Mutually assured distraction … working AT home or ON your home
If there was going to be anywhere in these long days of lockdown that mutually exclusive wants and needs were going to butt up against each other, it was apartments.…
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From the Forum: Can we say no to noisy renos during lockdown?
If you think being forced to work from home – or even just being stuck indoors with no work to go to – is bad enough, imagine how it feels…
‘Fun police’ jibe as $1100 fines threatened over noisy kids
A story about a strata management company threatening residents in an apartment building with $1100 fines if playing children make too much noise is bouncing around the internet. The story made…
From the Forum: Noisy neighbours trample by-laws underfoot
Noisy neighbours have been keeping the Flat Chat Forum awake for the past week. In one case it’s a couple who put down a timber floor without permission – yes,…
Fiendishly clever ways to curb neighbours from Hell
Nightmare neighbours fall into several categories, but most of them have varying degrees of ignorance, inconsideration, selfishness, bloody-mindedness and lack of awareness. Now, there are innocent parties. The parents of…
FORUM: It’s not my party and I’ll cry if I want to …
It’s funny how people react differently to exactly the same information. For instance, suppose you get a note from a neighbour saying, “we’re having a shindig on Saturday – apologies…
By-law breaches – cop it sweet or cop it hard?
If it’s true that justice delayed is justice denied, then there’s a lot of denial going on in strata. Taking a complaint against a neighbour – or even responding to…
Noise annoys – but what can you do about it?
It is generally accepted that you will occasionally hear your neighbours in an apartment block, but how much noise should we be expected to put up with? The occasional tap…
Balcony smokers in your top three strata gripes
The results of our recent poll are in – not as definitive as a general election but more accurate than Peter Dutton’s guesstimate of his support – and there is…
Roundup: The votes are in – noise annoys you most
Guess what! The thing that annoys us most about each other, is noise. Who knew? Far and away the most popular choice in our fun quiz about what irritates us…
How the cost of hard floors can go through the ceiling
When you live in a concrete and glass tower, putting down a timber floor can have a softening, humanising effect. On the other hand, tiles are more durable and easier to…
Party on … without making your neighbours hate you
It’s probably a little late in the day for this – it appeared in the Flat Chat slot in the Australian Financial Review last week – but it applies to…