normal sex noises and an occasional late night are enough to start banging on walls and getting worked up!

I dread to think how you’d cope with truly bad neighbours.

We have had truly bad neighbours and are now glad that we have moved away from them. Truly bad neighbours who accuse you of reporting their children to social services (we were on holiday at the time this was supposed to have happened), report you to the police for beating them up (I was at work when this was supposed to have happened), neighbours who damage your cars, have loud parties through the week when they know you have to get up early for work, the list could go on.

But I suppose you would say that this was just normal neighbourly behaviour would you?

We were glad to leave that hell hole and were sorry for the young couple who bought our house as no doubt they will get the same behaviour from next door.

RelievedSheff

boomer69 wrote: »

Alice, you need to move, and to a detached property.
Good luck.

Best advice :beer:

We would not even consider living in an attached property now after the experience at the last property. Mind you I can't see us moving from our current home for a long time if ever now.

Davesnave

RelievedSheff wrote: »

We were glad to leave that hell hole and were sorry for the young couple who bought our house as no doubt they will get the same behaviour from next door.

But were you sorry enough to declare what they could expect on the TA6?

RelievedSheff

Davesnave wrote: »

But were you sorry enough to declare what they could expect on the TA6?

Yes. We were entirely truthful with them and told them as they were viewing the property for the second time.

It didn't put them off and hopefully they hold their own all night parties now to give the neighbours from hell a taste of their own medicine :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Gio22

RelievedSheff said:

We had a similar situation with our last house. We stuck with it for 12 years.

It is only when we moved this Easter that we realised what an effect it had had on our day to day life.

You will never change your neighbours behaviour, inconsiderate people are just that they will never change. She will be fully aware that her behaviour is a nuisance to you but will firmly believe it is her right to act like she is. Some people are just idiots.

If you can move your planned house move forward at all I would do that. It will be better all round in the long run.

How did you manage for 12 years? I am living in my new flat from 7 months and I would like to sell it already! Terrible management, terrible neighbours....I made a mistake as a FTB and now I am stuck here as I have invested all my savings in this stupid flat and also because I have reported my neighbours to the police and the council and I believe if I will wait another couple of years it will be easier to sell my flat...