Top ten tips for being a considerate neighbour: 1. Try to site noisy household equipment such as washing machines, dish washers away from partition walls or place them on a carpet or rubber mat to reduce vibration. When you buy new household appliances such as a washing machine choose the quietest models. This will encourage manufacturers to make more!
2. Consider fitting carpets over floorboards and curtains on windows to reduce everyday noise in your home. Try to reduce the effect of noise from your TV and stereo by moving them away from your neighbours' walls. If you live in a flat with a neighbour beneath you, raise your TV and stereo off the floor if possible. Try to always keep the volume of your TV, radio and music as low as possible, especially late at night.
3. Set your hi-fi bass control at a low level - the bass beat can be particularly irritating! If you like your music loud, use headphones. But be careful, if you cannot hear other people talking when you are wearing headphones you could be deafening yourself.
4. If you like loud music in your car keep the windows closed so as not to annoy others.
5. When doing DIY, try and make sure you carry out the noisiest jobs during the day. Keep the evening for quieter work such as painting and decorating.
6. Consider mowing the lawn and using garden power tools at a reasonable time - not early morning or late evening when the noise could be most annoying.
7. If you play a musical instrument, consider practising it at a reasonable time and not early in the morning or during the late evening or night when the noise could be most annoying. Try to carry out unavoidable noisy activities in sociable hours which between 8.00am and 7.00pm weekdays and Saturday and between 10.00am and 5.00pm Sundays.
8. If you own a dog, train it not to bark unnecessarily. Never leave your dog alone for long periods - ask a friend to exercise it during your absence. In law a barking dog can be a noise nuisance and you could be prosecuted if you do nothing to stop it.
9. If you're a car or motorcycle driver, always drive quietly in built up areas. Try not to drive and brake fiercely. Try to avoid revving your car or motorcycle unnecessarily. Try and keep the silencer in good condition and only use your horn in an emergency. Remember, it is illegal to sound a car horn between the hours of 11.30pm and 07.00am and any time when the vehicle is stationary unless it is an emergency. If you are using a taxi or minicab early in the morning or late at night ask the driver to announce his arrival by knocking on your door or phoning beforehand rather than sounding the horn. If you have a house/ car alarm appoint a key holder who can be contacted if it goes off while you're away. And get it maintained regularly so that it doesn't go off accidentally.
10. Warn your neighbours if you are going to make unavoidable noise - having a party or doing DIY for example. If a neighbour is creating a noise, try talking to them and politely explaining the problem. People are often very happy to reduce the noise once they realise it is causing others a problem. Conversely, people usually feel less disturbed by nuisance noise if they feel they have some control over it. If talking to your neighbours doesn't work and the noise persists you could purchase this tape ...LOL
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2. Put it on repeat.
3. Set the volume on LOUD.
4. Then head out for the day.
2 comments:
this is a fact.
Living in an apartment building, I have learned how much I dislike people.... a bunch of inconsiderate pooheads, with their noise, and slamming of doors at 3 AM, and loud crap music at 4 AM
LOL ... so true about neighbours.. We cannot choose them. Maybe print out this article (but don't show them the tapes) and pop it under their door. They might just get the hint.
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