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dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
edited January 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
When living in an apartment, at what point do you call it acceptable to band against your ceiling to tell those noisy neighbors of yours to shut the hell up?!

It sounds like Wrestlemania is goin' up there, fuck.
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  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,940
    i say just put up with it, that way they can't be pissed at you when you do the same thing
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    mookeywrench wrote:
    i say just put up with it, that way they can't be pissed at you when you do the same thing

    I'm pretty tolerant for that exact reason but I would stop after the initial complaint. I'm pretty sure it's a kid, so I usually wait it out for a moment but after a while you begin to wonder when the parentals will step in.

    Oh yeah, and no matter how hot you are, no one wants to hear you have sex. 8-)
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    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
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  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    If it's really bad, politely go upstairs and knock, and let them know that sound easily travels through their floor. They may not know how loud they are being. They may not be doing anything wrong, and that's just how the aprtment is (I used to live under a HEAVY walker ... and she was all of 95 pounds).

    Don't bang on the ceiling, that's childish.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    dcfaithful wrote:
    When living in an apartment, at what point do you call it acceptable to band against your ceiling to tell those noisy neighbors of yours to shut the hell up?!

    It sounds like Wrestlemania is goin' up there, fuck.

    Depends what time of day or night it is. My neighbour here started hammering on the floor above at 1am a few months ago so I went up there and started kicking his door in. He came to the door all sheepish and I told him in no uncertain terms to shut the fuck up.

    I had a neighbour back in England who used to deliberately bang on the floor above to wind me up - he was an alcoholic idiot with no life and a big chip on his shoulder. I ended up getting the council involved to try and evict him but they were useless - just sent him letters e.t.c. I even put a brick through his window one night but that still didn't do the trick.
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Byrnzie wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    When living in an apartment, at what point do you call it acceptable to band against your ceiling to tell those noisy neighbors of yours to shut the hell up?!

    It sounds like Wrestlemania is goin' up there, fuck.

    Depends what time of day or night it is. My neighbour here started hammering on the floor above at 1am a few months ago so I went up there and started kicking his door in. He came to the door all sheepish and I told him in no uncertain terms to shut the fuck up.

    I had a neighbour back in England who used to deliberately bang on the floor above to wind me up - he was an alcoholic idiot with no life and a big chip on his shoulder. I ended up getting the council involved to try and evict him but they were useless - just sent him letters e.t.c. I even put a brick through his window one night but that still didn't do the trick.

    Damn, you've had some interesting neighbors I take it.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    jimed14 wrote:
    If it's really bad, politely go upstairs and knock, and let them know that sound easily travels through their floor. They may not know how loud they are being. They may not be doing anything wrong, and that's just how the aprtment is (I used to live under a HEAVY walker ... and she was all of 95 pounds).

    Don't bang on the ceiling, that's childish.

    I should, and will go knock the next time...it's normally not like me to bang on the ceiling, kinda just got caught on a bad day.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • Jokertt14Jokertt14 Posts: 2,566
    i have found the more u bitch about it the more it seems to happen .
  • __ Posts: 6,651
    jimed14 wrote:
    If it's really bad, politely go upstairs and knock, and let them know that sound easily travels through their floor. They may not know how loud they are being. They may not be doing anything wrong, and that's just how the aprtment is (I used to live under a HEAVY walker ... and she was all of 95 pounds).

    Don't bang on the ceiling, that's childish.

    I agree. It's rude to bang on the ceiling and I don't think you should be rude unless they are clearly & intentionally being rude to you first. They probably just don't realize how loud they are and would be more than happy to keep it down if you asked them nicely. If you're rude about it, they may just decide you're an asshole and keep it up just to spite you. Better to have a good relationship with your neighbors.

    I would also recommend asking them to let you know if ever you're being too loud, and maybe exchanging phone numbers so you can communicate about these things without having to get dressed and go to the other person's apartment. I have done this with my current neighbor and it's worked well. She's in college and I'm usually pretty patient about parties & such. But when they were being really loud on the night before my GRE, I sent her a text and asked her to keep it down. Apparently she wasn't even home and her boyfriend (who doesn't even live there) was just less considerate when he was there alone.

