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Angry neighbour

  • 24-02-2018 5:50pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3


    Hi. I'm looking for some advice.
    New neighbors recently moved in below me. It was Sunday , 12 in the afternoon when the neighbour nocked on my door and asked me if my child can stop running( he ran from sitting room to his bedroom to get something and back) and she said they can constantly hear him run and jump and that it needs to stop. I was shocked as the noise we make is nothing out of the ordinary, we are not making any unusual , excessive noise and the fact that she can hear us is not my fault, the building is made from very poor materials and the way she said it sounded as if my son just ran and jumped around all day! I have students living above me, who can get pretty loud and have parties, I too hear them walk and run around their apartment however I never had the need to go up and complain as I understand that that's the way it is when you live in a building like this, I would not go up and ask them to walk on their tip toes, whisper and not to have friends over. And I'm sure footsteps of an adult man sound much louder than a toddlers. I felt like my neighbour was completely in the wrong , especially considering that the noise she complains about happens during the day and not often. I politely said to her that this is a small boy and I can not stop him from running and that she has to be understanding about how this building is made. I was very annoyed. A few days after he was playing and dropped a heavy toy on the floor, the neighbour immediately started banging on her ceiling and today again he was watching TV and repeating some dance steps and jumped up and down about 3 times and they started banging very angrily on the ceiling. I feel like I can't leave in my own home, I cought myself giving out to my son over silly things out of fear the neighbour might hear, and will get annoyed. I feel harassed by her and like I can't enjoy being in my own home. So I'm looking for an outside opinion.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,394 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    I think you neighbour should move, the building obviously isn't well insulated for noise levels and its not going to get any better, you cant keep a child on a seat all day and expect them not to move, any problems before this neighbour?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 Edith123


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    I think you neighbour should move, the building obviously isn't well insulated for noise levels and its not going to get any better, you cant keep a child on a seat all day and expect them not to move, any problems before this neighbour?
    no never had any problems before, in fact the lady that lived there before them was very fond of us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,394 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    Just carry on as you are, if she still persist then contact the landllord.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Next time she bangs on the ceiling play the jumpy-up-and-down game with your wee one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 Edith123


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    Just carry on as you are, if she still persist then contact the landllord.
    They bought that apartment, or did you mean I should contact my landlord?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Edith123 wrote: »
    They bought that apartment, or did you mean I should contact my landlord?

    I'd make them aware in case downstairs make a 3rd party complaint to the RTB.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    I would also make a note of when she is banging on her ceiling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,982 ✭✭✭kravmaga


    Edith123 wrote: »
    Hi. I'm looking for some advice.
    New neighbors recently moved in below me. It was Sunday , 12 in the afternoon when the neighbour nocked on my door and asked me if my child can stop running( he ran from sitting room to his bedroom to get something and back) and she said they can constantly hear him run and jump and that it needs to stop. I was shocked as the noise we make is nothing out of the ordinary, we are not making any unusual , excessive noise and the fact that she can hear us is not my fault, the building is made from very poor materials and the way she said it sounded as if my son just ran and jumped around all day! I have students living above me, who can get pretty loud and have parties, I too hear them walk and run around their apartment however I never had the need to go up and complain as I understand that that's the way it is when you live in a building like this, I would not go up and ask them to walk on their tip toes, whisper and not to have friends over. And I'm sure footsteps of an adult man sound much louder than a toddlers. I felt like my neighbour was completely in the wrong , especially considering that the noise she complains about happens during the day and not often. I politely said to her that this is a small boy and I can not stop him from running and that she has to be understanding about how this building is made. I was very annoyed. A few days after he was playing and dropped a heavy toy on the floor, the neighbour immediately started banging on her ceiling and today again he was watching TV and repeating some dance steps and jumped up and down about 3 times and they started banging very angrily on the ceiling. I feel like I can't leave in my own home, I cought myself giving out to my son over silly things out of fear the neighbour might hear, and will get annoyed. I feel harassed by her and like I can't enjoy being in my own home. So I'm looking for an outside opinion.

    If its an apartment I would contact the Management Company and make a complaint that your being harassed by your neighbour. It could come under anti social behaviour and also inform local Garda Station community Policing rep, sounds like your neighbour has anger management issues


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭little bess


    That’s so annoying! If she bangs on the ceiling again I would bang back with a broom or the likes, exact amount of times as she has 😡😡. Also, make a complaint with your landlord!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭Thestones


    I think this is a pretty common problem with apartments, I presume you have wooden floors?. It's probably making the normal walking around, kid playing echoing down on her(and she sounds extra sensitive!) I think there is some sort of soundproofing that can be done to floors in apartments, new floors with really thick underlay or carpet in some of the living areas. It would obviously be a cost she and landlord would have to discuss and agree to if it really is a problem for her. This isn't your fault at all.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    She sounds completely mad, ignore her. This is part and parcel of apartment living. Banging on the ceiling is harassment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,375 ✭✭✭893bet


    Dont bang back. Nothing to be gained.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,016 ✭✭✭mad m


    893bet wrote: »
    Dont bang back. Nothing to be gained.

    This, Good advice, no point poking the fire.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    This happened to me once. I was living in the house for 2 years without any issues when the neighbour moved out and in moved a young family with 2 or 3 kids. The kids seemed to do nothing but run up and down the stairs for hours at a time it drove me insane. Up down up down constantly. Playing I suppose. The insulation was so bad that the noise was almost as bad as if they were in my own house. I really wouldn't be the type of person to get annoyed by loud noise lasting for short periods or even have the nerve to go and knock on a door to complain about it but in this rare situation I had too or I would have had to move out. Anyway I had a feeling the family had moved down from Dublin, were on social welfare and were enjoying their new accommodation which might explain why they were going wild on the stairs. They did take my complaint seriously thankfully and cut down on the noise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,412 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    The next time she knocks on your door. I'd just start with politely stating that there is no point knocking on your door because there is no issue to be addressed as far as you're concerned.

    I'd follow this with a friendly smile and a closed door. Don't bang back on the floor. That's just joining in with the foolishness and acknowledging the conversation. And let your landlord know you've a madser living downstairs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,177 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Thestones wrote: »
    I think this is a pretty common problem with apartments, I presume you have wooden floors?. It's probably making the normal walking around, kid playing echoing down on her(and she sounds extra sensitive!) I think there is some sort of soundproofing that can be done to floors in apartments, new floors with really thick underlay or carpet in some of the living areas. It would obviously be a cost she and landlord would have to discuss and agree to if it really is a problem for her. This isn't your fault at all.

    Op do you have wooden floors?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭amtc


    Please don't bang back. I'm a director of our management company and two residents who happen to be my next door neighbour's and the next one up have got into a tit for tat thing. It's not going well!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,101 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    Get into the habit of taking off your shoes and your son's shoes, get him slippers. That way if she complains to the management company you can show you are trying to address it and that she is being unreasonable. Don't stoop to her level, right not you are doing nothing wrong she's to the one knocking on the ceiling. Take note of the times she does it, that way you can also show that it's not happening late at night it's only while your son is up playing, she can't blow it up to be more than it is if you have notes to back it up.

    Boots and high heals make a lot of noise on the floor and it travels. We had the same problems (before we had kids) our down stairs neighbour knocked on our door. Poor chap was at his whits end, the noise was driving him mad. I gave him my number and told him to call me when it was getting to him. A week later I got a call. I was way surfing and my misses was in the apartment pottering around but not wearing boots. The lady in the apartment next door was the cause she used to stomp around in boot having screaming matches with her daughter whilst running the washing machine at midnight.

    Think he moved in the end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    as Spacehopper has said you and your kids should not be wearing shoes in the apartment (if you currently do). This may be unusual to you ( there isnt really a tradition of doing it in Irish households) but its absolutly the norm anywhere where apartment living is commonplace.

    My sister is driven crazy by her dopwnstairs neighbour. Its just herself and her daughter and they make a mimimum of noise but the downstairs neighbour goes crazy at any and all movement.

    Shes put in carpets etc and does try to keep the noise down but these buildings just arent built properly with pretty much normal household ceilings between dwellings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    While I think "running noise" can be annoying at the end of the day it's a kid being a kid. I think I only complained a few times when the kid upstairs was running, once was at 11pm and the second was when an adult ran after him and the light fixtures were shaking.
    Both taken on board each time. But you can hardly be expected to stop a kid from being a kid!

    Definitely don't knock back!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Not helpful to your particular situation, but does highlight the point that this is a very common issue. :)
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=106027094&postcount=7606



    My old apartment was below a very loud group of people, but at night it was crazy (not partying, two were deliery drivers so arrived home at 3am every night). The noise was every single night, after a while we got used to it. Eventually moved out and the new people couldn't stand it, complained until upstairs eventually moved out and then 4 students moved in. Party every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They complained about them too, but the Landlord refused to listen that time as she had said she was reluctant to evict the first group, as it seemed the first weren't that bad after all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭JackHeuston


    Harassed is a big word. Have you given any thought in bringing your kid to a green area or something? Are you sure you're not harassing your neighbours downstairs? Their reactions are silly but letting your kid act like an animal in the house is not the greatest behaviour either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭Paullimerick


    Jack. I just wonder here if she owns her own apartment. If so has she not got the right to leave her kids run around and enjoy themselves. If this neighbour in my eyes was so worried about noise she would not have bought an apartment with one over head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭10pennymixup


    Harassed is a big word. Have you given any thought in bringing your kid to a green area or something? Are you sure you're not harassing your neighbours downstairs? Their reactions are silly but letting your kid act like an animal in the house is not the greatest behaviour either.

    Act like an animal? Where does the OP say anything other than it's a kid that ran to their room and back or dropped a toy or two?

    And yes banging on a ceiling in a poorly sound proofed building, because of normal apartment living behaviour would be harassment. Neighbours either need to get real, take a valium or move to a detached house in the country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,058 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Put on a bit of music when she bangs. It drowns out the noise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,532 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Their reactions are silly but letting your kid act like an animal in the house is not the greatest behaviour either.

    Wait, what?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,059 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I think it is a two way street myself. One resident thinks there is no problem, another thinks it is Armageddon noise wise.

    If it were me, I would ask neighbours if you could sit in their apartment for a while to hear the level of noise they are experiencing. Get someone to mind your child at the time and get him to run around.

    If you do not hear anything they are bonkers and may be used to living in a detached house and have downsized, or you may hear it (but minimise it). Just see it from someone else's perspective maybe if you can?

    I am not sure if you have them, but wooden floors should be banned in apartments above ground floor level. And of course there is the scandal of some apartment blocks not reaching correct standards either.

    See both sides and compromise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 846 ✭✭✭April 73


    I think it is a two way street myself. One resident thinks there is no problem, another thinks it is Armageddon noise wise.

    If it were me, I would ask neighbours if you could sit in their apartment for a while to hear the level of noise they are experiencing. Get someone to mind your child at the time and get him to run around.

    If you do not hear anything they are bonkers and may be used to living in a detached house and have downsized, or you may hear it (but minimise it). Just see it from someone else's perspective maybe if you can?

    I am not sure if you have them, but wooden floors should be banned in apartments above ground floor level. And of course there is the scandal of some apartment blocks not reaching correct standards either.

    See both sides and compromise.

    This is a very reasonable approach. At the moment the OP thinks the neighbour is crazy (and maybe they are) - but they have never heard the noise impact in the apartment below. There have been posts on here before where reasonable living noise in one apartment becomes unbearable in the one below because it gets magnified due to poor sound proofing.

    If you have wooden floors it isn’t unreasonable to take shoes off when you come home to reduce noise. I leave early in the morning for work & my daughter told me the noise from my shoes on the wooden floor in the Hall was waking her. So I only put my shoes on at the front door as I’m leaving. Wooden floors & poor soundproofing in apartments can cause a lot of problems.

    No-one wants to fall out with neighbours or have people banging their ceiling. It’s worth finding out exactly what the neighbour can hear before assuming they’re mad. If it turns out the noise is actually acceptable then the OP has at least tried everything & can put it down to mad over-sensitive neighbours.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    People should never wear shoes in apartments, especially with wooden floors. In other countries with a history of apartnent living, this is the norm.

    True, apartments in Ireland are poorly sound/vibration insulated but there is nothing worse than kids playing on wood floors above, especially bouncing balls or running around. The sounds seem to get magnified and can be really irritating for people who want peaceful living at home.

    Its a good suggestion to go downstairs and experience your kid at full tilt upstairs so you have an idea what its like.

    Socks/slippers and rugs help a lot.. and keep ball games for the park.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,177 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Any modern apartment development I know strictly prohibits wooden floors in apartments. The op has been asked twice in this thread if they have wooden floors but they have not answered the question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 915 ✭✭✭geecee


    True, apartments in Ireland are poorly sound/vibration insulated but there is nothing worse than kids playing on wood floors above, especially bouncing balls or running around. The sounds seem to get magnified and can be really irritating for people who want peaceful living at home.

    The management company in my apartment once rang and said that there had been a complaint about me playing "mini golf" in my apartment and I was to cease and desist immediately or face the consequences

    Of course I had no idea what they were talking about and told them so. That weekend I was having a lie in and could hear the sound of a rolling ball on the wooden floors of the apartment next door. It was caused by a child playing with a ball.

    I called back the management company to say I had located the source of the complaint. Their response was "ah well, sure what can you do about a child playing and making noise"

    Naturally I was very annoyed at this comment, seems its ok for a chid to play ball games, but not me!

    The neighbours were eventually asked to put in mats or carpets to deaden the sounds


  • Administrators Posts: 54,424 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Caranica wrote: »
    Any modern apartment development I know strictly prohibits wooden floors in apartments. The op has been asked twice in this thread if they have wooden floors but they have not answered the question.
    First I've ever heard of this. Don't think I've ever seen an apartment in Ireland without wooden floors.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    Okay, I'll help clear this up for the OP, I've had this issue and sorted it.
    Neighbours could her my daughter running around like a lunatic during the day and kept quiet for months but eventually came up and said it to me, nicely.

    The easy way I solved it was to buy a pair of soft slippers with rubber grips on them for the child AND I bought those big blue sponge tiles in smyths toystore and covered the kitchen come living area with them.

    Problem solved.

    Folks it's not unreasonable for people to get fed up of listening to a child run around constantly above them. Especially if it's a new thing that they didn't have to deal with all along. I'm a respectful person and no only too well what a bit of peace and quiet can mean, I had 6 months of Brazilians living above me so I know very well about being driven mad.

    We don't wear shoes in the apartment, and since I got my baba wearing those soft slippers and put down those soft tiles down the problem is solved.

    Worth a try.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭student7890


    I have heard my neighbours parties often but can block the noise out, they have no idea the impact their parties have and seem confused why everyone doesn't do the same amount of drinking at home every weekend with their loud friends.

    I think any dialogue you have with a neighbour is helpful long term, even just hello makes it easier if there are any issues down the line.

    These days people don't have the option to move at will and often do have to put up with excessive noise.

    I keep a diary of any really excessive noise.

    Beam me up Scotty.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Caranica wrote: »
    Any modern apartment development I know strictly prohibits wooden floors in apartments. The op has been asked twice in this thread if they have wooden floors but they have not answered the question.

    The last two places I lived had wooden floors above us.
    italodisco wrote: »
    Okay, I'll help clear this up for the OP, I've had this issue and sorted it.
    The easy way I solved it was to buy a pair of soft slippers with rubber grips on them for the child AND I bought those big blue sponge tiles in smyths toystore and covered the kitchen come living area with them.

    The OP neighbour just moved in and was immediately angry. That is a bit unreasonable.
    The foam playmats i am thinking of, wouldn't cover much area without having to fork out a bit. Would want to be sure it worked first. But i agree, it should definitely help. https://www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/toys/pre-school-and-electronic-learning/foam-playmats/c/SM06010312

    Could make slippers out of them or these .. :)
    https://makeanddocrew.com/crochet-slippers-flip-flops-free-pattern/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    Suckit wrote: »
    The last two places I lived had wooden floors above us.



    The OP neighbour just moved in and was immediately angry. That is a bit unreasonable.
    The foam playmats i am thinking of, wouldn't cover much area without having to fork out a bit. Would want to be sure it worked first. But i agree, it should definitely help. https://www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/toys/pre-school-and-electronic-learning/foam-playmats/c/SM06010312

    Could make slippers out of them or these .. :)
    https://makeanddocrew.com/crochet-slippers-flip-flops-free-pattern/

    You can buy them from alibaba.com too for very little.

    The ones I got are the large blue ones, the regular ones are only A4 size, way too small


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    Just have a few down this eve but these are the ones I use


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Bob_Marley


    italodisco wrote: »
    Okay, I'll help clear this up for the OP, I've had this issue and sorted it.
    Neighbours could her my daughter running around like a lunatic during the day and kept quiet for months but eventually came up and said it to me, nicely.

    The easy way I solved it was to buy a pair of soft slippers with rubber grips on them for the child AND I bought those big blue sponge tiles in smyths toystore and covered the kitchen come living area with them.

    Problem solved.

    Folks it's not unreasonable for people to get fed up of listening to a child run around constantly above them. Especially if it's a new thing that they didn't have to deal with all along. I'm a respectful person and no only too well what a bit of peace and quiet can mean, I had 6 months of Brazilians living above me so I know very well about being driven mad.

    We don't wear shoes in the apartment, and since I got my baba wearing those soft slippers and put down those soft tiles down the problem is solved.

