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There's a number of issues with tenament and converted properties. Old tenaments used to have rubble dumped between the floors to create soundproofing this was often removed when they were refurbished as lots of builders didn't know why it was there. I don't know if this was the same for victroian buildings.

Having been on the otherside of this, I experienced the intimiate details of their lives, footsteps, sex (thankfully only once a month), pissing, shitting, guitar plays + stomping(daily), dog running and barking (every thirty minutes), full conversations etc. I spoke with their landlord about soundproofing and he was very dismissive. I understood it wasn't their fault but it was slowly driving me mad. I knew they coudln't stop living their lives so decided I was never going to live on anything but top floor flat in the future and moved. My solution to this before I moved was getting a massive pair of noise cancelling headphones


As others have said there is not much you can do and seems like you are doing what you can already.

Ask him if he raised complaints with the previous owners and whether these were formal etc. as they should have been disclosed to you before purchasing. Also ask him what he actually expects you to do as it sounds like they are just complaining rather than trying to do something about it themselves. You're already planning on getting soundproofing and that's more than what most people would do.

Tell him that until hovershoes are invented he'll need to put up with the noise and if he can't then he should consider finidng a top floor flat themselves.