    I once tripped over some boxes in the middle of the night when I first moved into an upstairs apartment and the downstairs neighbor banged on the ceiling. I had hurt myself kinda badly and I was fucking pissed that she would assume I was just being inconsiderate and, in turn, be rude to me. Maybe she should have asked if I was okay or something.
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    scb wrote:
    jimed14 wrote:
    If it's really bad, politely go upstairs and knock, and let them know that sound easily travels through their floor. They may not know how loud they are being. They may not be doing anything wrong, and that's just how the aprtment is (I used to live under a HEAVY walker ... and she was all of 95 pounds).

    Don't bang on the ceiling, that's childish.

    I agree. It's rude to bang on the ceiling and I don't think you should be rude unless they are clearly & intentionally being rude to you first. They probably just don't realize how loud they are and would be more than happy to keep it down if you asked them nicely. If you're rude about it, they may just decide you're an asshole and keep it up just to spite you. Better to have a good relationship with your neighbors.

    I would also recommend asking them to let you know if ever you're being too loud, and maybe exchanging phone numbers so you can communicate about these things without having to get dressed and go to the other person's apartment. I have done this with my current neighbor and it's worked well. She's in college and I'm usually pretty patient about parties & such. But when they were being really loud on the night before my GRE, I sent her a text and asked her to keep it down. Apparently she wasn't even home and her boyfriend (who doesn't even live there) was just less considerate when he was there alone.

    I once tripped over some boxes in the middle of the night when I first moved into an upstairs apartment and the downstairs neighbor banged on the ceiling. I had hurt myself kinda badly and I was fucking pissed that she would assume I was just being inconsiderate and, in turn, be rude to me. Maybe she should have asked if I was okay or something.

    Yeah, so I think I'll take tihs route next time. I'm beginning to think I came off a little assholeish. :?
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • __ Posts: 6,651
    dcfaithful wrote:
    scb wrote:
    I agree. It's rude to bang on the ceiling and I don't think you should be rude unless they are clearly & intentionally being rude to you first. They probably just don't realize how loud they are and would be more than happy to keep it down if you asked them nicely. If you're rude about it, they may just decide you're an asshole and keep it up just to spite you. Better to have a good relationship with your neighbors.

    I would also recommend asking them to let you know if ever you're being too loud, and maybe exchanging phone numbers so you can communicate about these things without having to get dressed and go to the other person's apartment. I have done this with my current neighbor and it's worked well. She's in college and I'm usually pretty patient about parties & such. But when they were being really loud on the night before my GRE, I sent her a text and asked her to keep it down. Apparently she wasn't even home and her boyfriend (who doesn't even live there) was just less considerate when he was there alone.

    I once tripped over some boxes in the middle of the night when I first moved into an upstairs apartment and the downstairs neighbor banged on the ceiling. I had hurt myself kinda badly and I was fucking pissed that she would assume I was just being inconsiderate and, in turn, be rude to me. Maybe she should have asked if I was okay or something.

    Yeah, so I think I'll take tihs route next time. I'm beginning to think I came off a little assholeish. :?

    Would you like us to write you a note vouching that you're not an asshole? :)
  • Music For RhinosMusic For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    jimed14 wrote:
    If it's really bad, politely go upstairs and knock, and let them know that sound easily travels through their floor. They may not know how loud they are being. They may not be doing anything wrong, and that's just how the aprtment is (I used to live under a HEAVY walker ... and she was all of 95 pounds).

    Don't bang on the ceiling, that's childish.


    A heavy walker? Haha. What does that mean, she walked around constantly and you could hear it??

    Byrnzie wrote:

    Depends what time of day or night it is. My neighbour here started hammering on the floor above at 1am a few months ago so I went up there and started kicking his door in. He came to the door all sheepish and I told him in no uncertain terms to shut the fuck up.

    I had a neighbour back in England who used to deliberately bang on the floor above to wind me up - he was an alcoholic idiot with no life and a big chip on his shoulder. I ended up getting the council involved to try and evict him but they were useless - just sent him letters e.t.c. I even put a brick through his window one night but that still didn't do the trick.


    Gee, you think maybe the reason he didn't stop might have been because....you threw a brick through his window!!! Haha.
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,786
    2 years ago my neighbor left a note on my door....
    Telling me that she cant sleep at night when I come home from work and I am in my computer room.....

    I guess me sitting in my computer chair was making too much noise.......

    The next day I left her a note on her door.....

    I let her know that I hadnt had a good nights sleep in the last 2 years myself.....
    Ever since she set her kitchen on fire, and I had to call the fire department and have the building evacuated....


