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[Jimmy-T]

If you are in a block where your upstairs neighbours have installed a hard floor and their stomps, clomps, thuds and scrapes are driving you mad, you
[See the full post at: Hard lesson for defiant timber floor couple]

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[peterepete]

Hi Jimmy,

whenever the subject of noise disturbances attributed to Upstairs hard floor surfaces arises, created either by the removal of carpet and the sanding and varnishing of the existing floorboards or the installation of a Floating Floor over floorboards, I tear up.

I wish to speak for the thousands who are the ‘Upstairs’ who must put up with the noise from ‘Them’ downstairs.

My building is a four Lot Strata constructed in 1940. Two up, two down. Both downstairs Lots have hard wood flooring.

To infer that you can only be disturbed in one direction in this regard is annoying to say the least.

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[Jimmy-T]

True.  But the laws such as they are ultimately about “nuisance” and if there is a proven noise nuisance from a downstairs flat – or one several floors away, for that matter – it’s the nuisance that counts, not the relevant location. And, by the way, we have adressed the effect of hard floor transmission of  noise on neighbours to the side and above in these pages previously.

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