7.00AM start is too early according to neighbours

My downstairs neighbours have told my landlady (not us directly) that our ‘habit’ of getting up at 7.00am is making too much noise for them.

By the way: we get up to get ready for work, and school that starts at 7.50am. I’d love a sleep-in myself.

To add to the issue we have (in our building) jack hammer renovations every day from 8.00am to 6.30pm, roosters across the road who crow every morning from 4.00am and basketball courts across the road that are played on 24 hours a day no joke. Sorry, forgot the mad pack of barking dogs next door too!

Why are we getting told we are noisy?

Do you ever move tables or chairs across the floor? That can produce an annoying sound to residents below. A friend had that problem, but then he left some “furniture booties” on the doorstep of the offending upstairs neighbor. I guess the neighbor used them, because he said the problem went away…

No, We have two kids and they make a bit of noise now and then but they are not the screaming/yelling types. We take them everyday to the park for running/screaming/roller blading/meet the old guy with birds/dance with the ballroom practise ladies/chase the roosters/muck around/watch the bats at dusk so the DON’T do the crazy stuff indoors. Between 7.30am and 4.30pm there is no one home. 6 to 8.30 homework, food, bath and bed - I can’t see where we are being abnormal!

I want to lower my stereo speakers over the balcony and put the amp on “11” and play the Welcome supermarket theme on a loop for a day or two.

Sounds to me that you need to ask your landlady to ask your neighbour exactly what kind of noise you are making that’s annoying them.

I think they just don’t like you and want a reason to annoy you, not that the reason has to be true or not. I’d expect a new problem in a week or 2. You might want to just confront the neighbor and ask tthem what their problem is if your neighborhood is as noisy as you say.

CYA
Okami

I usually find my downstairs neighbors complaining about the running and jumping footsteps the kids.

I try to keep the kids activity outside the bedroom in the morning so not to disturb the neighbors downstairs sleeping or get thick area rugs and padding underneath for the bedrooms.

According to oour landlady it’s the noise we make in the morning, i.e
-shower (gurgle gurgle)
-walking (we don’t wear shoes inside)
-talking (whispered in tones to chill: “Get your bag packed now or I’ll kill you - again”)
This is competing with
-Park noise (basketball, dancing music, rooster squad, martial arts practice)
-Road (scooters, ambulance, trucks, ambulance, buses, ambulance again)
-School nearby (bells, music and lousdpeaker announcements)
-Neighbours (yelling and barking pack of dogs)
-Our building (cement saws, jack hammers etc etc.)

I think our neighbours are mad or maybe they have it in for the foreigners who are ‘soiling’ their building.

Move to Lotus Hill.

The sound of Frogs and crickets overnight. No traffic noise. Very civilised neighbours.

[quote=“stragbasher”]Move to Lotus Hill.

The sound of Frogs and crickets overnight. No traffic noise. Very civilised neighbours.[/quote]

Sounds good but my wife’s company pays the rent so we are stuck.
I use earplugs at night with a couple of bottles of wine beforehand to ensure peaceful slumbers…hic

I have an even better suggestion:

Ignore them.

[quote=“Mr He”]I have an even better suggestion:

Ignore them.[/quote]

Definitely! It seems so unreasonable it has to be some warped anti-foreigner thing - they don’t like you SHOWERING in your own home? :noway:

Perhaps you could set off strings of firecrackers to cover the noise of your daily ablutions?

How about learning to sing karaoke? Starting the day with a song or 2.

Maybe you need to stop yelling during morning sex> :laughing: :wink:

we have two children…can we do it agian??

Another alternative is to knock the neighbors door and introduce yourself while tell them that you are aware of their concerns however its not any of your faults and you are not noisy at all. Keep smiling during the conversation (even though you like to burn down their house), it might helps. What we did was sending cookies to neighbors when we had the renovation for a month, it did help a lot.

Our youngest is 30, and we still do it. Course I aint worth a sht the rest of the day! :laughing:

That sounds good… But you are likely to live in a US suburb, where you can yell as much as you want without distrbing the neighbors.

I felt better doing it with the windows closed, as many Taiwanese females are somewhat loud in bed.

The neighbors where I live don’t complain, even when I forget to close the windows.

I had a problem like that with some buddhists complaining about me and the ex yelling at each other (we argued a lot). However, I told them in return that we would stop that, once they stopped beating their f*cking prayer bell at 3AM.

I don’t see why it should have anything to do with you being a foreigner - maybe they do hear the noises from your apartment (which isn’t unusual if it’s directly above theirs) or maybe they are just too sensitive. From your description I don’t see any wrong-doing by yourself however.
You can choose to talk to them and see if the problem can somehow be solved - or you just ignore them. But don’t make it at Taiwanese vs. foreigner thing before you know if that is true or not, else things might quickly escalate and make things worst for both parties.

When we were living in Singapore, we use to get some really odd marble bouncing noise coming from above.
When we mentioned it to some friends we found that most of them heard similar noises (different complexes).
The people living upstairs claimed they had no idea what would cause such a noise, but knew what we were talking about
Then one night on TV there was a ‘Singapore Unexplained’ program that mentioned a problem there of ‘haunted buildings’ which are characterized by “dropping marble sounds”.

…things that make you go mmmm. :loco:

funny we used to get the same thing… until the people there and their kids moved :slight_smile: I guess they were dropping marbles