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If you have wooden or laminate floors them the sound is going to travel right through to downstairs. I’ve experienced above and below.

Here’s a few suggestions to try and help with the sound travelling, you are never going to totally eradicate it, all You can do is reduce it a bit -

Can the creaky wooden floors be nailed down? If yes tell your landlord that this needs done or you will have to find new tennents.

Don’t wear shoes in the house - get slippers or just socks when walking around, shoes make waaaaaaay more noise.

Carpeting would help a lot but I’m guessing your landlord would be like “fuck that” but rugs can be thrown over the floor to help a bit, there’s a sound insulation layer you can put underneath them too. This obviously won’t get rid of the sound travelling through when you are not on a rug, but it‘s about reducing the sound a little.

Get this stuff and put cut it up into little chunks and put it under all parts of your furniture that touch the floor. It will absorb any sound that travels through to below. If lets say a chest of drawers is open and shut while sitting on wooden floors that will travel all the way through to downstairs. Here it is -

[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00E0JVN7G/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_asin\_title\_o04\_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00E0JVN7G/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

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If he won’t speak to you then post him a letter saying you are taking these steps. Don’t be cheeky in it but tell him that once we have tried all these things there’s not much else we can do and it‘s down to your landlord to sort it. Make it about the noise situation in the flat and not about the beef between you all. And remind him that if you guys move out it will either be more students that move in or even worse a young family with kids stomping, shouting and crying and then he will know all about sound issues.

Does sound from his flat travel up to you as well? If yes you should mentioned this in the letter that the entire building must have bad sound proofing.

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If after all these steps he’s still on the warpath then I would keep an eye out for alternative accommodation and move. Notify your land lord and leave. This guy will be fighting with whoever lives above him that’s clear.

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One small story about neighbours at war because of sound -

Some so called hard man across the road from me moved into a flat and immediately starting giving off about the noise of the above flat which only had a wee granny living alone above her. This guy basically bullied and harassed this granny who I’m guessing couldn’t have been making that much noise to the point where the granny actually sold up and moved on.

Now guess who bought and moved into the flat above the hard man? An absolute fucking Psycho family with two teenage boys in the midst of been tearaway teenage nutters. The noise this psycho family created was unreal, and whenever the guy bellow tried to reprimand them he got ten fold back.

Oh it was so sweet to see him get his comeuppance for basically hounding out a granny from her home.

Can you guess which one of those households moved away next? 😂

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Don’t know what the moral of the story is, but if you Have to move from your flat just hope the next folk that move in are absolute nutters. Then he will be thinking about the gold old days when he had four nice students upstairs!