My neighbors let their front doors slam close

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Hi
I live in a new bloke of flat , the front door are on a fire protection hinge that makes them close them self or slam close , I now wear ear plugs as I often fine my self jumping out of my skin at the loudness , I often get woken up as they slam on the way out and when they come back , one of my neighbours has a very bad habit of filling her car up so it can take three or four trips with door slamming, my other neighbour I actually counted how many times she let the door slam in one afternoon it was eight times (sad I know ) I asked politely for her to not let the door close on it’s own as it does Slam close and the vibration goes to my bedroom, she just replied it’s not her and I now have to put up with extra slamming of their door from her and her partner , at all hours , I so feed up with hear their doors and me jumping out my skin .i am waiting on my land lord to get back to me to help but still waiting 😡

Add some sticky foam tape to the frame, test it to make sure it still closes but reduces the bang

Or you can get the spring tension adjusted to stop it banging shut

This is why I can’t live in a flat ever again!
I complained at flat L to the maintenance company and asked them to fit a slow close door hydraulic thing, they wouldn’t. This kept me awake so much i would cry with frustration (I was ground floor)
2nd flat it was the front doors would slam shut, I did find foam insulating tape helped a bit but you need to probably alert your neighbours that the door slamming is very loud. If they don’t listen speak to your landlord or maintenance company if you have one?

^Flat 1!

It’s very frustrating, this was my move away from my other flat , he was a elderly man who would play music 24/7 and was up all night gardening, washing and banging can you believe he had pictures on his walls top to bottom no gaps and he would put them up at night ,he harassed me and was rude , now I have this , will definitely get back on to the landlord. Thank you 😊

I feel your pain. Our old neighbour was terrible for it. There was a door to the floor and his front door. Now can anyone explain why two doors requires 6 slams? I couldn’t understand it. One night I flew out and went nuts at him. He was a teacher but the rest of us weren’t on holiday as often and had to get up for work. Being startled awake at 1am every night then the repeated bangs for no reason made me murderous.

I feel your pain OP.

We live on the end of a row of three terraced houses and for the first two years endured our ndn slamming his front door every time he went in or out the house. He was nice, friendly etc and we got to know him a little, forgave his foibles etc. (I'm sure that he had stuff he endured from us too.) Then he died last year and his family were left to sort and sell the house, this took a few months and it was pure bliss - no noise. Unfortunately the house sold recently and we have had to endure builders noise etc since, then new neighbours.

The new neighbours have loud bbqs out the back, play loud (foreign, so we can't even understand it) music, just generally talk loudly out the back and front, slam internal doors all the time and slam the front door with every use. They have three cars and there are only 7 parking bays for the whole estate so keep stealing 'our' space and when they can't fit a car out the front they park around the back. This is normally when they come in from a shift at work that must finish around one or two am and at 1.30 or 2.30am, depending on shift, park out the back and come in the back door, slamming that too. Invariably waking me up, their door being just the other side of the fence to our bedroom window.

They do come from a country where they talk loud as a matter of course, so at 2am we are treated to loud conversations through the wall, peppered with hearing them using taps, boiling kettles and, wonderfully, hearing them pee! (According to the electrician who did work while the house was empty the gap between our walls is narrow so noise travels easily.) If they had not banged their door hard enough to make the windows of our house rattle and loudly enough to wake me I would not be awake to hear their toileting though.

They are very hospitable, but this means having loud relatives visiting, when they have even more people to bang doors and make loud conversation. More cigarette butts left outside, dumped out their car door too, they will be picked up and dumped in front of their door soon though.

Living with noise, especially unnecessary noise, can be soul destroying. It sounds like the slamming of the door at your flat is louder than for us so it must be unbearable, make sure your landlord doesn't try to ignore your problem, if they don't get in touch about it soon contact them again. Don't let them forget about it.

Thank you everyone for getting in touch ,when I read what you all have to go through (which is more than myself) , I can not help but wonder why so many people are oblivious and don’t care to the amount of noise they make .

I’m flat 1 ( on a 4th floor) so I’m near the lift, I get drunk 20 something’s either on their way out of an evening (bearable) and returning in the early hours, the lift beeping doesn’t wake me anymore but there laughing and talking at the top of their voices as they walk past into their section of the building does 😡

This could be me describing my new block of flats.

We are on the ground floor. This weekend was the worst because upstairs was moving out. They were evicted/ lease not renewed, because of their noise and rudeness to everyone else here.

There's a front door and back door. Both are loud, so I always slow the doors as they close, to try and keep them quiet.

This weekend, on the saturday night the moving neighbours came back at 1am and it was all slammed doors and stomping. And you could hear them shouting from their flat.

I try to make sure my children don't slam doors or let them close noisily behind them in the mornings when they go to school. The doors have that magnetic metal strip which is loud.

There are only six flats in our block. We own ours. We hope the next neighbours above us are nicer and quieter.

We had this. Front door was on fire door type closer so would slam at all hours (central london young professionals). We complained to the block directors (who lived there) who agreed and got the management co to add a soft hydraulic closer. Fixed the banging immediately but idiots would leave the block and push out the bottom closer with their prams or bikes which meant the door didn't close! Came home or left several times to find the door open

Couple of our neighbours were flat door slammers. Again we got the directors to send a friendly note to all flats about slamming of doors, to contact them if there was difficulty closing quietly and they would fix it. Come home one night to find three flats doors being shaved and it was silent after that! One of the slammers said the door simply wouldn't close without a good slam but the shave had fixed it

We sort of have this, the front door leading to the flats, gets slammed up against the wall on regular occasions I am on the 2nd floor and can still hear it.

TBH I am willing to put up with it for a while as when we moved in, we moved ourselves and its a good 30 steps up to our flat, I am fairly sure myself and my partner ran out of swearwords at some points.

Its only since I move in, did I realise that while you can't really hear each other when we are in our own flats, what happens in the communal area and on the stairs every one hears and the other families have young kids that shouldn't of heard the words we were using.