To consider asking my neighbour this

[cyclingmad]

I live in a terraced house, been here almost 10years. My neighbour on whole is fairly quiet and is retired. This year his flooring has clearly come loose, the subfloor that is because everytime he walks in his bedrooms there is alot of creaking noise.

To explain my living room and both bedrooms share the party wall.

Its so noisy that this morning he got up at 6am and it woke me up.

I've tried using ear plugs but then I miss hearing my alarm.

I've also noticed mine having started to make noise too now but im in the process of fixing mine, one room done one to go.

Would you go speak to your neighbour about it? It can't escape him how noisy it is because the one bedroom I haven't done I notice how bad it is when I do go in (rarely as its a spare room).

If you’re on good terms and it’s genuinely disturbing you, I don’t see any problem with raising this in a friendly way. You might mention you’ve had a similar problem that you’ve fixed.

I think you should raise it in a polite and friendly was, he might not do anything but you won't know if you don't try. x

He might have realised the problem but not realised you can hear it
It always surprises me - my best door neighbour would text saying sorry my child made so much noise this morning and I hadn't heard any of it
And sorry the burglar alarm went off at night when neither of us had heard that either

Totally missing the point here but can you tell me how you're fixing it OP? My creaky house drives me insane but I don't really know how to fix it.

@pineappleSun

I took all my furniture out, I've got wooden flooring upstairs from previous owners, carefully lifted it up (labelled it etc) so I knew how to refit it.

Pulled off the underlay. Checked subfloor which looks fine.

Bought some flooring screws and then where the nails are i put in a new screw next to it. Saved having to take up the old ones which isn't possible and means its safe as in wont hit anything electrical.

Put new underlay down as I wanted something warmer, refitted laminate and its resolved it. Just got other bedroom to do now but I have pax wardrobe in it so will have to do it in halfs as I'm not dismantling a pax wardrobe!

I need to go speak to jim about his jungle of a garden and the ivy now breaking up my fence so ill add it on to that.

I have no doubt he knows how thin the walls are i can hear him blowing his nose, his TV, when he is on the phone talking thats his thin the walls are, so no doubt he has heard me.

Are you sure it’s not ghosts?

Thank you @cyclingmad you are a star. Good luck with Jim, if you're on reasonable terms, you've nothing to lose by telling him.

What earplugs do you have that make you miss your alarm? Genuinely interested. I combine 4 thin wax earplugs to make two thick enough and still hear my alarm through that plus wake several times a night if a plane goes over or a dog barks outside etc.

@indemMUND I'm a deep sleeper normally anyway takes alot to wake me up, I've been using foam ones. Then again cos I know how thin the walls are my alarm isn't on that loud cos i don't want to be that annoying person who wakes up the neighbours

@cyclingmad: as it’s a simple fix, maybe describe what you did/ offer to help with it once lockdown over? I’m relatively handy but wouldn’t know how to fix this problem - knowing it’s simple& cheap makes it more likely to get done...

I see you are going to complain about his jungle of a garden and ivy too. To be honest I would tackle which is most important to you at the moment or you will come across as a nagging neighbour. If the neighbour is elderly perhaps he can't hear the creaks anyway.

@DespairingHomeowner

He doesn't trust trades people thsts his problem, I had a guy who was clearly ivy off my house cos it has grown over from his house (back of his house covered in it including windows) and I said he's a good guy please clea up your jungle alongside my fence as legally your not allowed to have plants attached to the fence I own or pay if my fence gets damaged. He doesn't talk to them nicely or five clear instructions and then moaned why the guy didn't do what he wanted.

He doesn't maintain his house, broken glass panels in front door, foxes have bought lots of rubbish into his garden through broken gate, wooden window frames all peeling.

A fire started in his garden one day no idea how and he did nothing. Wouldn't even let the fire brigade in his house to get into the garden. I had them in mine using my hose to put it out!

So he won't take my help either all I can do is tell him.

I just wanted a dense check k that I wasn't stepping over the line too much in asking