Neighbour and management threatening fines and eviction

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Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

Let's hope they waste money on a solicitor's letter. Just pass it straight onto your LL.


I'm saving furiously with the aim of moving to a detached house as far as possible from any neighbours. This country is just getting more and more choked with tiny, flimsy properties crammed together. Hideous way to have to live.

I am with you. I am never, ever buying another property joined to anyone else's ever again.

RelievedSheff

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

Let's hope they waste money on a solicitor's letter. Just pass it straight onto your LL.


I'm saving furiously with the aim of moving to a detached house as far as possible from any neighbours. This country is just getting more and more choked with tiny, flimsy properties crammed together. Hideous way to have to live.

But the tiny, flimsy properties are mostly existing properties. Not a lot you can do about those unless you knock them all down and start again!

Annastin

Amen to that!

We have lived in rented flats in and around London for a long time now and the best ones were always the ex-council built ones which had spacious rooms, solid construction and large separate kitchens. You couldn't hear footsteps from above or the television from the adjacent flat.

The newer the development, the smaller and less well (sound) insulated it is. I guess it's down to a lack of minimum standards and building it as cheaply as possible.

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

This country is just getting more and more choked with tiny, flimsy properties crammed together. Hideous way to have to live.

RelievedSheff

Lover_of_Lycra wrote: »

I am with you. I am never, ever buying another property joined to anyone else's ever again.

We have said the same.

We are now loving life in our new build detached house and will never go back to attached of any form.

RelievedSheff

Annastin wrote: »

Amen to that!

We have lived in rented flats in and around London for a long time now and the best ones were always the ex-council built ones which had spacious rooms, solid construction and large separate kitchens. You couldn't hear footsteps from above or the television from the adjacent flat.

The newer the development, the smaller and less well (sound) insulated it is. I guess it's down to a lack of minimum standards and building it as cheaply as possible.

In theory new builds should be far better sound insulated (and heat insulated) than older properties.

It is older properties that have little or no sound insulation!

Standards have greatly increased over the years. Although problems can still occur.

Annastin

Possibly. But that's not been my experience, at least where purpose built flats are concerned.

Just to be clear, not talking about heat-insulation here.

RelievedSheff wrote: »

In theory new builds should be far better sound insulated (and heat insulated) than older properties.

It is older properties that have little or no sound insulation!

Standards have greatly increased over the years. Although problems can still occur.

AdrianC

RelievedSheff wrote: »

In theory new builds should be far better sound insulated (and heat insulated) than older properties.

There's a big difference between insulation between the inside of the building and the outside, and between flats within the building.

RelievedSheff

AdrianC wrote: »

There's a big difference between insulation between the inside of the building and the outside, and between flats within the building.

I know.

I work in residential construction