Upstairs neighbour floor

PasturesNew

If you can get a good microphone up by the ceiling, hooked into a big sound system, you could replay her noises back to her ..... and when she comes banging explain it's not YOUR noise, it's hers.

As you rent you can be as 4rsey as you like as you don't have to worry about resale/value/problems.

Retired_Mortgage_Adviser

You rent, the upstairs person rents (you think).

If that is the case, the chances of you being able to force them to put carpeting back in is vanishingly slim to none. Difficult and expensive as it may be, you will probably have to move to end this nightmare.. .. or wait and hope that the upstairs person moves on.

Look on the bright side, as a renter you can up sticks and move. Imagine the task in front of you if you owned the flat!

Davesnave

Retired_Mortgage_Adviser wrote: »

You rent, the upstairs person rents (you think).

If that is the case, the chances of you being able to force them to put carpeting back in is vanishingly slim to none.
Look on the bright side, as a renter you can up sticks and move. Imagine the task in front of you if you owned the flat!

^This is the answer I was about to write, but RMA has done it all for me. While annoying and an extra cost, as a person renting you have greater flexibility and a cheaper experience in moving than someone saddled with a mortgage. They'd still have little influence over the situation in most circumstances.

lookstraightahead

If you are both renting just go upstairs and chat with her. Tell her you can hear everything!

Isn't it strange - I love hearing people around me but I had to move from a house where I could hear traffic - I hate the sound of cars so now live in the middle apartment but in the middle of the countryside!

AdrianC

pdiggitydog wrote: »

I do agree with moving however, it is quite expensive to move and stressful and whatnot but it's still not out of the question, but do you reckon there is no hope on the finding out if they've taken the carpet and getting them to refit it again?

You complain to your landlord.
Your landlord complains to the freeholder.
The freeholder complains to the leaseholder - if she is renting, that's her landlord.

If the lease does say "No hard flooring", then the freeholder can wave a medium-size stick at the leaseholder, who may or may not take much notice. If it's let, then they're very unlikely to until that tenant moves out - at which point, they may then go back to carpet.

RelievedSheff

I have all sympathy for you. We suffered with terrible neighbour noise , albeit from the side not above for 12 years and it drove us crazy. I can only imagine it would be worse from above.

We owned our home and didn't have the option of moving as the house ended up in negative equity when the markets crashed. The one plus side of your situation is you are renting so can move on at the end of your tenancy.

We did eventually manage to move house last year and as we had such a bad experience with the last house we were determined to have a detached property, nothing else would suffice.

I know getting a detached house isn't possible for everyone but ours didn't cost us the earth and we are so glad we got it. It was only when we moved that we realised just what an adverse effect our neighbours had on our lives. We are all so much happier in this house, even the dog!

ethank

I moved into a flat once with hard flooring and I walked around with my shoes on in the flat. One day the downstairs flat told me that they heard me going out to work every morning and could here my shoes (they were really calm and civil). I was mortiified, immediately apologised and going forward, I put my shoes on at my front door.

Have you tried talking to your neighbour to let them know how much the sound travels. It may not work, but I do think most people want to be unselfish/civil (like me) and will change their behaviour

pdiggitydog

Thank you all so much for your responses! I think we will most likely either have to just accept it or move on, both of which we are contemplating. We keep meaning to chat to her about it but things keep happening at other points and she keeps giving us reason to make our blood boil (using our wheelie bins and filling them up as she doesn't appear to have any and has never asked to use ours!) and we obviously don't want to have a calm chat while seething! But as soon as things are a bit less hot we will chat to her!

MovingForwards

Pdiggitydog, sounds like my above neighbour, laminate flooring, can clearly hear conversations, things being dropped, chairs scraping across the floor and have started filling my bin. It's only a few hours from about 4am that they shut up and go to bed, then it starts over at 6am....

Even if I'm in my bedroom I can hear it, but then I also have the screaming woman in the flat next to me, can set my watch by her routine. 10pm til she runs out of steam (usually 1am), longest it went on for was til 7am, when she stopped for 2 hours and carried on again for several hours.

Be glad when I move later this year, hoping my sanity lasts!

charlie792

One of our flats was so poorly converted you could literally hear him pee :eek:

After living in two ground floor flats each with their own issues, we vowed to never live in a flat ever again. Moving would definitely be the best option here