Noisy neighbour boiler

Did you get anywhere with this? I'm in a similar situation, inky my beighb6is aggressive.

Try having a word with the landlord if you think it is something to do with the boiler as it's dow to them to make the repairs .

Gas boiler how can you find out is it them I do not speak to them it's awful

Hi I am going through the same thing I am in a council house and I think my neighbour has got a devise in that hums - electric hum through out my home I am so miserable l just want to leave I cannot talk to them as they are horrible people iv had no sleep 😢

I may be able to help you with this very serious problem which i have also been suffering with for a long time,
It made me very I'll and it has taken me years to identify the cause because i just thought l was one of the people who could hear that lower frequency hum noise that people talk about
It is the gas boiler noise travelling through cavity walls from neighbouring properties which some people can hear but others cant, but still maybe suffering from the infrasound which is very dangerous to human health

Gas boilers are damaging human health with the low frequency humming noise travelling through walls in neighbouring properties
Not many people can hear the lower frequency noise but may well still be affected by the infrasound waves interference with sleeping at night when neighbours have their heating coming on,
Experts in this field have expressed their concerns about the affects of low frequency sounds on humans but the energy companies won't listen because of the humongous financial costs to fix this potentially lethal problem, so we are not only getting ripped off by them but also having our mental and physical health damaged in the process

Hi there, firstly i would like to say how pleased i am that you've been able to identify this terrible dangerous noise because i believe that they will be millions of other people suffering with it like me and not knowing what the hell it is, i was convinced it was the HUM phenomena people mention but it is neighbours boilers in attached houses sending dangerous and potentially deadly low frequency humming and infrasound waves into your home through the cavity walls which act as some sort of amplification chamber and is very dangerous to human health,
You will find that the people responsible won't want to acknowledge this because of the huge financial problems and they are just letting us all suffer the mental and physical distress, someone needs to make som sort of stand and have this dealt with because its been mentioned in other articles by experts in this field that humans suffering from this kind of low frequency sound can become extremely dangerous and some mass murders have been known to be sufferers, don’t try and live with it you need to do something about it, i was feeling very ill all the time and being driven mad throughout the night and when i finally identified the problem i started experimenting with delta waves music, it may even bother your neighbours enough for them to switch off their heating throughout the night, let me know if you want any more info o that and ill send you some good links, and please don't take this problem lightly because it is a very serious issue which i known from person experience, if you are good with social media which I'm not unfortunately it might be a good platform to start some sort of discussion that gets more people involved and help they didn't know they needed because as i said earlier there's probably lots of people who don't know why they are suffering and cant even hear the dangerous low frequency that gas boilers are emitting but feel the effects all the same

My combi boiler was replaced a couple of years ago, and a few weeks later, my neighbour commented that it woke her up when it came on at 6am to warm the house up before I got up.

I mentioned it to the plumber, he popped round and had a listen, turned the water pressure down where the supply to my house leaves the water main, and that was it sorted. (We have unusually high water pressure, apparently, which is weird given we're at the top of a hill.)

He showed me what to do if it needed to go down a bit more. It was dead easy, when you open the flap in the pavement to reveal the water meter, there's a big screw on the pipe just to the house side of the meter. A quarter turn clockwise (I think it was clockwise) was all it took.

If your neighbours have a water meter with this kind of access, it might be worth giving this a go. Probably best under cover of darkness though!

My neighbour tired to complain about our plumbing noises and our air conditioner external unit making noises. Council said they aren't a noise abatement and part and parcel of living in semi (in our case). The neighbours asked us to not use them at certain times and I refused. Sadly, not really my problem that they are hyper sensitive to normal house noises. The funny thing is their son plays the drums!!! But obviously that is different as he is studying for grade 3.

Yes it really is . I'm hoping it breaks down on them so they have to get it repaired! I just don't understand why they are living with the noise and not getting it sorted . They know I can hear it ! but ignorance is bliss they say . I spoke qith the landlord who said they would call back and never did. So will have to give them another call. Glad you managed to get it sorted though .

I have the same problem , I have lived here 3months and next doors boiler screeches through my walls . It wakes my son up and he will no longer sleep in his room .. it is pointless talking to them as you get no where . Like you it is now starting to affect my mental health . I don't understand how they don't get nobody out to look at it , as it's a housing association and free. I have emailed the landlord myself and suggested a boiler check but they haven't got back to me . It goes of through the night the early hours it's just horrible .

Feel your pain OP our neighbours boiler is external and gives off a high pitched scream whenever it is turned on last night it was still screaming throughout the neighbourhood and our house until 11.30pm…this has been going on for the last 4 years we are saving up money to buy some acoustic windows to block out the sound as their mate the plumber/heating engineer is a bit cr@p Hope you find a resolution could you add some kind of acoustic insulation to your side of the wall?

@cara345

Yes it could well be that it is placed next to some sort of building support so the vibration couples in more strongly.

I suppose a silver lining is that if it is the pump starting to go and they are using it more then there is a possibilty that it will shake itself to pieces within a short amount of time !

sort of if it’s to make sure when you turn the hot water tap on you get instant hot water supply. If say I switch my boiler off overnight when I switch it back on it takes a while to get a hot flow. Hope that makes sense.
My combi is 15 years old and has always made the sound overnight unless switched off. It’s also situated in kitchen under my bedroom so I can hear it when boiler is left on overnight. All the pipes come from boiler and they do make low level noise expansion but like a lot of people say vibrations do carry.

Ok the only reason it makes no noise is if they turn the boiler off. The boiler is not broken, also it’s a combi and they work better if the heat exchanger is kept warm therefore when boiler is switched on it will intermittently come on and off hence the sound you hear (it happens even if no hot water is being used or heating switched on) It will happen more in the winter when temp drops. Hope this helps

I had the exact same problem a few years ago when my neighbour had central heating put in and the boiler is in the room next to my bedroom.
Would wake me up through the night, so I had a word but they didn't seem bothered.
I resorted to fixing a thick duvet to the wall and it really helped. I know you probably don't want to do this but it doesn't bother me at all now.
Duvet not ideal but didn't want to spend lots of money on sound proofing. Is there anything you could attach to your wall?