Anyone ever lived in a tower block

I lived on the Ferrier Estate in SE London. So bleak they filmed Nil by Mouth there.
It was as desolate and lawless a hellhole as the film portrayed.
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I lived in flat 1 out of 49 for a year last year, I never heard my neighbours in my living room at all. I was at one corner of the building and my flat had a 15 foot by 4 foot... cupboard, I guess? that seperated me from them. My other walls were external, or butted up against the next building. I never felt bad for making noise at all. I could however hear them if I was right by my front door, but who spends much time there.

My bedroom, on the other hand, was a different story. I was right by one of three doors to the building, and every morning at about 6:30 everyone would start stomping down the stairs and slamming the front door to the building to go out. I also lived right opposite some train tracks. And the postboxes for the building were next to my bedroom wall. And if people were coming home in the middle of the night from being out on the drink I could hear their long drunken goodbyes/arguments/fights/phone calls while they went out for a cigarette.

Don't miss it at all, the first few days in this house (3 bed semi in a different town entirely, family type area) were so quiet it's almost eerie. I love it.
 
Moved into one on Saturday. Finding it OK so far, the noise is a funny one. I can hear my neighbour doing a widdle, but no other noise seems to come through. That, or they just don't make any noise.
 
I've only ever lived in flats as a child, Cavendish Mansions (6th flr) - Clerkenwell and Brunswick centre (7th flr) - Russell Square. I absolutely loved it, especially at the Brunswick. Like a rabbit warren with nooks and crannies everywhere BUT never venture down in to the underground car pack aka cardboard city; ZOMBIES!
 
Me and the Mrs live in a ten story block, it was renovated three years ago just before we moved in and it's lovely. Insulation is crazy as we never use the heating unless its wicked cold. Plus the view isnt too bad :D
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I'm in a 2*3 block of flats, been here a few years.
First 2-3 months it seemed quiet, but that didn't last.

There's some old alcoholic in flat above that goes out around 0630 & comes back drunk 1100-1300, shouting & swearing if anyone's locked front door to the block. Even though a simple press of trades button would get him in. Will then proceed to butcher Elvis songs as struggling up the stairs, followed by slamming doors/cupboards until eventually passes out.

And then there's the younger alcoholic in the flat below...Finally got council to get them to shut their music off at all hours (for how long though...), but the idiot still groans like a ghost from Scooby Doo, along with death threats, but any time I see it in public it keeps its distance.

Chav's to side have a mutt that howls at times, but they've been quiet since police had words with them. Oh & for some reason, they have at times thrown up out of the rear windows instead of bathroom, charming... Rest seem quietish.

Flat itself is large, far more than I really need by a long shot.
 
Kronos said:
I am open to suggestions as to what other method I can use to try and knock some sort of sense of showing consideration to me and my family when talking has had no effect.
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Well, the two things you mention in your post are that their floor is noisy and that they babysit for an unruly child on occassion. While having done a shoddy job of laying a floor isn't great its not exactly malicious. Also looking after a child for family/friends is a decent thing to do, especially if the kid is a handful.

If they were having parties every night or playing loud music at 4am I'd get where you are coming from.

Are you showing much consideration for them? Babysitting for a noisy kid aside, re-laying a floor might not be financially viable for them and you retaliating with the sander is only likely to make them less inclined to do so.
 
I did for a couple of years when I lived in Aberdeen, on the 9th (top) floor. I didn't mind it, although when the wind picked up you could hear it and feel it a bit. The entire building was for people working in the public sector, education etc as part of an affordable living scheme run by the council and the entire building and the flats were newly renovated and furnished when I moved in so there were never any issues with neighbours. The surrounding area was crap though, I can't say I miss it.
 
Could never do it. People above you, people below you, people alongside you either side... just endless noise. I find it bad enough currently dealing with the ground floor flat of the converted house I'm in.
 
I'm currently been living in a bottom floor of a 12 apartment block for over 4 years, it was only meant to be temporay but I got lazy and never found anywhere else.

I hate it! it's always dark and damp (being in Manchester), I can hear the people upstairs; new people move in cause so much noise till they run out of money, lucky my neighbour is quite. I have to hand over the keys at the end of the month as it's been sold by the company that I was renting it from; They orginally wanted me to move out on the 4th of Jan! Hopefully I'll get the keys to my new house next week as I'm in the last stage of house buying else I will have to put all my stuff into storage and be homeless for a week or two until I get the keys for the new place.
 
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