Flat above shop - noise problems
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I've been living above a cake shop for the last 4 months and the noise proofing between the flat and shop is so poor you can hold a conversation between both without raising your voice. This has led to a long running dispute and the shop owner and her relatives tring to drive me out by keeping me awake at night by hiding in the back room in the shop with door locked and light off and making noises at intervals through the night to mess up my sleep.
The letting agent refuses to believe me and the shop owner denies it. Even my relatives have pretty much said I'm imagining it.
Do any of you lovely DS'ers have any ideas how to deal with it?
The letting agent refuses to believe me and the shop owner denies it. Even my relatives have pretty much said I'm imagining it.
Do any of you lovely DS'ers have any ideas how to deal with it?
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unfortunately there probably isn't a lot you can do about it, the shop below is entitled to go about their business.
easiest advice... move.
I've also noticed once or twice when I've taken an electric meter reading for the shop late at night around 10pm and then another one in the morning about 8am before anyone has been in the shop often several KW hours have been used as if there's been a heater on in there.
sorry to say, but you sound a bit obsessed by this (and not in a good way). you're now suggesting they have someone sleeping in the toilet over night just to annoy you?
besides, so what if there are noises at strange hours in the shop below? as long as they are not excessive noises then they are not doing anything wrong.
it's not their fault the sound insulation between the shop and the flat is poor.
as I said, for your own good (as it appears to be affecting to adversely), move out.
Hold up - you think someone is sleeping in a staff toilet in a cake shop overnight just so they can make noises and disturb your sleep?
Read that paragraph again.
I think you need to speak to your GP asap as this sounds more like extreme paranoia more than anything else
Things I've had muttered at me in the middle of the night include 'we're going to get you out', 'gay boy' etc.
i go down and the door is locked and the lights are off.
I've also had them let off an air horn in there at 7am one morning. I go down and the door is locked and there is no sign of anyone in the front of the shop.
funny how you never mentioned it was an empty cake shop originally.
unless you have been inside then you can't even guess that there isn't.
i'm sorry but i think you are suffering from paranoia.
i would seek medical advice.
Seriously - see your GP.
in which case definitely move somewhere else then.
Always found that strange, myself. Quite an odd phenomenon.
yeah, you'd think the fact that the shop is empty and death threats had been given would be important points mentioned at the very start.
Have you got access to the shop? Why do you creep around their property at night?
Just what I was thinking. I assume you had no right to be there.
Go get some help
But what has their meter readings got to do with you?
Somebody may stay there overnight, however it is none of your business what they do there. If you can't handle the noise which comes with living above some businesses, move.
if it's just talking or general noise related to the business within working hours though, then there is nothing that any authority could or would do about it.
only excessive noise is actionable.
the OP says it just normal conversation level noises.