I think probably, unless you're detached? My old build had much thicker walls than the new build we lived in.I can’t wait to move and not share a bedroom wall with someone so that I don’t need to listen to them having sex all of the time and grunting like pigs!
Do newer buildings have less issues with noise, even if it is a flat? Or are they just as bad as older building? (I’m in a tenement)
OhI think probably, unless you're detached? My old build had much thicker walls than the new build we lived in.
I would call the rspca, even if they cannot come out, you need a record of eventsJust an update on my noisy dog neighbours; today they left with their army of kids in tow at 2pm. It’s not just before midnight, not one of them has come home I’m lying in bed at the other side of the flat and I can still hear the dogs barking like they have been since they left. I’m absolutely at my whits end with this, I don’t even know what else I can do
Don’t know why but the ugly dog comment just had me in hysterics. I keep rereading it and cracking upHe thinks he’s a ticket, stalks about with his coffee and his short shorts and his ugly dog.
Feel your pain @Penelope Strawberry as I had a very similar situation. Nightmare neighbours in the flat above. It started with fag butts and joints which I collected up, wrapped in clingfilm and left on their front doormat with a note saying “stop throwing this into my garden, buy an ashtray or use a bin”. This was on the day some other neighbours were moving in so they must have thought I was a psycho! It worked for a while but started up again along with chicken bones and wet wipes, pizza crusts, bottle tops, condom wrappers and one time a used condomUnfortunately the neighbours above us have taken to using our garden as a bin. First they started throwing cigarette butts down into our garden, then they poured buckets of dirty water down from their windows. Now we have progressed to actual rubbish. Used tissues, wet wipes, chicken bones, bottles - you name it, it's getting chucked out of their windows instead of into the bin.
A few years ago when living with a mate we discovered our very prim and proper looking upstairs neighbour was a prostitute - probable dominatrix. She looked like an ageing Mary Poppins and the one time I saw her out of the flats she actually had a carpet bag.The woman in the flat above was an office worker by day and a telephone sex worker at night, and seemed to have her noisy, thumping washing machine going all night long, where she'd sit on top of it making lots of 'ooooh' and 'aaaah' noises. She also never closed her curtains at night - seemed to get a right thrill out of passersby seeing everything. A number of people in the flats complained but the landlord was a creepy old geezer who loved to eavesdrop and perv, so complaints fell on deaf ears.
Has anyone else ever done that and enjoyed it?seemed to have her noisy, thumping washing machine going all night long, where she'd sit on top of it making lots of 'ooooh' and 'aaaah' noises.
I'd tell them to pack it in otherwise I would be calling the the Police and it may end up going on their DBS check under "other information". This will stop them sharpish I'm telling you.I have new neighbours, they bought their house just before lockdown. They've partied all through lockdown. Each one is a 'one off', they've had over 20 since April. We have different versions of one offs. And for what ever reason, they come as close to my house as possible and as far away from theirs as possible as they don't want the neighbours at the back seeing what they do. I said I don't want to hear them, but it's made no difference. Theyre both teachers too, which baffles me. So, we're putting our house on the market. Can't phone the police as I would have to declare it on the house moving form... but once out of lockdown I reckon they'll go to weekly outside parties.
Having loud parties all the time is quite selfish anyway but to do it during lockdown... complete idiots. Could you call the police anonymously?I have new neighbours, they bought their house just before lockdown. They've partied all through lockdown. Each one is a 'one off', they've had over 20 since April. We have different versions of one offs. And for what ever reason, they come as close to my house as possible and as far away from theirs as possible as they don't want the neighbours at the back seeing what they do. I said I don't want to hear them, but it's made no difference. Theyre both teachers too, which baffles me. So, we're putting our house on the market. Can't phone the police as I would have to declare it on the house moving form... but once out of lockdown I reckon they'll go to weekly outside parties.
