Originally Posted by Restless (Post 832735)

i think people should be allowed a little leeway at weekends to party or whatever, within reason of course.

I've moved into a gable end house, its nice to have only one neighbor to terrorize with my guitar playing :hehetable

Originally Posted by Restless (Post 832735)

i think people should be allowed a little leeway at weekends to party or whatever, within reason of course.

I've moved into a gable end house, its nice to have only one neighbor to terrorize with my guitar playing :hehetable

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 832739)

Crap the leeway should be given to folk wi kids n the elderly.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 832757)

You wouldn't be saying that if you'd have lived in the block of flats where I live, the drunken prat who had an upstairs flat made our lives a misery for 18 months, until he final did a runner before he was kicked out. Its no fun drunks shouting a bawling at 3 and 4 o'clock in a morning virtually every night:mad:

Originally Posted by Restless (Post 832764)

I often have a few drinks with a few friends and we are drinking till perhaps 3 or 4 in the morning and playing music too, but i have the good sense to keep it down to under low conversation level of sound, you would only be able to hear it if you had a glass to the wall, or perhaps a directional microphone. But it is my experience that some people complain because they still see the light on.

Then again i wouldn't live in a block of flats, certainly not after my experience in that apartment on scaitcliffe street.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 832784)

Unfortunately some people have no choice, besides I've live in my present flat for 20 years with no problems until that prat moved in, and most of the disturbance was outside his flat for everybody to here

Originally Posted by Restless (Post 832786)

the guy was obviously an idiot. Living in flats you would have to have even more consideration for others than you would in a house

How many flats is there in the block? Do you hear when people are walking above you?. The place on scaitliffe street was really bad for that, you would think 100 people where jumping up and down

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 832789)

For flat dwellers the use of headphones should be a condition of the tenancy - also carpets with thick underlay, as opposed to that 'trendy' artificial floorboard stuff.

Landlords could reduce the tenant turnover rate if they took sound nuisance more seriously by sound insulating communal stairwells. The bare brick and concrete look amplifies any sound. There are such things as rubber flooring and acoustic wall tiles which would absorb sound in those areas.

PS I have a neighbour who talks to himself, loudly, and stomps up and down the stairwell in boots at all hours of the night. When his door slams, my bed shakes.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 832789)

When his door slams, my bed shakes.

Originally Posted by Less (Post 832817)

We all have our fantasies some of us just don't put them on the www.
:rolleyes: