If you live in a block of flats, what do you do about noisy neighbors at one or 2 AM?

[Hellokittymania]

I mean noisy arguing, playing loud music, etc. I really want to confront my neighbors, but I’m on my own… They are continuously doing this.

Well I am awake reading mumsnet. Stupid shitty loud music from two floors below. Over the years people have complained - even contacted police. They aren't breaking any laws so nothing can be done. Half 1 on Christmas day morning. Turn. That. Fucking. Music. Off.

Contact their landlord or whoever is renting them the flat and complain...make sure you keep a diary of it all

Also until it's rectified invest in earplugs so it blocks out the sound and gives you back some peace

If you have a white noise machine 5hat could drown out some of the noise ( there are also free apps that have white noise, rain forest sounds, etc that you could download and try out to see if it helps you )

It drives me absolutely nuts… No respect for anyone…

I’ve never listened to White Noise, but I am visually impaired and I also have autistic traits, and some types of noises drive me around the band… I will try it though.

My noisy neighbours own their flat unfortunately. There is no one who can evict them. I hope they get Christmas food poisoning...

My friend called her local council to complain when her neighbours were too noisy. I am not sure if they did anything but she stopped complaining to me about the noise so I'm assuming someone went round.

It’s not the case that you can’t do anything if they own the flat. Most flats are leasehold, it’s usually a condition of the lease that you don’t disturb the neighbours, and owner occupier or not, you can be evicted for breaching it. If telling them to STFU doesn’t work, speak to the building’s management company. They should write to the leaseholder (either the neighbour or their landlord) spelling out the consequences of breaching the lease.

Landlord, HA, letting agents, management company.
Police and council.

Remember if you are making an official complaint it has to go on record when the property is sold.

Complain the management company for the lease which probably contains a clause about not causing a nuisance to neighbours etc.

Complain endlessly to relevant authorities. In the meantime invest in "Quies". They're the only ones that work for me and literally saved my sanity. I cried tears of relief the first time I used them when my neighbours were at their worst.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quies-Boules-Natural-Earplugs-Pairs/dp/B01LHL84YE/ref=mpssa112?adgrpid=55910949249&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu8b0wOzQ5gIViaztCh2PGw-hEAAYASAAEgITwfDBwE&hvadid=259044785916&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9045946&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11584505829737227477&hvtargid=kwd-297882928528&hydadcr=74366_1749388&keywords=quies&qid=1577278585&sr=8-2

I have the same problem, OP.

Every single weekend a teenage couple play music ridiculously loud. They sing so loudly and it literally sounds like she's being killed. Drug dealers constantly outside dropping off bags of coke.

Followed by a sex marathon followed by arguing like they're about kill each other.

And. Repeat.

I don't know what to do either

The block I live in is always noisy at weekends, we have 3 out of the 9 flats owning dogs, so when one flat starts barking, they all join in, two flats have young people in who have visiting other halves, they make the most noise when they have been out at night & the occasional domestic fight which often spills out to the communal stairs. I'm not there over Christmas but you can guarantee that there will have been all kinds of noise & disturbance every night. It is one of the main reasons I am trying to get moved out, both my ds & I are autistic, the noise drives us crazy.