    She hasnt spoken to me since.....
    And she hasnt left any stupid fucking notes on my door......

    hehehehehehe
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  • Drowned OutDrowned Out Posts: 6,056
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    2 years ago my neighbor left a note on my door....
    Telling me that she cant sleep at night when I come home from work and I am in my computer room.....

    I guess me sitting in my computer chair was making too much noise.......

    The next day I left her a note on her door.....

    I let her know that I hadnt had a good nights sleep in the last 2 years myself.....
    Ever since she set her kitchen on fire, and I had to call the fire department and have the building evacuated....


    She hasnt spoken to me since.....
    And she hasnt left any stupid fucking notes on my door......

    hehehehehehe
    Something doesn't add up. Chair noise? :lol: Did the notes really stop cause the moaning stopped? :P

    man, this all hits too close to home right now....I'm having landlord issues (I'm the lanlord). I made the mistake of renting a suite in a rental house to a family member and a couple of his co-workers. They got a bunch of complaints from the people upstairs the first week and I got caught in the middle. It all could have been avoided if we had all met up and opened up communications, but it got screwed up.....They had no contact info for each other and hadn't met, so they were concerned about confrontations and decided to involve me....now I'm trying to sort between conflicting stories from good tenants upstairs, and extended family downstairs...and the end result is the family member moving out after one month.
    I guess the moral is that we all need to have rational, open communication with our neighbours in order to live in close quarters peacefully.....that said, once it's established, the victim of the noise should not always have to be the one to drop what they're doing, put on a happy face and stroll over to ask them to be quiet.... banging on floors/ceilings/walls is the univerally accepted way of saying, 'remember that chat we had?'.....or 'STFU'...and is perfectly acceptable :)
  • TravelarTravelar Kalamazoo, USA Posts: 3,410
    I live in a condo with a young couple above me. They walk like a herd of buffalo. I doubt that they realize that they are being loud, but it is what it is. I've thought about approaching them on it, but they've recently put their place up for sale, so I'll live with it until new neighbors move in. If the new neighbors are heavy walkers, we'll have a talk.

    As previous posters mentioned, I would just talk them. Wait until you are in a good mood and just mention it to them. Be nice and maybe they will take notice and turn things around for you.
  • pearljgirl2010pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    i had an upstairs neighbor who would vaccuum at 200am...i tried to knock on her door the next morning, but she would never answer, so I (like Speedy's neighbor) wrote her a note asking her to please vaccuum at a reasonable hour. She wrote me a note back saying that she was allergic to dust and her housekeeper had been away, so she needed to get it done!! riiiiiight!!

    my advice....if it's an awkward topic to talk to them about, I would write a note so it's less embarassing (and if that doesn't work, I'd knock on the door)
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    dcfaithful wrote:

    Oh yeah, and no matter how hot you are, no one wants to hear you have sex. 8-)
    just put cameras in her bedroom... 8-)
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    scb wrote:
    Would you like us to write you a note vouching that you're not an asshole? :)

    If you truly believe that, yes :);)
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    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    dcfaithful wrote:
    scb wrote:
    Would you like us to write you a note vouching that you're not an asshole? :)

    If you truly believe that, yes :);)
    tomorrow i ship.. ;)
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    scb wrote:
    Would you like us to write you a note vouching that you're not an asshole? :)

    If you truly believe that, yes :);)
    tomorrow i ship.. ;)

    Nice, thanks dimitris! :mrgreen:
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    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,933
    dcfaithful wrote:
    When living in an apartment, at what point do you call it acceptable to band against your ceiling to tell those noisy neighbors of yours to shut the hell up?!

    It sounds like Wrestlemania is goin' up there, fuck.

    I HATE the apartment I'm at right now. Through the wall is a bunch of black crack heads who yell and carry on at 8 in the morning and outside my apartment is the laundry room, where all the Hispanic kids play while their mom's do laundry. Little hispanic kids sound like barking dogs when they talk to each other.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    When living in an apartment, at what point do you call it acceptable to band against your ceiling to tell those noisy neighbors of yours to shut the hell up?!

    It sounds like Wrestlemania is goin' up there, fuck.

    I HATE the apartment I'm at right now. Through the wall is a bunch of black crack heads who yell and carry on at 8 in the morning and outside my apartment is the laundry room, where all the Hispanic kids play while their mom's do laundry. Little hispanic kids sound like barking dogs when they talk to each other.


