How do I deal with a neighbour who keeps slamming the door!

[SlimmingMumOf1]

We've just had a neighbour who has moved in a couple of months ago (we live in a block of flats, we are on the ground floor), and my God don't she slam the door...! We have heavy fire doors as our main doors, so if you let go of it, it slams very hard and makes a sound that can almost vibrate your whole flat.

She smokes, so she goes in and out all day and the door must slam about 30 times a day, if not more. Last night she slammed it at 11.30PM when we was all sleeping and I almost got up to tell her but my DH said don't do it now as too late to have an argument.

I am always quiet when I close my door, I do it slowly so it doesn't make a lot of noise! I'm so fed up of it. She wakes my DS up sometimes as well with the amount of slamming she does. We both work so we don't know how often she does it then but she does it enough when we have day(s) off.

Should I write a little polite note or should I tell the housing association? I really, really do not want any issues or trouble with the neighbours at all but this is getting way beyond the joke now.

Start with a polite note or a visit! She probably has no idea how annoying it is.

I'm just worried she will knock on my door and tell me I can't talk... I did it ONCE, and I mean ONCE! Because I had heavy shopping in my hands plus pushing a pram so I couldn't catch the door on time.

Stick a note on the offending door asking people to please close it quietly as there are people trying to sleep. That's what tends to happen in our block - there was a note about a squeaky door at night, and a few days later, the squeak stopped :)

If that doesn't work, contact your housing association.

A house warming bottle of wine and a polite word about the door?

I agree with polite note and small house warming gift, she probably has no idea its annoying but might get defensive if you approach it in a naggy wayx

Go and talk to her like a normal person?!

Can you ask landlords to fit a Soft Close ?

Do the doors have auto close bars at the top?

If they do you should be able to adjust the dampener to stop the banging.

I would go straight to Housing Association because if you approach her and she is unreasonable then you have to escalate to HA and then she could become even worse of a neighbour. Just keep a day or two's notes with times etc. and email them to the HA.

Let the Housing Officer deal with her!

She may be unaware that she is causing so much noise but I very much doubt it. Some people just don't really care too much about being neighbourly IME!

Ask the HA to fit a door closer on it

I don't understand why you don't just ask her nicely if she could close the door carefully as a slam reverberates? A telling off from the ha or a note are far more likely to get her back up.

would go straight to Housing Association because if you approach her and she is unreasonable
But why would she be unreasonable? More likely to be unreasonable if OP goes HA first.