Apartments and noise.

**shukudai** · 2011-01-15 02:14

Need some tips about noise reduction.

I work from home, and generally my shifts end at midnight or later (and not likely to change in the next couple of years, unless I change my school schedule as well), meaning i'm usually up until 2-4AM. Once my neighbors said I was too loud, since then I walk around like a fucking ninja, TV volume is beyond super low or I use headphones.

Recently I got an elpitical, made sure that shit is quiet, put it on a padded surface, shit is pretty fucking quiet, but sure enough I try to exersize around 1AM, and appearently that shit is too loud.

Are there any tips about reducing noise (for the apartment below you, my noise has never bothered my neighbor to the side), or if not, what kind of apartments/condos etc can I look for where I can actually have a bit of noise at night? My assumption is basement ones only?

**Pirian** · 2011-01-15 02:21

There really isn't much you can do other than put it in another part of the apartment so maybe you're not right above them. Apartments are built with cost in mind first, so all the walls are going to be as thin as possible, and there's nothing you can really do

**Ksandra** · 2011-01-15 02:27

maybe talk to the landlord and see about getting a lower apt instead? sounds is usually better that way. Other than that, what pirian said.

**shukudai** · 2011-01-15 02:32

Yeah there is no lower apartment (I was actually offered one when I moved in, cheaper, but it had no balcony, and was all one room, as opposed to mine being 3 seperate areas and... Fuck -_-).

Also there's at least 3 babies in this place (it's a 3 floor walk up with a basement), so wherever i'd be put, it'd be bad if there was any noise. Not like there is much selection this time of year, but I guess I have to start looking in a few months...

**Maaglin** · 2011-01-15 04:15

Welcome to shitty apartment life. There is no solution for it.

**Dmitry** · 2011-01-15 05:45

Exercise on your balcony.

**Shenrien** · 2011-01-15 05:49

set the building on fire.

**Yuri-G** · 2011-01-15 10:07

Originally Posted by Pirian

Apartments are built with cost in mind first, so all the walls are going to be as thin as possible, and there's nothing you can really do

tell that to my 1950's brick apartment building... so awesome. except when the water heater dies on the coldest day of the year. but otherwise, awesome!

**EvilTheCat** · 2011-01-15 10:58

Buy or steal a house!

**Kobus** · 2011-01-15 11:07

If it's the people below you then it's probably your floor/their ceiling "squeeking" they're hearing. Maybe work with them on this, see if there's a spot in your apartment that doesn't make noise for them below. Noises like working out/walking around are always heard below while music and movies are usually heard next door (unless you have a massive subwoofer, then that's heard below as well).

**Meresgi** · 2011-01-15 11:18

Buy a guitar and jam out at 1am. Then ask them if they prefer the guitar or your exercise equipment. If they keep it up, kill them and bury them in the basement.

**Raz** · 2011-01-15 12:28

Tell them to invest in some earplugs!

**Shenrien** · 2011-01-15 12:41

Originally Posted by Meresgi

Buy a guitar and jam out at 1am. Then ask them if they prefer the guitar or your exercise equipment. If they keep it up, kill them and bury them in the basement.

would be expected to search the basement after they've been missing for a week.

Chop them up, and distribute the body parts in various locations, make sure to pull out the teeth and dispose of each individual tooth in a different location, as for the hands and feet and hair, acid.. lots of acid.. after that you should be in the clear.

**Kiehl** · 2011-01-15 12:44

Originally Posted by Raz

Tell them to invest in some earplugs!

This so much. My computer sits against my neighbor's bedroom wall. Guy was always complaining about gun shots being heard until 4 am. I bought him a big box of ear plugs and he hasn't said a word to me since.

**Meresgi** · 2011-01-15 13:46

Originally Posted by Shenrien

would be expected to search the basement after they've been missing for a week.

Chop them up, and distribute the body parts in various locations, make sure to pull out the teeth and dispose of each individual tooth in a different location, as for the hands and feet and hair, acid.. lots of acid.. after that you should be in the clear.

^ and you can use this on your resume if you ever go work as a professional killer...i'm pretty sure they require resumes for that now right?

**Kildar** · 2011-01-15 14:02

I live on the bottom floor in a two level apartment building and I hear everything that my neighbor above me does. There's really nothing I can do because my side neighbor says the same about her apartment. It's just really thin ceilings I guess. It sounds like he's stomping around all the time, but he's just walking. I've just learned to deal with the noise, that's about all your neighbors can do.

**Senji** · 2011-01-15 14:27

Tell them to buy a water fountain that makes cricket noises and gtfo

**tonyg** · 2011-01-15 14:36

Well since this is the thread for it, I also have an apartment question of my own.

I've started practicing my juggling again in my apartment and bought 200$ worth of floormats to dampen the sound, yet the fuckers under me (who casually play bass and drums like motherfuckers at 1AM) still go whine to my landlord when I practice in the afternoon. Can they actually do that, when I buy stuff that isn't necessary to my practice, that I simply bought out of respect for them and the noise I make and when I practice in non-crazy hours? Shit is starting to piss me off when they hit on their ceiling with a (broom/baseball bat/anything blunt) for 20 minutes just to get back at me.

**rog** · 2011-01-15 14:39

Originally Posted by tonyg

Well since this is the thread for it, I also have an apartment question of my own.

I've started practicing my juggling again in my apartment and bought 200$ worth of floormats to dampen the sound, yet the fuckers under me (who casually play bass and drums like motherfuckers at 1AM) still go whine to my landlord when I practice in the afternoon. Can they actually do that, when I buy stuff that isn't necessary to my practice, that I simply bought out of respect for them and the noise I make and when I practice in non-crazy hours? Shit is starting to piss me off when they hit on their ceiling with a (broom/baseball bat/anything blunt) for 20 minutes just to get back at me.

Pretty sure they're allowed to bitch, and be hypocritical all they want.

**Indalecia** · 2011-01-15 15:13

I've been lucky to have all neighbors that put up with my antics at all hours. Its gotten even better with the guy above me who plays his drums at 2am. We all think its hilarious