    Worth a try.

    you've restored some of my faith in humanity. if only people would just speak nicely to eachother and help eachother, even if one party doesn't know how to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭Lead




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Seems fair by the judge. The defendants did nothing to try compromise or rectify the situation and so were found to be at fault.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    People should never wear shoes in apartments, especially with wooden floors. In other countries with a history of apartnent living, this is the norm.

    True, apartments in Ireland are poorly sound/vibration insulated but there is nothing worse than kids playing on wood floors above, especially bouncing balls or running around. The sounds seem to get magnified and can be really irritating for people who want peaceful living at home.

    Its a good suggestion to go downstairs and experience your kid at full tilt upstairs so you have an idea what its like.

    Socks/slippers and rugs help a lot.. and keep ball games for the park.

    i would agree with this poster. people are different, some folk don't mind noise at all, some find it strangely comforting. some detest it. i assume your new neighbour falls into the latter category. nothing to be gained from a tit for tat battle except some short-term satisfaction.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭Sinister Kid


    OP, Is this your neighbor?

    Heckle.png

    On a serious note, log everything & let your landlord know how unreasonable she is being. The landlord is better off hearing from you that there is an issue before the neighbor complains & makes out you are running kids tap dancing classes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭polydactyl


    We had this issues. Little ball of energy lived upstairs and seemed to run all the time.

    How I dealt with was....Acceptance, it’s life, I live in an apt. Ppl are so precious. If he was doing it in metal clogs at 3am that’s different


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭Will I Am Not


    polydactyl wrote: »
    We had this issues. Little ball of energy lived upstairs and seemed to run all the time.

    How I dealt with was....Acceptance, it’s life, I live in an apt. Ppl are so precious. If he was doing it in metal clogs at 3am that’s different

    This is boards. Where an inordinate number of people think kids are worse than Hitler and they tell you that they don’t plan on having kids at every opportunity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,177 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    awec wrote: »
    First I've ever heard of this. Don't think I've ever seen an apartment in Ireland without wooden floors.

    Very common and there was an epic thread here a few years ago with someone who ended up suing their management company who failed to enforce the lease clause about wooden floors, they were being tormented by noise from above. Iirc they won in court too.

    Edit :this article from the UK in today's papers. £100k in damages awarded to man living below wooden floors.

    Noisy neighbours must pay banker €112k in compensation because their floors had no carpet, judge rules

    https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/noisy-neighbours-must-pay-banker-112k-in-compensation-because-their-floors-had-no-carpet-judge-rules-36672512.html


  • Administrators Posts: 54,424 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Caranica wrote: »
    Very common and there was an epic thread here a few years ago with someone who ended up suing their management company who failed to enforce the lease clause about wooden floors, they were being tormented by noise from above. Iirc they won in court too.

    Edit :this article from the UK in today's papers. £100k in damages awarded to man living below wooden floors.

    Noisy neighbours must pay banker €112k in compensation because their floors had no carpet, judge rules

    https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/noisy-neighbours-must-pay-banker-112k-in-compensation-because-their-floors-had-no-carpet-judge-rules-36672512.html
    Not in my experience. The link is the UK too, not Ireland?

    My last apartment had no rules at all about floors, my current one just says no high heels on wooden floors. I think of all my friends apartments, every single one has wooden flooring in at least one room.

    Genuinely not trying to be smart, but I don't think I've ever been in an apartment in Ireland that was carpeted throughout.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭syndrome777


    awec wrote: »
    Not in my experience. The link is the UK too, not Ireland?

    My last apartment had no rules at all about floors, my current one just says no high heels on wooden floors. I think of all my friends apartments, every single one has wooden flooring in at least one room.

    Genuinely not trying to be smart, but I don't think I've ever been in an apartment in Ireland that was carpeted throughout.
    min is, the whole building of 20 apt is, Dub 8

    Also a few building I've been in Dub7 are also all carpeted, including stairs :S

    I would prefer wooden floors though, and normal neighbors, with quite kids :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    I've only ever owned in one block of apartments.

    Our 'ground' floor kitchen / living / entrance (we were on top, duplex with attic) was concrete, as was the apartment below (ground floor so obviously concrete).

    I know little about apartment construction in Ireland, but timber floors between apartments? So in the event of a fire, the fire just roars upstairs to the next apartment?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭seablue


    awec wrote: »
    First I've ever heard of this. Don't think I've ever seen an apartment in Ireland without wooden floors.

    I live in a apartment. Only ground floor apts are allowed have wooden floors here.


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