VioletKnight wrote:
Tamaya wrote:
The floors/ceilings are very thin, and the previous resident up there took all the carpets out so there just seems to be hard floor up there.
Nobody in the world can make the neighbours stop making a noise, but the doctor might be able to help me get up higher on the council housing list. We're on it already, and despite explaining all the issues in the application, we're still in the lowest priority band. It's because our issues with the neighbours come under grey areas, and so an Aspie/ADHDer with certain sound sensitivity issues just doesn't get taken seriously by the council nor the landlords. But having a medical note signed by the doctor might help, because if living in my own home requires reliance on headphones and earplugs then it's time to look for a place where nobody will be living above. I can cope with everyday noises coming from either side or below, but when they come from above it seems louder and more consistent. I mean someone's only got to walk across the room up there and it's like an elephant is up there to us, where as people in the house next door can walk across the room without you hearing it, at least not directly above your head anyway.
Obviously antisocial noise like all-night parties can be a thing, but then I'd have reasons to complain. My current situation is not a valid complaint, as you can't stop people from moving around in their own home. I get that. That's why I need to move but my reasons aren't valid enough to be prioritised a new place.
Just not having carpet shouldn't make such a relatively quiet activity like sweeping so loud though. There might be something else wrong with the place. I've lived in several apartment buildings over the course of my life and none of them had this issue. In some it was easier to hear the neighbors through the walls, but the only way you would heard them through the ceilings or floors was if they were being
extremely loud, like blasting music at full volume. It's really strange, and concerning, that your ceiling is apparently so thin.
I think it's the way they knock the brush against the skirting-boards just vibrates down the walls. It seems to be the loudest activity they do, although I can hear them doing most other things too but their sweeping of the floors seems the most obvious sound.
The floors seem to be that thin. I have recordings of it that I don't know how to post on here, but even just 5 minutes of it would be enough to drive you mad. It's not just the sweeping, they're on the move up there all day and most the night, and hardly ever go out (they always seem to be in whenever we're in, no matter what time of the day it is).
I can tell my partner gets fed up with me having to keep taking my earplugs or headphones out to hear him say something to me. So this constant neighbour noise is affecting our communication. It's okay for him, he is an NT male and can block it out and focus on things, I don't have the ability to do that. He knows that but he doesn't always understand. Just hearing them doing anything up there just makes me see red. I can't bear it. It's all right for them, they're on the top floor, we're quiet as mice for them below, and they've got nobody above them stamping about and making a noise. I want to swap with them, but the landlords just ignore my emails and calls, and we're not really socially close enough to the people upstairs to discuss this type of thing with them.
Someone online once gave me a link to a page that was for noise complaints, but it's no use to me because my noise complaints aren't listed in the options. It's a bit of a catch-22 really, and I don't know how to resolve it. We've been living below them for 3 and a half years now and I got fed up with it a long time ago.
24 Aug 2025, 6:07 pm
