Issue with apartment management

[Bouji]

Originally Posted by robin

Do you live in a field, with no other people within a ten mile radius?

 

[sjmin209]

Originally Posted by Bouji

Sure, I guess if he just kept the volume very low, he'd stay out of trouble, but in the same vein why should he?

The obvious answer is because his actions are having a direct, negative impact on someone else's quality of life.

There's a big difference between the kind of temporary, anonymous ambient noise one hears in a city from traffic, etc., or the kinds of incidental noise of doors closing and floors creaking that one hears when living in close quarters, and the kind of steady low-frequency noise generated by a neighbor's subwoofer which, as others have noted, is generally powerful enough to travel through most building materials, even at relatively low volumes. Quite frankly, if you live in an apartment building and have any regard for your neighbors, you shouldn't use a subwoofer, as it's nearly impossible to contain the noise you generate to your own living space.

 

[hopkins_student]

Originally Posted by sjmin209

Quite frankly, if you live in an apartment building and have any regard for your neighbors, you shouldn't use a subwoofer, as it's nearly impossible to contain the noise you generate to your own living space.
I realize that now. I maintain that there was a more simple way to have it explained to me than calling the police.

 

[HomerJ]

Originally Posted by Bouji

This has happened to me in the past, although the police were not involved. Thankfully the law in the UK is quite clear with regard to noise.
There is no specific laws relating to noise, but there are times when 'public disturbance' is not permitted, generally this is 11pm-4am Sunday-Thursday, though it can differ in some areas.
What is good about the law is that it is 'public disturbance' that is illegal, not the noise itself, so unless the person complaining has informed the person causing the noise that it is causing them disturbance, the police will not get involved.
What was strange about when people have spoken to me about noise is that once it was the noise of my washing machine running that caused them disruption, in this instance I sarcastically thanked them for waking me up, and told them that if they thought that me running the washing machine was an effort on my part to cause disruption, they could take it up with the police, suffice to say I did not hear anything about the issue again. To spite the person, I ran my washing machine again at 2am and 4am.

Grow up.