Perceived as a noisy neighbour

I'm sorry but if what the OP said is true and his music is at around 70db then the neighbours are being *********. I played music at around 70db and stood in the room next to mine with my room door open and the room I was in, the door closed. I could hardly hear it and even a TV on low volume would drown all, if not most of the sound out and this is through a wooden door, not a (likely) stone wall. At 5:30pm, the neighbours are having a laugh.
 
I will try out the foam idea as well. Or perhaps some spikes. I hadn't really considered the speaker placement to be a big deal, but they may be getting vibrations through the wall. The sill sits on plasterboard coming from the exterior wall.

The thing is my dad has had so many issues with his neighbours complaining about tree heights and my car being left on the drive for long periods. Just ridiculous things. They had a solicitor draft a letter saying he was harassing them and letting his dogs trespass and urinate in their garden. He doesn't have dogs. Then they said ants from his property were coming into theirs and being destructive. Some people will just never be happy.
 
I wouldn't want to be able to hear any noise from my neighbours.

If it was me, I would buy myself some nice headphones, with Bluetooth maybe. I might also write a note to the neighbours explaining I had done so and apologising for disturbing them. Then there's more harmony in the world, plus I think the sound can be pretty much as good. I would rather have a slightly worse listening experience than disturb someone else.

Rgds
 
milgo said:
I will try out the foam idea as well. Or perhaps some spikes. I hadn't really considered the speaker placement to be a big deal, but they may be getting vibrations through the wall. The sill sits on plasterboard coming from the exterior wall.
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My personal view is that speakers are for detached houses, headphones are for flats. I have a flat and use headphones, it's considerate to the neighbours.

Rgds
 
IMO you should try and keep it down but in no way are you in the wrong for listening to music in your own space at reasonable times and at a reasonable level.
 
EVH said:
Work harder, move out.
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Work harder? Hope you don't mean people that live in flats are lazy in some way :)

I live in a ground floor flat and am mindful of any noise I make... And my neighbours above pop down if they are having a gathering (like tonight) and say to pop up if the noise is too loud for me and my sons...

Part and parcel of living so close to everyone....

Mart
 
The walls in flats can be really thin. And its annoying. When I lived in a flat a few years back I could hear the neighbours upstairs, and the ones to my right. TV, Music, chatter, Sexy time.

But I figured they could hear me doing the same stuff. So left it alone.

They never knocked on my wall, or said anything about my noise.

its just generally understood that noise will bleed through.

if the OP isnt being silly with his sound equipment, I would try and explain that. And that you will never play it too early or too late. But they have to realise the walls are thin, and they have to be adaptive.
 
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iMacMart said:
Work harder? Hope you don't mean people that live in flats are lazy in some way :)
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This definitely.

I used to live in flats and I really miss them. Whilst neighbours can be noisy, flats are generally more friendly IMO. For example, my neighbours would all take my parcels and i'd help out with computers :p
 
You really need to know how loud it is for them when you think it's a reasonable volume for you ... otherwise there is now way of knowing how justified their complaints are.

Yes if you live in a flat, or a semi/terraced house, then you should be mindful of those around you but I don't think you should expect to hear zero noise from the people around you and they shouldn't expect that from you. I live in a semi and at the moment I can just hear a TV next door and the foot steps of the kids running around ... do I have an issue with that ... not really.

My previous neighbour here was a nutcase ... I am a very quiet person, (I go to work very early so am normally in bed asleep by 10pm and have probably been watching TV collapsed on it using headphones for quite some time before then. Even during the weekend I don't tend to have music on much). It got to the stage where if she heard any noise at all she would start shouting and banging on the walls ... and I mean any noise (in the summer, windows open, I even had a complaint about opening and closing a DVD players drawer!). I saw her charging around one Saturday morning ready to have a right go ... only when she got 3/4 of the way she realised the noise was the neighbour on the other side of me mowing his lawn.

In the end I flipped the master power off on the fuse box, went around and asked about the current noise level. She said it was still to loud ... so I wrote to her explaining what I had done (and the various other issues up to that point) and if she continued as she was then I would be reporting her for harassment. She left the following month (the night before she moved out she put radios on full blast in every room all night and went and stayed at her Mum's ... I could barely hear them and slept soundly :)). Then the current lot moved in and no problems since.
 
Reasonable approach: Drop an apologitic note through their door saying that you'd like to dsicuss the matter with them in an amicable and polite manner so that you can become good neighbours etc etc ..... take it from there.
 
I live in a semi detached house and am always mindful of my own noise levels. I have an electric guitar but only ever tend to play it before 9pm. After that i use headphones.

Same with when I listen to music, always got to be mindful of the bass levels as thats what travels. If im playing computer games though, especially shooters, i will always use headphones.

I do appreciate that noise anoys people, as it would annoy me at inappropriate times. Just got to accept it really.
 
Derek W said:
surprised no one has suggested this.....he bangs on your wall.....you bang his wife :p

/GD response
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Or stand and bang back ;)

piggeh said:
I used to play my tv too loudly. Was embarrassing when the neighbours came round the day after I'd been watching porn to ask if I can keep the TV turned down in the future.
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Ha ha. :D

I wonder how many people are being disturbed by him banging on the wall. Surely the people living upstairs can hear it.
 
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