Am i unreasonable to want my upstairs neighbor to take up his laminate flooring

[lemonlucy]

It states in our tenancy:
"You are not allowed to lay laminate or wood flooring if you have someone living below you, if you do this and it causes noise issues we will take legal action against you"

Despite this he laid laminate flooring. He has been here 8 years.

since i moved in 8months ago, the noise from above has been horrendous, his washing machine, his phone vibrating through the night, his tv, him walking in boots, dropping things, moving things, ect
There is also 0 sound proofing in here in general.

I constantly use to leave my flat just to get work done when i was suppose to be working from home because i couldnt consecrate.
I did briefly mention to him there is no sound proofing and he said nobody else has complained.

eventually i complained to the HA since then he has been saying to the management how he has been here 8 years with no complaints, which makes no sense considering he also told me this flat has been vacant most part and also who is to say when he laid the laminate?
he lied and said he works and leaves the house at 6am and came back at 11pm
this isnt true either and say he has tried to be nice to me by signing for my parcels which is a normal thing to do and either way because he signs for my parcels it doesnt mean he can make as much noise as he likes.

what he was trying to do was devalue my complaint.

He did eventually admit to the manager he had laminate which i was saying from the start, it was obvious with hearing things rolling across the floor.

He has knocked on my door to say how im making his life unbearable as he now needs to tiptoe around and wear headphones.
I told him i didnt ask him to do this and i didnt ask him to lay laminate flooring, its in the tenancy for a reason and he said now i have complained he may get evicted.

am i wrong for this?
He was proper trying to make me feel bad about it but why lay laminate flooring?

ha ha ha ha ha my brother sent me that video because seriously those people were my upstairs neighbours. The bit that really struck a chord was the setting the alarm - I would be like "DO THESE PEOPLE NEVER EVEN SLEEP? EVER?"

He doesn't get it, OP, but he doesn't have to get it. It's in the agreement. He doesn't understand why it was written in, but it was written in precisely so that people don't have to understand why upstairs neighbours with hard floors drive you nuts - it's not just allowed.

YANBU.

Make sound proofing mandatory in flats.

YANBU. If the lease says no laminate then he has to comply.

YANBU for two reasons. Firstly he's breaching the terms of his lease. Secondly living below laminate flooring is utterly horrendous. We actually sold our garden flat and moved to a detached house because of new neighbours upstairs and their fucking laminate floors.

Our upstairs neighbours laid new wooden floors and the difference in the sound transmission was really noticeable. It was an old Victorian house with no sound proofing, and even though they did their best to muffle the sound transmission when they laid the floors it was a big issue.

I live in a top floor maisonette (HA) and it was clearly stated in tenancy agreement I have to lay carpet, if was also checked 6 weeks post me signing tenancy.

Yanbu. You aren't causing this. He caused it when he laid laminate flooring.

I had some laminate flooring done about 8 years ago (ground floor of a house so no downstairs noise issue) and I remember the marketing material pushing very heavily the suspension and underlay system they had available for if people wanted to install laminate flooring in upstairs rooms. It was shockingly expensive and I was glad we didn't need it. But he would not have been ignorant of the issue when he chose to have this done. He has been lucky to have had a mostly trouble free few years due to the flat below him being unoccupied. Sadly for him that time is over and he has no one to blame but himself.

I live underneath someone with laminate flooring & no soundproofing. We both own so there are no rules. They have a 4 year old & a 2 year old that like to wake up and pogo (?) above my head at 6am. They wear big winter boots indoors and always (daily) seem to be rearranging (dragging) furniture. It droves me to distraction & I'd love to move (can't yet) - but already worry about how I'd ensure they were out when we showed potential buyers round! I really feel for you, but I'd definitely follow this up with the HA, you may get it sorted!!

There is a BIG difference in sound noise between carpet and laminate. Carpet muffles and absorbs sound, laminate magnifies it. Yanbu btw, he is breaking the lease, and being inconsiderate of his neighbours.