My friends had a neighbour who coughed (and phlegmed up) all the live long day. He lived underneath them and I think he had a drink problem. They went outside one morning to take their bins and and found him passed out in the bin shed. One day he disappeared and then they got a family who kept their toddlers in a cageWe also have or had the "Phantom cougher", I had no idea who it is but it would come from the old houses opposite which has predominantly elderly. It was a very loud, hacking cough that would go on ALL day and all night, constantly, if it was window open weather up until earlier this year.
Not sure about the random repairs but a neighbour who would help with bins would be heavenly. I share recycling bins with other flats and it seems separating paper from cans/glass/plastic seems to be too much for some people. Not to mention not putting food waste/domestic rubbish in with the recycling. Drives me up the fucking wall. Do I really want to be picking through the recycling to retrieve your KFC cartons? But if I don’t they won’t get emptied.Neighbour on the right, I’ll call him Bill.
Bill was about late 60’s and would always bring our wheely bins on the street when it was bin day. We thought it was cute at first but one day he knocked on our door and asked my housemate to move her car off the drive as he couldn’t reach our bins
Another time I went out to my car and found Bill rubbing T-cut all down the side of it over all the scratches that I’d made over the years.
Our Landlord and Bill (both retired I assumed) would always patrol the street and look out for things they could “fix”. We once saw them both on the roof fixing roof tiles of a random house across the street.
I was in a new build apartment once. It didn't hear much from below, I could certainly hear his farts, sex life and poor music choices all clear as day from above. Maybe if no one was living above you, a flat would be fine. However you will have to equally aware you may end up with a sensitive bastard down below.I can’t wait to move and not share a bedroom wall with someone so that I don’t need to listen to them having sex all of the time and grunting like pigs!
Do newer buildings have less issues with noise, even if it is a flat? Or are they just as bad as older building? (I’m in a tenement)
When you view places, tap on the joining walls to try and gauge how hollow they are. I've always found newer style buildings made of plaster board mainly to be crap and you hear everything. Older buildings with little insulation aren't great as you have found. It's a tricky one because even having an old chimney between the houses will carry noise, even if it's been blocked up. My next house i buy is going to be detachedOhWell now I don’t know what to do, lol. I wish I could afford a detached where I am - although I’d settle for a flat with thick walls, it’s not an easy thing to confirm whilst viewing!
We are in a newish build...built around 7 years ago we are second owners.I can’t wait to move and not share a bedroom wall with someone so that I don’t need to listen to them having sex all of the time and grunting like pigs!
Do newer buildings have less issues with noise, even if it is a flat? Or are they just as bad as older building? (I’m in a tenement)
Before my current flat I lived in a purpose built block that was built in 2004 I think so not super modern but newish - it was great for noise we barely heard our neighbours. Occasionally we’d hear the hoover or washing machine but never talking or music unless it was really loud.I can’t wait to move and not share a bedroom wall with someone so that I don’t need to listen to them having sex all of the time and grunting like pigs!
Do newer buildings have less issues with noise, even if it is a flat? Or are they just as bad as older building? (I’m in a tenement)
I live in a block of flats built in 2015 and I've never heard my neighbours on either side of us or above us. Our bedroom shares a wall with our neighbour's little girl, who was a baby when we all moved in. Never ever heard her cry at night. Huge difference compared to the Edwardian conversion we lived in before!I can’t wait to move and not share a bedroom wall with someone so that I don’t need to listen to them having sex all of the time and grunting like pigs!
Do newer buildings have less issues with noise, even if it is a flat? Or are they just as bad as older building? (I’m in a tenement)
This is exactly what I need! You’ve given me some reassurance, thank you.Before my current flat I lived in a purpose built block that was built in 2004 I think so not super modern but newish - it was great for noise we barely heard our neighbours. Occasionally we’d hear the hoover or washing machine but never talking or music unless it was really loud.
Can I move in with you?I live in a block of flats built in 2015 and I've never heard my neighbours on
Haha, unfortunately I contributed to this thread earlier about the twats living above us who use our garden as their wheelie bin.Can I move in with you?the dream!
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