To be angry about the constant thumping music from flat below

[Jenasaurus]

Now I am coping reasonably well in my little 2 bed massionette with my DD and her BF, we have been isolating for 2 weeks as my DD developed a cough, it didnt turn into anything and none of us caught it...but thats not my reason for this thread.

The flat below us is playing loud thumping music, the floor is vibrating and even with my own music or white noise, telly on all I can hear is Pound...pound..pound and its making me so irritated.

I obviously cant pop downstairs in this current climate to request they politely turn it down and they are probably using the music to cope with being cooped inside on a Friday night

AIBU to consider putting my washing machine and tumble dryer on at 3am so they have to deal with the vibrations when trying to sleep to get my own back? I feel trapped with no choice but to listen to the pounding noise and pray it ends soon

I would absolutely hate this.
Can you not wear gloves knock on the door and stand well back and politely ask them to turn it down?
Just explain how miserable it is making you all.

I was thinking about that, but I am wondering if its me being unreasonable as its the weekend, and before 9pm and they cant go out anywhere like the pub so making the best of things, I dont want to be a killjoy so will leave it for tonight but if they do it every night I will have to say something. The family that live there are very sociable and have a lot of communal BBQs in the summer months outside in communal area in the past, they are a friendly family and although I tend to shut my windows and put up with it, this banging from the vibrations is more annoying as you cant hear the music just the pounding.

I will leave it tonight and hope its a one off

I guess we all have to be a bit more understanding and tolerant of our neighbours at the moment, having said that I do need to do some washing, I was going to wait until morning but as they are having a disco I may as well put a wash in now.

It would drive me mad, OP, and I would probably go downstairs and kill the fuckers.

But I am VU and noise does my head in!

I am normally OK, but since working from home, I am finding noises more distracting and then when it carries on all night (which I hope it wont) I cant relax. I haven't had my exercise today and my isolation has now ended so may go for a short walk to calm myself down and hopefully it will be over when I get back.

You could ask the sax player on the other thread if she wants to join him?

Oh, havent seen that thread Devlesko I must have a peek. :)

i went up and asked the guy who lives above me to turn his music down on tuesday. middle of the afternoon, couldn’t hear my radio.

then i had to go up AGAIN at 5pm to explain that i wasn’t joking the first time.

as a sober alcoholic it’s fascinating to me to watch very very drunk people try to converse. we had a lovely, if somewhat circular, chat about Johnny Cash and he explained seven times that he doesn’t have a problem with me asking him to keep it down. then he said he would try to find some Bob Marley. i asked him not to do that. we went round that a couple of times and parted on good terms. to be fair, it happens irregularly but a gentle reminder is sometimes needed.

coronavirus be damned. i’m not listening to Seasick bloody Steve thumping through my ceiling on a Tuesday afternoon. not for anyone. and if alcohol kills the virus, he’s more that fine and the amount of fumes coming out of his flat mean i’m fine too.

he’s more * than fine

Could be worse could be a saxophone.

I used to live on the middle floor of a block of flats and the people below me were arseholes who constantly played really loud music: the bass beat was so loud and low that the tea would jump around in my cup and I could feel it through my entire body. It was horrendous. One day, after a particularly bad night, I jumped on the floor several times so hard they stopped their music and asked me what the fuck I was doing. I shouted at them to turn it fucking down a bit!

In your position I think I'd try and catch them in their garden or something and have a quick word about the noise etc. and see if they actually realise how noisy and disturbing they're being.

TwoZeroTwoZero I think I will do that, when I next see them, (obviously 2 metres apart :) )

I dont mind normally as I can escape the flat but being forced to stay in I have no choice in the matter

We've had a similar problem with our neighbours... They seem to forget they live in a semi-detached property.
I have been around the other day to get them to turn it down. I knocked on the door then stood well back. Not ideal but I couldn't stand it anymore longer.

I once knocked on someone's door to tell them to turn music down. A woman lived there. I thought I'd get verbal abuse but couldn't stand the noise/vibrations anymore and was getting agitated with constant pounding. I put my make up on, stood tall and gave the door a solid confident knock. I spoke calmly and steadily. I introduced myself. I told her I lived x floors down and that she might not realise it, but I could hear her music thumping through my ceiling and vibrating my place and that it was affecting me. Could she please turn it down. I tried to be assertive yet unconfrontational so suggested she might not realise. The woman just said 'ok'. I said thanks and as I was walking away I began shaking like a leaf, my heart was pounding and my adrenaline was sky high. She did turn it down. Amazing. She must have known how loud it was because it was absolutely blaring when I got to her floor that I realised I had it relatively quiet compared to some neighbours. Some of her immediate neighbours saw me do it and thanked me later. The block manager also mentioned it so word got round