Kept awake by noisy neighbours?

Jules said:
Can’t you call bylaw or report it to the building manager/owner? Around here the police would never come for a noise complaint, so I won’t suggest them.
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Does not happen often enough to warrant an official complaint.
 

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Kept awake by noisy neighbours?​


This is the very reason why I won't give up my house and move into a shared building with other residents.
Friends keep at me saying, "Downsize, Tim, get a nice little flat with other people close by, you'll love it."
I always reply, "I can't think of anything worse, here I can play my music as loud as I like, neighbours can't hear it, and I don't have to listen to their crap, plus the fact, I can visit, Nora from over the road in my slippers." 😊
 
Decades ago I had a neighbor with two small children. She also had noisy visitors with children. She was a small woman but when she walked across the floor you would think she was a giant. My ceiling fan/light used to shake and the glass in the hall fan/light eventually crashed and broke. One night...in the middle of the night I was startled by what sounded like someone must've picked up a huge box of books and slammed it on the floor over the bedroom. I'm sure that's not what happened but that's the only way I can describe it. I reported her to our board...they did nothing. Things got so bad that I began looking for another place to move but the rents for comparable places were a deterrent (I was "poor girl" back then). I toughed it out and glad I did. She eventually moved. A husband, wife (now my friend) and their two young boys took the apartment. I hardly heard a peep out of them.
 
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Bretrick said:
I had another late night thanks to my drunk upstairs neighbour.
He had the music going too loud and never turned it down until after 2am.
I wanted to go and tell him to turn it down but with a broken ankle this became problematic.
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This is the main reason I wouldn't want to live in a a flat....

I'd actually love to live in an apartment..no more stairs up and down a dozen times a day... no more big garden to care for ( much as I love my garden).... but I'm very sensitive to noise.. so it just would send me nuts having people above or below me making a racket.. especially during the night...
 
timoc said:

Kept awake by noisy neighbours?​


This is the very reason why I won't give up my house and move into a shared building with other residents.
Friends keep at me saying, "Downsize, Tim, get a nice little flat with other people close by, you'll love it."
I always reply, "I can't think of anything worse, here I can play my music as loud as I like, neighbours can't hear it, and I don't have to listen to their crap, plus the fact, I can visit, Nora from over the road in my slippers." 😊
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Well if Nora lived in the same block of flats, you'd never get your slippers dirty... :sneaky::LOL:
 
hollydolly said:
This is the main reason I wouldn't want to live in a a flat....

I'd actually love to live in an apartment..no more stairs up and down a dozen times a day... no more big garden to care for ( much as I love my garden).... but I'm very sensitive to noise.. so it just would send me nuts having people above or below me making a racket.. especially during the night...
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Being kept awake when really tired breeds anger. With no end in sight.
Pisses me off but not much use talking to a drinker. When drinking nothing or no one matters.
 
Bretrick said:
Being kept awake when really tired breeds anger. With no end in sight.
Pisses me off but not much use talking to a drinker. When drinking nothing or no one matters.
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yes i agree, the lack of sleep does indeed breed anger , and there's been many reported incidences of violence caused by someone whose been sleep deprived ..and yes I know only too well about trying to reason with a drinker...
 
In my college daze, noisy dorm residents were all too common. They’d think that because they had no 8:00 a.m. classes that they could blast music into the wee hours of the morning, then sleep during the day. This was in spite of dorm “quiet hours” that were mocked rather than enforced.

Later apartment life meant listening to the noisy amorous love-making of the people in the unit above at 1:00 a.m., complete with creaking bed springs and moans…. 🙀
 
I have same problem with neighbour above me. He has a very large, very old dog which he allows to roam around the apartment during the night. Some nights I am disturbed by floor noise/my ceiling 2/3/4 times . Last night was at 2am and 3.20.

The old floor was recently redone with that noisy vinyl stuff and one can hear a pin drop on it. He keeps a cage out on the balcony which in effect is the extension of my ceiling so I hear everything that happens out there too. I love dogs but believe me they have no place in an apartment building unless it is in a main floor apartment. They poop and pee in elevators because owners don't walk them enough....not the dogs' fault. Like us, they gotta go when they have to go.
I have complained to management and they say he has been told to keep dog in control but that is never going to happen.

Re wearing ear plugs. If elderly ,hard of hearing and live alone you should not wear as you might not hear fire alarm should it go off. That happened to a friend of mine when an apartment in her building had a fire she just did not hear it. The building was vacated but they noticed she was missing and found her still fast asleep.

So now I am off back to bed to see if I can get an hour or so of sleep.
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I'm really sorry about that and I can relate. It's so inconsiderate. I had a downstairs neighbor once that kept the stereo on all night. Her kids dad was in prison. I knew this from her loud outside conversation.

My apartment isn't too bad but people slam cupboards. I don't and neither does the nice quiet man behind me. I never hear him but I hear the people next to me that I share the kitchen wall with and the people below. The cupboards literally bounce. There is no excuse for that. They can be gently closed.

I'm wishing I had bought a condo. The thing is with those, neighbors are more permanent.
 
Bretrick said:
Does not happen often enough to warrant an official complaint.
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One time of blasting a stereo until 2am is already way too much. I'd call the landlord and report him.
In lieu of that, usually apartments have public breaker boxes. Flip the switch.

A quite large couple who lived above a friend of mine would stomp around, drop things that sounded like croquet balls on the floor, and routinely left their cable TV on when they were gone blasting religious sermons for long periods of time, right above my friend's living room. A pair of wire cutters (so I heard) did a great job on the cable, the sermons were gone, and they fortunately moved to a much better place.
 
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Pepper said:
Let's face it, even in private homes we are usually still close enough to hate our neighbors!
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When I owned that house, I can agree with some of it. Surround sound TV's blasting by the buy behind me and next to me. In the summer, they would have their doors open and that sound carries. Also the one jerk every half assed holiday his stereo speakers were outside blasting from 10am-10pm.
 
I don't know why some apartment dwellers are living with so much noise. I have lived in 3 different apartments in the last 5 years. I moved from apartment #2 to #3 when my wife passed away. All 3 apartments were very quiet. The only noise I ever heard was from the outside. Most of this noise came from roaring 4X4 trucks with stupid mufflers in them. Contractors pulling their trailers were another souce of noise. You folks must be living in one of those multi-generation apartments where the young people like to "party hardy". These kind of places seem to always have loud music and plenty of beer bottles rolling on the floor. All my places have been 55 Plus apartments. The folks here are as quiet as "the proverbial church mouse."

Good luck to all of you. The world is getting more and more noisy as the years roll by. No wonder some people just blow their top. I can't say I blame them. I know I would. First ask them nicely. If they don't listen to you or laugh at you; I find the axe in their door always brings the point across to them. The results are guaranteed.
 
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