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Author	imtriing
Comment	Depends whether they own or rent, to be honest. Lots of tenements have really shit sound dampening between floors - most tenements, before the original floors were laid, had anything and everything jammed underneath them to act as sound dampening - brick dust, bricks, building rubble, rubbish - basically, whatever waste shit leftover from building the building that was kicking about. And in some cases, they used nothing. The other thing that could have happened is that during renovation, this stuff was removed to make way for pipework or wiring and then was insufficiently replaced, meaning their floor is basically just a big drum. So, from their end - if you can appeal to their sensibilities - would be to have their floors lifted and have some kind of substrate added to help dampen the sound of their footsteps on the floor and other sound travelling down. But this is a big ask, and would probably require a fair amount of negotiation. Other things like rugs can make a big difference, and also just being conscious of how you move through your flat etc. I live on the top floor of a tenement and always either walk about barefoot or in slippers and with a mind on not stomping/walking on my heels/marching around because I am sure my downstairs neighbour would not appreciate that... I think the fact that they're having band practices and not, you know, getting a studio for that... maybe they are just arseholes who don't give a fuck. From your end, foam sound insulation with the cones facing upwards stuck to your ceiling, basically to create a false ceiling, or some very good active noise cancelling headphones.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/weaxyn/noise_in_a_tenement_flat_help/iinutx7/
Created	Tue 2nd Aug 2022 5:35pm
Status	normal ()

Depends whether they own or rent, to be honest. Lots of tenements have really shit sound dampening between floors - most tenements, before the original floors were laid, had anything and everything jammed underneath them to act as sound dampening - brick dust, bricks, building rubble, rubbish - basically, whatever waste shit leftover from building the building that was kicking about. And in some cases, they used nothing. The other thing that could have happened is that during renovation, this stuff was removed to make way for pipework or wiring and then was insufficiently replaced, meaning their floor is basically just a big drum.

So, from their end - if you can appeal to their sensibilities - would be to have their floors lifted and have some kind of substrate added to help dampen the sound of their footsteps on the floor and other sound travelling down. But this is a big ask, and would probably require a fair amount of negotiation. Other things like rugs can make a big difference, and also just being conscious of how you move through your flat etc. I live on the top floor of a tenement and always either walk about barefoot or in slippers and with a mind on not stomping/walking on my heels/marching around because I am sure my downstairs neighbour would not appreciate that... I think the fact that they're having band practices and not, you know, getting a studio for that... maybe they are just arseholes who don't give a fuck.

From your end, foam sound insulation with the cones facing upwards stuck to your ceiling, basically to create a false ceiling, or some very good active noise cancelling headphones.