Problem With Upstairs Neighbours Young Child
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Soldato
These kind of clueless keyboard warrior comments always make me laugh!
"Hello, this is the real world calling..."
Caporegime
Ahhhh Kronos I think I love you. That's pure evil genius.
Soldato
Bang on the ceiling with a broom handle until it stops, let them know how annoying it is.
Caporegime
I feel your pain OP. My gf and I were going to buy a flat in a block where each block was 6 flats and there were multiple blocks. Her parents bought one as an investment at the same time and ours fells through.
We ended up renting their flat for about a year or so until we found somewhere else to buy. Anyway, back on topic. The people above us were a nightmare. The soundproofing in the flats was non-existent to the point you could hear them talking at normal volume. They had loud sex, loved to stomp up and down the corridors, have shouting matches and our absolute favourite was the random parties and loud music at weird times.
They would be quiet until 11pm and then start a party on a tues night. You could always tell it was finishing because you would get a lovely rendition of 'we are the champions' from everyone there at about 3am.
Downstairs had about 5 dogs who were all badly behaved and weren't walked enough. They had a gravel area outside that was about 4m x 2m and they would charge about that fighting. That was also where they ****. Throughout most of the year the bint down there would stand just outside the door smoking while the dogs went nuts. I work from home and if I opened the window I was treated to the lovely aroma of dog **** and smoke. If I kept it closed I cooked and only had the pleasure of the sound of gravel flying everywhere and hitting their fence.
People who don't have noisy or inconsiderate neighbours don't realise how much it affects your life. Its like chinese water torture. They disturb your sleep and generally make your home a horrible place to live.
We now have a flat with concrete floors and you can barely hear anything. Much better and nicer neighbours as well.
I swear that if you could live in a house/flat for a week before renting/buying, 50% of people wouldn't take the property.
We ended up renting their flat for about a year or so until we found somewhere else to buy. Anyway, back on topic. The people above us were a nightmare. The soundproofing in the flats was non-existent to the point you could hear them talking at normal volume. They had loud sex, loved to stomp up and down the corridors, have shouting matches and our absolute favourite was the random parties and loud music at weird times.
They would be quiet until 11pm and then start a party on a tues night. You could always tell it was finishing because you would get a lovely rendition of 'we are the champions' from everyone there at about 3am.
Downstairs had about 5 dogs who were all badly behaved and weren't walked enough. They had a gravel area outside that was about 4m x 2m and they would charge about that fighting. That was also where they ****. Throughout most of the year the bint down there would stand just outside the door smoking while the dogs went nuts. I work from home and if I opened the window I was treated to the lovely aroma of dog **** and smoke. If I kept it closed I cooked and only had the pleasure of the sound of gravel flying everywhere and hitting their fence.
People who don't have noisy or inconsiderate neighbours don't realise how much it affects your life. Its like chinese water torture. They disturb your sleep and generally make your home a horrible place to live.
We now have a flat with concrete floors and you can barely hear anything. Much better and nicer neighbours as well.
I swear that if you could live in a house/flat for a week before renting/buying, 50% of people wouldn't take the property.
These kind of clueless keyboard warrior comments always make me laugh!
"Hello, this is the real world calling..."
As real as it maybe for you to put up with children, for some of us children and parents don't get special treatment.
Child free adults have the right to enjoy life, if the behaviour of an adult would not be tolerated then it is on the adults in charge of their children to make sure that that behaviour isn't being carried out by their kids.
Soldato
As real as it maybe for you to put up with children, for some of us children and parents don't get special treatment.
Child free adults have the right to enjoy life, if the behaviour of an adult would not be tolerated then it is on the adults in charge of their children to make sure that that behaviour isn't being carried out by their kids.
so you expect children to behave like adults, or at least have the parents try and make them behave like adults and not behave like children - at least that's how it reads to me!?
Caporegime
As real as it maybe for you to put up with children, for some of us children and parents don't get special treatment.
Child free adults have the right to enjoy life, if the behaviour of an adult would not be tolerated then it is on the adults in charge of their children to make sure that that behaviour isn't being carried out by their kids.
I...I agree with hurfdurf. How unusual!
Caporegime
There's a difference between acting like a child and acting like a ****.
If it makes you feel better, at least you didn't try any of that in Germany.
You would be facing a court appearance and VERY harsh fines, or possibly even a short stint in jail for your actions to date.
German laws that allow children the freedom of play/expression trump pretty much anything else residential law wise.
You would be facing a court appearance and VERY harsh fines, or possibly even a short stint in jail for your actions to date.
German laws that allow children the freedom of play/expression trump pretty much anything else residential law wise.
No, I expect children to behave as children, but I expect that behaviour to be in line with what would be acceptable from adults. If an adult wants to watch kids cartoons and eat childrens meals from McDonalds, or cry because he spilt his coke, that is fine.
If a kid wants to make so much noise at an unsociable hour it is deemed unacceptable by the council, that is unacceptable, and the adults should be preventing it in the same way they would prevent themselves doing so.
Exactly.
If your take-home point of what has been said above is that we are expecting toddlers to behave like adults then you are clearly a bit lacking in the grey matter department.
Read the OP. The council won't do anything. The problem is probably just the banging due to poor insulation between flats.
The kid isn't running around screaming etc. The adults aren't shouting and balling etc. It's a crappy building.
It's what you get living in a flat.
The kid isn't running around screaming etc. The adults aren't shouting and balling etc. It's a crappy building.
It's what you get living in a flat.
Not if its been built correctly. If I was the OP I would be insisting on the sound test results from when the flat was originally built. It might be so old that this wasn't a regulation at the time, in which case, buyer beware I guess? I have no idea of the rules.
Soldato
Umm ok Einstein. Was I quoting you or taking anything home from your posts Mr Clever clogs?
If you think I was then it's you that's lacking in the grey matter department. Personally I'd have a noisy kid over a smart arse know it all like you but each to their own.
These kind of clueless keyboard warrior comments always make me laugh!
"Hello, this is the real world calling..."
Adults who feel the need to have children should obey the rules put forward by the council, any residents under that roof no matter what age they are need to obey it. The parents should be stopping the kid making so much noise.
Still think you should have to take a test before you can legally have kids.
I had this when i lived below a small child and i didn't care, kids will be kids. It was an understanding between us as i liked to play my home cinema quite loud.
Soldato
of course there is but expecting a childs behaviour to be bound by the constraints faced by adults? really?
you can't honestly think that children's behavior should be governed by what is acceptable for an adult to do?
as an extreme example, it's not really acceptable for an adult to poke at their pee pee in a public place but you'd be up in arms if a young child was doing the same?! seriously?
agreed, whole heartedly. but that is totally different to expecting children to behave how you would expect an adult to behave
