Erm don't think that is true, if your noise is impacting on others at any time then they can complain to the relevant authorities.
Is my neighbour being an idiot about noise from my flat?
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Erm don't think that is true, if your noise is impacting on others at any time then they can complain to the relevant authorities.
IMO nobody spends £7000 on a sound system to have the bass/volume at a reasonable level, credit to you for trying to dampen the noise but clearly it's not working.
You might be on the right side of the law but it's not very neighbourly to disregard a neighbours complaints, even if he did once have a loud late night party.
You might be on the right side of the law but it's not very neighbourly to disregard a neighbours complaints, even if he did once have a loud late night party.
The kind of guy who has a harem of attractive women, but doesn't sleep with any of them because he doesn't swing that way! What a waste
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Noise in flats can be a nightmare. The bloke upstairs complained with a rather rude letter pushed through the letterbox claiming the game I was playing on the PC was too loud.
Every saturday morning his missus plays music really loud when I guess he's out, wakes me up sometimes. I turn up the TV to drown it out.
Its not worth getting drawn into an argument. I've been there in the past in my old place and its a descent into hell. I've had major bust ups in the past and even one guy was violent and had to have the police called out on him on more than one occasion. I moved out in the end, living with a nutter downstairs was more stress than I need in my life. C'est la vie.
But to get back to the OP just saying "ignore the guy" isn't very helpful he probably isn't going to let it go, expect to receive letters from the council's Noise Abatement dept, they will take his word for it until it can be proved otherwise, expect visits from council officers armed with decibel readers, etc.
Every saturday morning his missus plays music really loud when I guess he's out, wakes me up sometimes. I turn up the TV to drown it out.
Its not worth getting drawn into an argument. I've been there in the past in my old place and its a descent into hell. I've had major bust ups in the past and even one guy was violent and had to have the police called out on him on more than one occasion. I moved out in the end, living with a nutter downstairs was more stress than I need in my life. C'est la vie.
But to get back to the OP just saying "ignore the guy" isn't very helpful he probably isn't going to let it go, expect to receive letters from the council's Noise Abatement dept, they will take his word for it until it can be proved otherwise, expect visits from council officers armed with decibel readers, etc.
I must be really lucky living in a cheap and nasty new build but the sound proofing has always been excellent. I can count on one hand the number of times I have heard a neighbour doing anything in the 5 years I have been there, and I have only been asked once to turn my stuff down - that was because I had a window wide open.