Sound proofing a wall to reduce noise from neighbors - anyone had experience?

MeticulousMark

Thanks all! Have looked into the various sound-proofing suggestions and thought about your advice. Sounds like even the very expensive sound-proofing options may not work at all or may make a minimal difference - looking online some of the false wall solutions only suggest that the volume is reduced by half, which would be nowhere near enough.

Buying a smaller bed to use another room doesn't make sense as we bought our bed for moving in and spent tons of money on a king size, wouldn't surprise me if the cost of the mattress, bed and all the bedding is over 2k. Binning all of that to buy a smaller bed seems nuts,

We could turn the lounge into the bedroom... but the kitchen comes directly off it and the bedroom has huge fitted cupboards with all our clothes in so seems a bit nuts. I think that would have more of a detrimental impact on our enjoyment of the house than the noise. 

SO - going to move the position of the bed in the bedroom around tonight as suggested to at least get it away from the wall. Unfortunately the only place it can go will only be a metre or so further away but that may help.  Then get a white noise machine on a trial. See how that does.

Having discussed it with my partner, we may just need to bring forward our plans for moving house, which is really disappointing as we have only just got this one the way we like it and my partner is currently only 6 months into a two year contract and we were not wanting to move until we know what's happening with her job. If I knew I'd only be only the sofa for 18 months it wouldn't be so bad I guess?

Very sad but I know almost always the case from reading these boards, after two years of complaints to the council of 16 people living in a licensed rental flat, over a dozen police visits, council ombudsman etc. very clear they have no intention of doing anything. We are also the only people to have organised communal repairs in the building for over 20 years due to to the owner of the flat in question, whom I have taken to court TWICE successfully for his share. Ultimately when we leave the building will continue to degrade to the point it is unlivable and the city will lose what should have been six great flats.

I'll update you in a week or two to let you know how moving the bed and white noise went...

last_mile

Do you have an Alexa in your bedroom? if so simply ask her to play "sleep sounds" she has loads.
I find it really helps when my upstairs neighbour is throwing herself a party.
I find thunderstorm to be a good one for "booming" voices.
If you have one give it a try before shuffling your whole room, especially if your partner can sleep through most things

Moneybear

I brought a white noise machine due to loud neighbours and it is great. I think it was £15 from Amazon. It really drowns out the noise from outside and was worth the purchase. Sometimes I can hear them over the rainfall so I just turn it up a bit more. 

deannagone

Get a comfy second hand sofa or sofa bed. I managed to buy a lovely leather reclining sofa for £300 on ebay.  Had to get it home obviously but it would have been five times that to purchase and we have all fallen asleep on it lol.  I quite often sleep on it, but out of choice rather than being forced to.  It can be quite nice to have a comfy sofa to watch TV on.

I looked for a good quality furniture name to select which ones I'd look at.