@drshelley said:Can anyone tell me why when they install timber floors in new apartments there doesn’t seem to be any problem.
We have timber floors – top of the line gear on 11mm insualtion. Imagine our shock when our downstairs neighbour told us “of course we can hear you!”
The thing is, we take our shoes off, we don’t run around or jump up and down. In other words, if you are so keen to be a ‘go-ahead couple” modify your lifestyle and have little consideration for your neighbours.
Or, you should tell this selfish besom “go ahead … and move out.”
Hold the line, my friend. They are in the wrong, you are in the right.
My compromise would be, since they have signalled that they have no intention of changing their behaviour, that you will let them put wall-to-wall carpet and underlay on top of the floorboards provided the promise never to remove it.
And pass this message on from the Flat Chat Crew: Go-ahead couples in 2013 do their research and know that doing stuff on the cheap in strata never ever works.