Noise

[Yew]

Hey all,

some og you may know that im a student, and because of this I live in student accomodation. However these last few nights ive noticed more noise than in my other flats, last year i was in the other end of the building, and it was okay, and over the summer i had the soundtrack of the railways to listen to, much nicer than this drum and bass track stuck on repeat at midnight

Im wondering if anyone has tips for dealing with noise, i doubt reporting it to the accomodation office would do anything maybe a 'well if you pay, we can move you, but even then all the accomodation in lincoln is rammed full. we evan have people living in portakabins.

can anyone recommend anything?


Yew

 

[Lampshade]

Well what I used to do was put some brass band music on a loop and go out for a few hours

 

[Crossover]

Depends on the uni really. When I was in halls they preferred not too much after about 10-11pm, although it still happened of course, but occasionally things were said by the staff.

Lampshade's idea seems plausible :P

 

[Eagle]

When I lived in halls, the most noise I got was from people in neighbouring rooms doing sex intercourse Headphones was my principal solution (well I couldn't really complain, and they were my mates anyway).

Luckily where I live now all I hear from my room is birdsong and class 66s.

 

[duffman82]

Don't you have Residential Assistants, In our Uni we have them and they usually deal with problems like noise, Food theft and smoking in halls and there students just like us so they can understand the problems and usually go deal with it. (I'm the Senior RA at my uni lol). Doesn't lincoln have security? You could try and ring them if its becoming a major issue.

 

[Yew]

I'm in private sector halls so we don't have as much in the way of security. I think there is always a staff member in the office. But god knows.


I liked my summer flat the best. Brilliant view of the railway line. And sounds too. Shame o didn't have it when those 20's where going past yesterday

 

[sutty]

I had some noisy chavs move in next door to me. It's a sought after place and they moved a huge set of speakers in amd blasted their music all day.

After repeated knocking on their door and leaving notes under their door, I resorted to the one thing that will stop anybody playing music. Flicking their breakers on and off in the basement.

Their was an argument, and then no music for a couple of months. Then they were evicted :P

 

[AlterEgo]

Well what I used to do was put some brass band music on a loop and go out for a few hours

Or Mull of Kintyre.

Seriously, Brian Wilson's "Mrs O'Leary's Cow" would be pretty annoying if played on a loop. If any of your neighbours are on drugs it may well shatter their mind! (YouTube it if you're not familiar)

 

[Greenback]

Ah, I remember some of my University experiences with noise!

When I was in halls, one of my corridor mates used to play forest music constantly after midnight. It wa sthe same sound over and over again. Fortunately, we got on well, so when i told her I could hear it and it was irritating the hell out of me, she stopped, or lowered it. Anyway, I couldn't hear it so Iw as happy!

Then there were the mature foreign students who used to hold dinner parties on a Saturday night. Our kitchen used to be taken over from about 6.30 until the early hours. I didn;t complain, as I know they would have preferre dit if I didn't come back from the pub at midnight on a Sunday and do a fry up with my mates!

Sometimes you need to live and let live, sometimes you need to have a word!

The worst experience was living out in a house of multiple occupation. Every room was self contained, but this boy cmae in to a flat below and was a nightmare for two weeks. He seemed a very nocturnal creature. His mates would come round almost every night and there would be loud music, doors banging, laughing and general disruption. The woman next door to me had a blazing row with them at 4am one day, then mysteriously, the next day, he was gone!

 

[Yew]

Yeah. I accept thatthere will be music on until say 10-1030, for people pre-drinking. But playing the same track loudly until 1am. Haven't they heard of headphones?

 

[Greenback]

1am is not regarded as late by some people, and this applies to non students as well as students.They may not realise how loud their music is, or that others don't want to hear
music at that time of the night!

If you are able to speak to the culprits, they may use headphones instead. On the other hand, there is a danger that they will be offneded by your complain tnad play the music even louder.

However that will no doubt simply elicit more complaints, so I would try and resolve it amicably at first, and then if that fails get the accommodation provider involved. At least then you know you have tried to behave reasonably, unlike the other party!

 

[Mojo]

Gone off eggs are quite good for throwing if the noise is on the street underneath your window. Else, contact the porter/concierge or whatever he called in your building. Sadly it seems for some students this is the first time they are living away from home, so they tend to get a bit excitable and don't understand exactly what they are doing.

