Noisy neighbours

angel01 · 23-01-2010 9:18pm #1

Every Saturday, we have a problem with the apartment below us, they play music mostly till after 12.30am.. I have tried to involve the management company, they were supposed to have had a word with them but yet it is Saturday...:rolleyes: and the music is still on..

What can I do to stop this (bar moving out..)

Limerickgal82 · 23-01-2010 9:29pm

This used to happen me every Saturday Night so i used to get up early on sunday morning and play my music even louder (and as it was during the day they couldnt do anything!!!) Management companies do not resolve anything!!

angel01 · 23-01-2010 9:33pm

Its dreadful isn't it, I am living on the edge of my bloody nerves due to it all. The police won't do anything. It is driving me insane. :mad::(

Limerickgal82 · 23-01-2010 9:56pm

It is the worst thing because u cant blank it out ! My new apartment block is fairly ok except for the child upstairs running across the floor in what sounds like Hammers on his feet and screaming at 7am outside my window cause he doesnt like the childminder

Victor · 23-01-2010 10:53pm

Ear plugs for €1 from local pharmacy?

Oliver1985 · 23-01-2010 11:07pm

Victor wrote: »

Ear plugs for €1 from local pharmacy?

Only danger there is would you still hear the fire alarm if it went off?

Limerickgal82 · 23-01-2010 11:09pm

LOL they dont work ( Good idea though

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Mr. Presentable · 23-01-2010 11:12pm

I'm gonna suggest speakers to the floor and loud music early Sunday morning, say 5-ish, from you to them. Should open a dialogue.

Coriolanus · 23-01-2010 11:46pm

nipplenuts wrote: »

I'm gonna suggest speakers to the floor and loud music early Sunday morning, say 5-ish, from you to them. Should open a dialogue.

Something with a nice beefy base line. :pac:

Limerickgal82 · 23-01-2010 11:47pm

It used to make me feel SO much better!!

dublinbynight · 23-01-2010 11:49pm

angel01 wrote: »

Every Saturday, we have a problem with the apartment below us, they play music mostly till after 12.30am.. I have tried to involve the management company, they were supposed to have had a word with them but yet it is Saturday...:rolleyes: and the music is still on..

What can I do to stop this (bar moving out..)

Your only option is a formal complaint under the Environmental Protection Act - should be available on you Council website. If it happens all the time you might actually stand a chance. If the management company doesn't do anything then you have the perfect pretext to involve of the local rags, Gazette for example - they love that kinda news, just embellish where necessary. Good luck - we moved out because of a similar issue

Victor · 24-01-2010 12:10am

Oliver1985 wrote: »

Only danger there is would you still hear the fire alarm if it went off?

Yes you would. Ear plugs tend to drown out background noise, not sudden noise.

angel01 · 24-01-2010 8:03am

This time it went on till 5am :rolleyes: looks like I will be calling the county council and lodging a complaint on Monday.

red dave · 24-01-2010 12:18pm

angel01 wrote: »

This time it went on till 5am :rolleyes: looks like I will be calling the county council and lodging a complaint on Monday.

Best thing to keep an actual diary or written record of times and dates. Should be pretty easy to write the dates as it's every Saturday but have times of it finishing...if you are still awake when it does. If you could get a sound recording from your apartment also as evidence of the noise you have to endure etc.

convert · 24-01-2010 6:47pm

red dave wrote: »

Best thing to keep an actual diary or written record of times and dates. Should be pretty easy to write the dates as it's every Saturday but have times of it finishing...if you are still awake when it does. If you could get a sound recording from your apartment also as evidence of the noise you have to endure etc.

I'd agree with red dave on this one. Keeping records of all incidents is vital and can prove very useful if you are asked for evidence. Same goes for sound recordings.

angel01 · 25-01-2010 11:43am

I have contacted the PRTB, the property is registered on there but I have to write a letter to them before they will release the landlords information, sent the letter just now and it is gone in the post.

