I hate my neighbours

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Fight fire with fire!

Get a megaphone and some great big stereo speakers! Drown out their noise with whatever you want.. music, video game soundtracks, karaoke..

Go with bagpipes, it has the lovely effect of setting off all the dogs in the neighborhood howling.

Usually reacting that way makes it a whole lot worse.

I often bang on the ceiling with a mop whenever the noisy b***h upstairs keeps banging, but it has done nothing except make her bang even more, and now my boyfriend has taken the mop away.

If I were prime minister I would order the council to build lots of bungalows for the noise sensitive people so that we no longer have to put up with noisy motherf***ers that don't stop stomping and vacuuming in every room. What is it about upstairs neighbours and vacuum cleaners? Why are they so obsessed with having their home spotless?

God I hate her!

I am thinking of reporting my upstairs neighbour, but I suppose it won't do any good because how can you stop someone from moving about in their own home? On the other hand, she moves about TOO much, all day and all night. Whatever room I'm in, there she is above. I can hear her, scraping and stomping and banging right above my head. I never get a moment's peace. It wouldn't be so bad if she went out to work or went to bed at night or done some quiet activity especially at night time. Then I could tolerate any noise she would make and I'd put it down to normal everyday noise. But it becomes annoying when you hear her every hour of the day and night. Every floorboard in her bedroom creaks and it sounds like she's stepping across a squeaky, rickety old wooden bridge. She always seems to be doing something in her bedroom, her footsteps are so noisy that even white noise doesn't always drown it out, and I'm sick of having to have earplugs in all the time. She's always there, always doing something.

It's a catch-22 situation really because her noise isn't caused by antisocial behaviour, so there's nothing the landlords will do. But telling me to ignore it is bad advice because it's so distracting, and I'm easily distracted and have always been noise sensitive. I don't expect her to not ever move in her apartment but sometimes I just wish she'd stop moving on her feet and do an activity that involves sitting down. It's like she's always doing some sort of housecleaning all the time. It's not just noise that comes and goes, it's constant. Persistent. I'll record it and show it on here in this thread and I can tell you that it goes on all day and all night. Drawers opening and slamming shut. Loud squeaky cupboard doors always being opened. Repetitive bonking and bumping noises. Low scraping noises that sound like bowling balls. It goes on the same every day. Never stops. There's only her that lives there and we hardly see visitors going round, so I don't know how one person can make so much constant noise and manage to be in every room at once.

It's an invasion of my peace that I value sometimes. I'm sick of living near weirdos that don't live normal lives. If she's retired then she should bloody well go to a retirement home. A family with kids up there would make less noise, I tell you!

Last edited by Joe90 on 04 Jan 2022, 9:03 am, edited 1 time in total.

Ugh, I totally understand. My upstairs neighbours are constantly moving round today. They were up till midnight last night.

What are they doing? Sit down!

just a wild thought ... get them a laptop and get them addicted to some chat website they would like ? then maybe they would sit down to read and write to the internet ? Could not come up with any other ideas.? feel for you guys ...... am noise sensative too., i think that would make me feel crazy sometimes .

Fighting noise with noise defeats the purpose.
When constant noise drains you, the last thing you need is more noise.
And when your noise stops, theirs will still be there anyway.
Lose lose.

Fight it with a white noise generator then.

Or earplugs - far cheaper. Typically under $2, often free.

When I lived in town, my neighbours raced speedway.
So all week there'd be panelbeating, airtools, hammering and swearing.
Then they'd race on the Saturday night, rinse and repeat.
I moved.
Best thing I ever did.

I'd go mad. My daughter walks like an elephant on her wood floor (no offence darling), over my head.

Sometimes I swear she's ten pin bowling while moving a few pianos and blowing out the walls with explosives.

How the hell can people make so much noise?

I hope you can report it as a structural problem, or something?

I'd honestly lose my mind.

I have ear plugs. I swear by them. But my ear holes have become like a sl*t's v*****.

^ open all hours?

Maybe try some like these?

https://www.amazon.ca/Macks-Pillow-Sili ... 2903&psc=1

I have some at home I've never tried as the foam ones I use work fine for me. They're fairly big and I assume pliable - so they should fit even the sluttiest of ear holes.

Hmm not bad, maybe I will try those, thanks.

I still shouldn't have to wear earplugs all the time though, for a neighbour who can't control her noise. Like I said though, it isn't just normal everyday noises you might hear on and off throughout the day, it's constantly all day and all night. I don't know what on earth she finds to do every minute of the day and night.

LOL...At least they don't throw furniture at each other, and talk about their sexual methods ----at 3 in the morning.

This is what actually happened with people who lived right above me when I lived in an apartment in Gravesend, Brooklyn, in the early 80s.