 

[Greenback]

Gone off eggs are quite good for throwing if the noise is on the street underneath your window. Else, contact the porter/concierge or whatever he called in your building. Sadly it seems for some students this is the first time they are living away from home, so they tend to get a bit excitable and don't understand exactly what they are doing.

Indeed. I went to uni as a mature student at the age of 29 and found that some of my younger colleagues went a bit mad as it was the first time they had the freedom to be able to what they wanted, when they wanted. Or so they thought!

The differenc eis that there are still 'rules' even when you ar enot wiht Mum and Dad, it's just that they are often agreed and enforced in a different way - often by the consenus of the majority in a student community.

I am pretty sure that the majority don't realise the effect of their actions on others.

 

[Drsatan]

Gone off eggs are quite good for throwing if the noise is on the street underneath your window. Else, contact the porter/concierge or whatever he called in your building. Sadly it seems for some students this is the first time they are living away from home, so they tend to get a bit excitable and don't understand exactly what they are doing.

When I lived in halls my flatmates once had to contact Estate Patrol (what security is called at my uni) to get the people living upstairs to shut up since they were having a rave at 2am. My halls also had very thin walls and ceilings, meaning that it was possible to hear everything going on upstairs and in the next room. My advice to anyone moving into halls is: buy a pair of headphones, and stock up on earplugs!

 

[SteveP29]

Having the same problem myself but not in the university way.
Two blokes occupy the flat below the one me and my other half live in.
We get sporadic bouts of seriously loud music from Thursday nights through till Monday mornings, so loud we can hear it clearly as if the stereo was in our flat.

This has been going on since June.
I looked up on the local council's website on how to deal with antisocial noise.
The answer is to call the normal Police number (NOT 999), you get an incident number and they patch it through to the council noise team, who get back to you and call round if the noise is still going on.
So far, the police have been called around 40- 50 times, and the council have failed to catch them making the noise, as it always lasts for 15-30 minutes at a time.
The occupants share our landlord and they have been issued with their one and only warning, meaning that if they are actually caught within a year of the letter, they will be evicted.
So, not wishing ill on anyone, but, I hope they get caught soon and get kicked out so we can get so peace and quiet back during weekends.

 

[455driver]

Have you actually been around and asked them to keep the noise down a bit?

 

[SteveP29]

Yeah, we spoke to them at length after the third episode of the noise.

We thought we had come to an amicable agreement, but within a fortnight, it was back to what it had been.

Repeated requests to turn it down were accepted, but gradually as the nights wore on, the volume would rise again.

They just won't listen to reason, my stepkids aged 14 and 12 go to bed at 10:30 on a school night, there is no reason on earth that their sleep should be disturbed at 11:45pm or 10 past midnight on those nights.

Since they now take no notice of us, we now phone the police.
I hate doing it, as I'd prefer not to make what some might deem as trouble, but to constantly have sleep and/ or nights in disturbed by music playing for the street, is just not on.

 

[trentside]

I once lived in a flat next to an idiot who fancied himself as a bit of a DJ. He would play horrendously loud music into the night, but would knock on the wall if I had my television on. I was at the point of confronting him, when the Police turned up one night (presumably a complaint from another neighbour) and I never heard the music again. He was later arrested for shouting threats at people in the street, or something similar, so it was possibly fortunate I didn't have a confrontation with him.

 

[43021HST]

Hey all,

some og you may know that im a student, and because of this I live in student accomodation. However these last few nights ive noticed more noise than in my other flats, last year i was in the other end of the building, and it was okay, and over the summer i had the soundtrack of the railways to listen to, much nicer than this drum and bass track stuck on repeat at midnight

Im wondering if anyone has tips for dealing with noise, i doubt reporting it to the accomodation office would do anything maybe a 'well if you pay, we can move you, but even then all the accomodation in lincoln is rammed full. we evan have people living in portakabins.

can anyone recommend anything?

Yew

Do what a mate of mine did and go out for several hours with this blasting from your computer.

The nieghbours were not happy

 

[DaveNewcastle]

. . . . .the Police turned up one night (presumably a complaint from another neighbour) and I never heard the music again.

Twice, just twice, I've called the Local Authority's Nighttime Noise Team. They know the legislation, they know the policies which the Universities have towards disruptive students and they have authority.

But the interesting thing is that the Officers who go out are huge burly shaven men who probably spend time in gymnasiums.
On both occasions, tehy turned up and made no arrests, no confiscations, issued no notices. But the households concerned became quiet for the rest of the year, and I believe that the occupiers carried on enjoying their stay.
A good outcome, but not one to repeat without good reason.