Devastated :(

I'm afraid I don't have any sound clips but I am going to consider start recording on my own. I have contemplated going to a solicitor but I will see what the Housing have to say to my mum on Tuesday.

I have a gut feeling though it will be only to confirm what we already have established, they won't help further.

Oh, and as for the silly jokes, leave off now please.
 
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sparky05084 said:
I'm afraid I don't have any sound clips but I am going to consider start recording on my own. I have contemplated going to a solicitor but I will see what the Housing have to say to my mum on Tuesday.

I have a gut feelong though it will be only to confirm what we already have established, they won't help further.

Oh, and as for the silly jokes, leave off now please.
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Buy an EVP recorder, I use them on my ghost investigations but damn it did work for my next door neighbour too!. :D
 
have you tried speaking to your local councillor? Are other neighbours affected?

Councillors can generally cause a nuisance at a council and get things moving.
 
The next stage is to see what the Housing have to say at this meeting. Even if it's a threatening letter to say they are being monitored etc then that should be enough but to tell us they can't further help is taking the complete and utter ****.

Having said that, even a letter may not suffice. They are all empty heads and I have approached the mothers son on 2 occassions and very politley asked him to be respectful and tone the noise down.

I feel the 3rd ocassion I might have to introduce him to my friend called fist.
 
Iv'e been holding back now for months. I know who's doing it and worst still he knows that I know.

Trouble is, If I give him a pasting then I will jepordise our own tenancy and you can bet the Hosuing will then turn the tables on us.
 
sparky05084 said:
The next stage is to see what the Housing have to say at this meeting. Even if it's a threatening letter to say they are being monitored etc then that should be enough but to tell us they can't further help is taking the complete and utter ****.

Having said that, even a letter may not suffice. They are all empty heads and I have approached the mothers son on 2 occassions and very politley asked him to be respectful and tone the noise down.

I feel the 3rd ocassion I might have to introduce him to my friend called fist.
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Giving him a good fisting ought to sort it out, for sure.
 
darael said:
Sounds as though the dividing walls are made of paper.
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This. If you live in a badly built house you will hear noise even if it's snoring.

As hash as it sounds you can't expect the rest of the street to go to bed at 10 every night and not make a squeak.

People are entitled to open doors, cook, clean, talk, watch TV etc. I suggest you ask for alternative accommodation where the walls are thinker or the people are less active during the night.

My mother was very sensitive to noise too so I know what you're going through. It still haunts me now.

Good luck :)
 
Stretch said:
People are entitled to open doors, cook, clean, talk, watch TV etc. I suggest you ask for alternative accommodation where the walls are thinker or the people are less active during the night.

Good luck :)
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errr wrong to a point :rolleyes:

The law states 11pm and it's based on DB, if you put on a washing machine and it breaks the DB level and can be heard by the next door neighbours causing you to constantly wake up then it's against the law.

Think i'll move next door to Stretch, put my sub against the wall and turn it up, but hey doesn't matter as i'm entitled to it ;)
 
Neil79 said:
errr wrong to a point :rolleyes:

The law states 11pm and it's based on DB, if you put on a washing machine and it breaks the DB level and can be heard by the next door neighbours causing you to constantly wake up then it's against the law.

Think i'll move next door to Stretch, put my sub against the wall and turn it up, but hey doesn't matter as i'm entitled to it ;)
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If you break the DB level then yes. But as we've already established a washing machine doesn't and the sounds recordings show this.

You 're not expected to be completely silent all night and all of the things I've listed wouldn't come over the threshold. The limit is their to stop idiots putting their "sub" on after 11pm.
 
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Look, Im not saying that I expect everyone to live like we do or go to bed when we do etc etc. You can argue the you know what with that. Everyone has a right to live their lives peacefully and that includes us.

Now, we do expect to hear some noise and that is the perils of living in terraced blocks. However, the disturbances we are experiencing is not what I would class as general hosuehold nose and it is clear to me they are taking the biscuit.

From around 10:30pm it kicks off and goes on AFTER 11PM. We feel lucky if it stops at midnight. Sometimes noise goes on until the very early hours (on and off till 3/4am).

It's purposeful and we hear "knocking" on the walls and laughing and still the housing say it's not enough.
 
sparky05084 said:
Look, Im not saying that I expect everyone to live like we do or go to bed when we do etc etc. You can argue the you know what with that. Everyone has a right to live their lives peacefully and that includes us.

Now, we do expect to hear some noise and that is the perils of living in terraced blocks. However, the disturbances we are experiencing is not what I would class as general hosuehold nose and it is clear to me they are taking the biscuit.

From around 10:30pm it kicks off and goes on AFTER 11PM. We feel lucky if it stops at midnight. Sometimes noise goes on until the very early hours (on and off till 3/4am).

It's purposeful and we hear "knocking" on the walls and laughing and still the housing say it's not enough.
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As others have said, it's a really difficult one - obviously we can't hear the noise, and I know people in the past who have asked me to keep it down when all I was doing was watching the news at 7am. At the same time, I've been on the other end with parties going on all night in the flat next door to mine midweek.

We're not getting at you, but there's always going to be a degree of scepticism with threads like this as people's tolerance levels differ so widely.

What was the outcome of the mediation your mum went to? Was an agreement reached?
 
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Iv'e been holding back now for months. I know who's doing it and worst still he knows that I know.

Trouble is, If I give him a pasting then I will jepordise our own tenancy and you can bet the Hosuing will then turn the tables on us.
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So why dont they turn the tables on "them"?

Do things that could "just happen from natural circumstances" you know what I mean, some guys kids scratched my car (I know for sure) so I drilled a hole in his exhaust ******r
 
The outcome of the mediation was that my mum agreed with the mother of said family to not record disturbances for a few days and we would allow them time to adjust and correct their noise levels.

It improved for 2 days then went right back up again. The mother even mentioned at mediation that when she confronted her son (main perpetrator) about the whole situation his reply was "**** em".

Says it all really.
 
I know your feeling. I have a dog barking all through the day and night in the house behind my garden, at random times... generally its worst when im home off nights and its barking on a morning. yet it doesnt seem to do it when they are recording.
 
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