How To Deal With Noisy Neighbours

kingjamesuk

Noisy, noisy Britain!!! This is the 5th flat I have lived in in 4 years. Each time I move I find myself up half the night listening to the noise created by others. This is just ridiculous. I am about to move again. It seems that the first problem is poorly insulated or non-soundproofed walls and ceilings. This should be made compulsory buy the government, not just encouraged. Landlords will save themselves a lot of trouble by doing this professionally and accurately. However, the chances of any Landlords doing this at all is very remote indeed. Old buildings are not designed to house numerous occupants and are certainly not designed to be converted into flats. New building may be purpose built but are often made of cheap materials and paper thin walls, floors and ceilings. As we become more and more angry as a nation, we lose respect for ourselves and then for others. The attitude today is very much 'dog eat dog' and it seems that most of us don't give a damn about others. This is reflected in the levels of disrespectful noise. Arguments, music, slamming doors (don't we all just hate those awful fire doors), TV, musicians, parties, drug dealers, police visits, noisy boilers, creaky floorboards, pizza delivery, doorbells, fighting, laminate and wooden flooring, moving of furniture late at night, fitness workouts, coughing, toilet flushing, late night cooking, speaking loudly on the phone, sex, children, all add up to a lot of NOISE!!! I believe that there are just too many people crammed too closely together in poky little flats and houses, all connected together in poorly insulated buildings. I have no faith in seeking help as the system doesn't really seem to care. Why would wealthy ministers be concerned with the noise of the masses when they live in detached houses set in quite neighborhoods? Until the noise effects them there will be very little done about it. My advice is to pay out for all the soundproofing you can get (if you own your property) or keep moving (if you rent). I would not rely on 'systems' and Government 'policies' and 'procedures'.

James_T

I wish the government would impose greater regulations on houses in terms of soundproofing. I moved into a new flat and I was astonished that I could hear the TV of my upstairs and downstairs neighbours - even though they only had it on normal volume. The older houses in Britain are usually not great either. They packed us close together to reduce cost in times gone by.

rtjsjtrjj

what a laugh, i live on a council esatate, i work and pay my rent and everything else i dont get hand outs, my next door neighbours complained about the local teens partying till late ate night, police stated they dont deal with noise on a council estate so she asked what about abusive behaviour, they dont deal with this neither, you have to be physicaly assaulted on a council estate before the police will attend any disturbance, they complained to there council officer who went around to the teens houses informed them a complaint had been put to her and who did it, there car was burnt out the house was bricked, my hneighbours where moved out for there own safety the teens still here what does this tell me POLICE only want an easy life dont deal with council estates Council move the problem or make sure the complainent has to be moved ps council officer is auntie to one of the teens !!!!!!! shot gun works though lad hasnt walked for 6 months.

angry386

My neighbours about 8 people rent the house next door,after repeatedly calling the enviromental health for their loud italian music they have turned t down and are now all chatting and isinging as loud as they can till 5am or even not sleeping at all in order to make my life a misery .When I tell them to turn the noise down their reaction is the same as scoring a goal at a football match.When I called the enviromental health they witness the loud noise but stated there was nothing they can do as they deal with loud music only the council have referred me to calm for mediation but which one of them d they think will be interested.I watched Death Note the movie and wished I could write there names for them to disappear.I have moved 3 times beccause of nois neighbours and it ooks like another move I am really getting tired of selfish inconciderate people and the helpers are a waste of time

pokerdot83

hey there, just moved into my nice new frlat after a year of domestic violence, found my neighbours are smack dealers!! gettin 25 quid a week for heatin and 300 a fortnight for sickness, as my delightful neighbour as apparently got mental health issues, i have several videos of drug dealings and taking, loud music recoprding and vocal recordings on how he's going to kill me, so glad i WORK and pay my taxes as the legal and council system refuse to do anything, i am a quiet person, but do u rememebr the saying ' the quiet ones are the worst' well trust me, i'd do time fer this tit, it seems as thou we need to take things into our own hands instead of pen pushing, whilst u spend so much time detailing every minor detail on this pathetic mortals life, they are still doing ur hed in. so this time next week i shall be up in court for murder but with a plead of insanity so then i may get a fully furnished appartment and 700 quid a month GOD BLESS GORDON BROWN!!!

gesmal

I have 3 noisy neighbours who live below me, i've complained to the environmental health and written to the council representative, all to no avail, i have even talked to my neighbours and all i got was abuse, now my neighbours ignore me and make even more noise, i live on the top floor of a block of flats, and my neighbours have either no carpet on the floor or laminated flooring, according to my neighbours, its me making the noise, even though i work five nights and try to sleep during the day, it feels like a heard of elephants are stampeeding below me some days, the council representive has sided with the neighbours below me, i think it is because they are on the neighbourhood comittee, i,m dealing with ignorance against a brick wall here, any suggestions???

chesterfi14

I have a neighbour who has turned his garden shed into a recording studio he jams with his band from around 5.00pm till just before 12 midnight is there any solution othering than getting the heavies onto him as this is my first option. Oh yes last saturday night at 3.00am til 4.00am he bashed away on his drumkit

fruit punch

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we get woken up every morning at half five by our next doors ducks quacking ducks. i am a nurse and work 12 hr shifts,im so tired.i have spoken to them but to no avail.

i had a friend move upstairs with her kids. she put laminate flooring all through the house. the noise is making me and my families life hell, tried to talk to her but to no avail, the only option is to move home