    Ah, the joys of apartment living :D. Makes me truly appreciate houses. I've also come to the conclusion that the dishwasher is easily man's best invention. The ONLY downfall's to my apartment is: A) No dishwasher. Laundry hookups, but no dishwasher. B) No storage space. I can deal with no storage space, and I can also deal with no dishwasher, but at times I just get sick of the endless dishes in the sink. One they're done I can only enjoy an empty sink for maybe 2 days before it's time to do a large load again. I've really tried to get in the habit of only using one glass and eating/preparing all my food on one surface.
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    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,933
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    When living in an apartment, at what point do you call it acceptable to band against your ceiling to tell those noisy neighbors of yours to shut the hell up?!

    It sounds like Wrestlemania is goin' up there, fuck.

    I HATE the apartment I'm at right now. Through the wall is a bunch of black crack heads who yell and carry on at 8 in the morning and outside my apartment is the laundry room, where all the Hispanic kids play while their mom's do laundry. Little hispanic kids sound like barking dogs when they talk to each other.


    Ah, the joys of apartment living :D. Makes me truly appreciate houses. I've also come to the conclusion that the dishwasher is easily man's best invention. The ONLY downfall's to my apartment is: A) No dishwasher. Laundry hookups, but no dishwasher. B) No storage space. I can deal with no storage space, and I can also deal with no dishwasher, but at times I just get sick of the endless dishes in the sink. One they're done I can only enjoy an empty sink for maybe 2 days before it's time to do a large load again. I've really tried to get in the habit of only using one glass and eating/preparing all my food on one surface.

    I had to find this apartment on short notice so I just wasn't able to really research the place. I just can't stand the noise at times.

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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    in this one apartment i lived in banging on the floor and ceiling was code for let's get stoned.
    the upstairs neighbor would tap on his floor/my ceiling and i'd zoom up the stairs or he'd come down and we'd get high.
    if i beat on my ceiling/his floor then the same thing... invitation for getting high together.

    to my notion this is friendly and a must when living in a bullshit apartment building.

    how's the song go?
    beat on your ceiling if the answer is no?
    tap 3 times if the answer is yes?

    something like that...

    talk it over a spliff :mrgreen:

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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,301
    Threats go a long way.




    :D
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Last night someone started banging/hammering at 2:15am. I got up and got dressed thinking it was the people upstairs but when I looked through their spyhole I could see that the lights were off so I couldn't be sure it was them. I was ready for some action. :twisted:
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Music For Rhinos wrote:
    Gee, you think maybe the reason he didn't stop might have been because....you threw a brick through his window!!! Haha.

    Nah, it had been going on for years prior to that. I even decked him and locked him in the bin cupboard outside on my way to work one morning after he'd been banging on the floor above all night and shouting stuff out, but even that didn't work.
  • PJPixiePJPixie Posts: 3,026
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    i had an upstairs neighbor who would vaccuum at 200am...i tried to knock on her door the next morning, but she would never answer, so I (like Speedy's neighbor) wrote her a note asking her to please vaccuum at a reasonable hour. She wrote me a note back saying that she was allergic to dust and her housekeeper had been away, so she needed to get it done!! riiiiiight!!

    my advice....if it's an awkward topic to talk to them about, I would write a note so it's less embarassing (and if that doesn't work, I'd knock on the door)



    I lived on the ground floor apartment, under a lady that vacuumed like 3 times a day. It was ridiculous.
    Truly, the lady vacuumed all fucking day long EVERYDAY. Ugh......
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Bottom line: Neighbours suck elephants!
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  • Heatherj43Heatherj43 Posts: 1,254
    Screw that! :o I live in Michigan. Its too cold to go knock on their door! I will bang on the ceiling if they are rudely too loud. They know when they are. They are the ones being rude. So, I can do what I want!
    Hell, I don't even live in an apartment, but where I do live, the homes are way too close. I have no issues with calling them on the phone and telling them I cannot hear my TV and all I can hear is theirs!
    I also have been known to open my window and yell "shut the hell up".
    I play music, quite loud at times, but there is a time and place for everything. At 1 a.m. I don't want to hear the next door neighbor, who's 40, heavy metal music!! I could play the game and drown him out with PJ, but its more polite to tell him to shut the hell up, either by phone or out the window, since he usually can't hear the phone.
    Just like when he kept letting his dog shit in my yard. At first, I asked him to stop it. Then, I would just throw it back in his yard. That didn't work. So, then I smeared it on his car's window. No more shit in my yard!!! LOL! ;)
    Save room for dessert!
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