Waiting for the county council to get back to me. Not sure what else I can do for now.

angel01 · 11-02-2010 11:01am

Just an update, they are being evicted

Cathmandooo · 11-02-2010 11:08am

angel01 wrote: »

Just an update, they are being evicted

Wow! That's a great result. Is it their landlord that's evicting them or did the PRTB request them to be evicted?

How long did the whole process take? If you don't mind me asking.

angel01 · 11-02-2010 1:31pm

Cathooo wrote: »

Wow! That's a great result. Is it their landlord that's evicting them or did the PRTB request them to be evicted?

How long did the whole process take? If you don't mind me asking.

Their landlord is evicting them. The process took a bit longer than I wanted because their landlord was away a lot but I suppose around 3 weeks, I got my landlord involved which really helped a lot.

I had been having problems for about 3/4 months before that, I am so happy.

madrabui · 11-02-2010 2:24pm

angel01, just to clarify, did you send the letter through the PRTB or did you get the owners address off the PRTB?

btw...congrats!

angel01 · 11-02-2010 3:55pm

madrabui wrote: »

angel01, just to clarify, did you send the letter through the PRTB or did you get the owners address off the PRTB?

btw...congrats!

I sent a letter to the PRTB, they gave me the landlords details by post.

Freddie59 · 11-02-2010 5:53pm

angel01 wrote: »

I sent a letter to the PRTB, they gave me the landlords details by post.

Well done. Delighted for you. Common sense prevails.:D

Kintarō Hattori · 12-02-2010 3:21am

Congrats OP, noisey neighbours are a terrible thing. My other half and I eventually moved from an apartment complext after 18 months as the neighbours upstraits just got more and more unreasonable at the weekends with parties and music reguarly going on 'til 5am.

At the moment we're gonna move from our current place as our next door neighbours reguarly do their washing in the middle of the night. So at 2-3am in the morning you can be lying in bed and all you can hear is the pounding of their washing machine in the next apartment. It sounds like a trivial thing but the walls are paper thin.

I had mentioned to them that it's keeping us awake at night but they denied they were doing it...... feckers! :mad:

angel01 · 12-02-2010 9:30am

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Congrats OP, noisey neighbours are a terrible thing. My other half and I eventually moved from an apartment complext after 18 months as the neighbours upstraits just got more and more unreasonable at the weekends with parties and music reguarly going on 'til 5am.

At the moment we're gonna move from our current place as our next door neighbours reguarly do their washing in the middle of the night. So at 2-3am in the morning you can be lying in bed and all you can hear is the pounding of their washing machine in the next apartment. It sounds like a trivial thing but the walls are paper thin.

I had mentioned to them that it's keeping us awake at night but they denied they were doing it...... feckers! :mad:

I can sympathise

Unfortunately it will take a few weeks for them to go but they have been served notice so at least that is something.

Sam Kade · 12-02-2010 9:40am

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

At the moment we're gonna move from our current place as our next door neighbours reguarly do their washing in the middle of the night. So at 2-3am in the morning you can be lying in bed and all you can hear is the pounding of their washing machine in the next apartment. It sounds like a trivial thing but the walls are paper thin.

I had mentioned to them that it's keeping us awake at night but they denied they were doing it...... feckers! :mad:

They must be using night saver electricity.

angel01 · 12-02-2010 12:35pm

Sam Kade wrote: »

They must be using night saver electricity.

Though saying that, we tend to use our washing machine at night too (purely only because we are out during the day and I am not comfortable leaving the washing machine on when I am out at work and noone to keep an eye on it)

angel01 · 10-03-2010 1:17pm

and they have finally left

SlimJ · 12-03-2010 7:08pm

Thanks for sharing your experience, Angel, and congratulations.

I'm in a similar situation; I've written to the PRTB looking for their landlord's information.

My management company advised me to "take an action against these residents under Section 108 (3) of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992, to appear in the District Court."

I don't really know how do to this... I'm guessing I print out this form and deliver it to these guys? How do I do this if I don't know the names of the people in the apartment?

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