So background - I live in an apartment block. Not sure if this was an issue that happened previously or we only noticed it last summer because we were home all summer (wfh) but we get a lot of water from our upstairs neighbour on our balcony. I’m not talking about a few drips but water pouring down at various spots all over the balcony (maybe 30 seconds or so of a flow before it becomes drips - trying to build the picture). To help understand how much water we’re talking about, there was one day last summer where I opened the curtains in the morning and I genuinely thought it was pouring down with rain.
They have loads of plants and they simply overwater them. It was really annoying but we never complained until there was one day where DH got soaked sitting on the balcony and another day where I was working on the balcony, went inside for a bit and came outside to my laptop soaked.
After the laptop incident I went upstairs to speak to them but they have a coded door to access their floor so I wasn’t able to knock on their door. So instead I left a note in their mailbox explaining the situation, and suggested that they try and not over water or maybe buy plates for their plants. Also explained why I’ve left a note rather than knock on their door!
Few days later upstairs neighbour came round and apologised. Said he over waters them and he always wondered where the water went (err, where does he think!). He was really nice. I had never seen him before and have only seen him once since.
For the next couple of months we still had some water come down, but not as bad as before so we accepted it. Towards the end of summer it went back to what it was but as we were using our balcony less, we just let it go as even though it was annoying, it wasn’t affecting us.
Now, as you can guess, as the weather is getting warmer, it’s becoming an issue again. I was going to leave a note to let them know. But AIBU to complain about water? I know it’s just water but it really is a lot. For some reason, rather than watering them all at once, they’re watered at various times throughout the day which means we get water at different times in one day.
But there is also another issue which is a problem. They are also ridiculously loud on their balcony dragging things around, every single day and often several times a day. I have no idea what they’re doing but they seem to always be dragging furniture around. It wakes us up in the mornings, and now we have a baby, he startles and even sometimes wakes up whenever they start. I think they have metal balcony furniture and it’s dragged around on the decking numerous times in the day, even in winter. It’s just so so loud. Is it petty to include that too?