Reply to: Noisy neighbour

[moorfield]

There's not a lot you can do, you can't stop people wandering around their flat.

Yup, this is an all too common problem with badly converted / carved up old houses. Not a lot you can do.

Solution: Rent your flat out to Antipodeans, throw in a free soundsystem and subwoofer, and move out.

[Bob Dalek]

Isn't that only if you complain to the council? Surely we can still have a quiet civilised word with someone without it having to go down on a form?

These "civilized words" can end up with another neighbour having to dial 999, or at least overhearing it all. So, I'd rather pay £200 to soundproof my wall, getting the added benefit of excellent insulation, and be serene after the house sale. Your bastardly noisy neighbour may well mention, one fine day, to the person who bought your house that you, like, the buyer, are nothing more than a killjoy effing so-and-so... then the game's up and you lose big time.

[Ruprect]

Top Tip: Don't EVER, EVER, EVER, go 'round to complain - just soundproof.

Else, your Seller's Pack is going to be a millstone 'round yer neck.

Isn't that only if you complain to the council? Surely we can still have a quiet civilised word with someone without it having to go down on a form?

[Turion]

I have the opposite problem, with a guy who lives downstairs from me in this old converted house in the city. I have to do the early shift so means getting up 5-30am and in consequence have to sleep early. Only problem is the guy downstairs is very active until well after midnight with loud TV, music and general stomping around. I have trouble getting more than a few hours sleep and recently he has been giving me threatening looks and I think that he is trying to drive me out. Do you think the council can help me?

[Bob Dalek]

Top Tip: Don't EVER, EVER, EVER, go 'round to complain - just soundproof.

Else, your Seller's Pack is going to be a millstone 'round yer neck.

[DS23]

Ear plugs is the answer. Get soft ones. Eventually you'll probably sleep through it anyway.

whs

[BlasterBates]

I live in an old house subdivided into with poor sound insulation.

The chap upstairs from me (aka Bigfoot) has recently taken to rising at 5:30am to get ready for work. I am awoken when he jumps out of bed and starts walking around the creaky floorboards. He pads around for ages making more noise, and then runs down the stairs which back onto my bedroom.

I can then not get back to sleep.

Do you think such a complaint is one that could be dealt with by my council's environmental health department? Or should I learn to live with it and deprive myself of sleep. It is quite detrimental to my current role where I am trying to learn new skills, as I am exhausted by 2:30pm.

I don't wish to move as I am five minutes walk from the city centre and 30 seconds walk to the park. It's a nice house with some interesting historical connections.

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thum...ham_towers.jpg

There's not a lot you can do, you can't stop people wandering around their flat.

Ear plugs is the answer. Get soft ones. Eventually you'll probably sleep through it anyway.

[SizeZero]

I think HermanDune is a new 'character', a challenger for Wilmslow's crown (The Polyester Tie Award).

I wonder who's responsible....

[daviejones]

You could always learn to play the drums and do all your practicing when he goes to bed.....

Or...give him some fluffy slippers as a present, but he may take that the wrong way

[Churchill]

I think the police would get bored reading this forum and not actually be able to do a trace. Anyway don't they spend all their hours looking at porn (in a Pete Townsend research mode)?

You're new to this "internet lark", aren't you?

[HermanDune]

Surely the real hard nuts create an internet trail to lead the police straight to their door?

I think the police would get bored reading this forum and not actually be able to do a trace. Anyway don't they spend all their hours looking at porn (in a Pete Townsend research mode)?

[NotAllThere]

Shift your sleeping times to match his. I.e. go to bed earlier.

[Diver]

Soundproofing's fairly cheap - Google for NoiseStop, or similar.

Or Exterminate, Exterminate

[Bob Dalek]

I live in an old house subdivided into with poor sound insulation.

The chap upstairs from me (aka Bigfoot) has recently taken to rising at 5:30am to get ready for work. I am awoken when he jumps out of bed and starts walking around the creaky floorboards. He pads around for ages making more noise, and then runs down the stairs which back onto my bedroom.

I can then not get back to sleep.

Do you think such a complaint is one that could be dealt with by my council's environmental health department? Or should I learn to live with it and deprive myself of sleep. It is quite detrimental to my current role where I am trying to learn new skills, as I am exhausted by 2:30pm.

I don't wish to move as I am five minutes walk from the city centre and 30 seconds walk to the park. It's a nice house with some interesting historical connections.

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thum...ham_towers.jpg

Soundproofing's fairly cheap - Google for NoiseStop, or similar.

[BrilloPad]

yawn.

another blowhard.
If you were going to do it , you would have done it by now

yawn.

Surely the real hard nuts create an internet trail to lead the police straight to their door?