So, how come I can hear this baby crying all the time???
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We recently had new neighbours in the other (rental) half of our semi, and they have this baby. I know they have a baby, never seen it, but it cries dozens of times a day. It spends hours a day crying. And I can hear it clearly in our house, through the wall. Surely baby's don't cry that loud????
I just got back from five weeks offshore, been on air planes for 24 hours, and all I wanted was an hours nap yesterday afternoon, but this baby is crying, and I can hear kids screaming and running around, and the mum is yacking away, and all the floors are pounding from kids running around. And I'm telling myself, the kids are on holiday, chill out.
I never, ever realised the walls are so thin, even in 55 year old semis.
4am this morning, and I'm woken up by this fvckin' baby crying!!! It wasn't just; baby cries, mum wakes up, powerfeeds milk, buuurp, sleep. Nope, this was a baby crying hard, for at least ten minutes, until I put my ear plugs in anyway.
Where was that thread about insulating the party walls of a semi.
And then there this Alsation, just down the road, whose owner was raised in a third world country, where it is deemed acceptable to leave your dog barking day and night continually.....
I just got back from five weeks offshore, been on air planes for 24 hours, and all I wanted was an hours nap yesterday afternoon, but this baby is crying, and I can hear kids screaming and running around, and the mum is yacking away, and all the floors are pounding from kids running around. And I'm telling myself, the kids are on holiday, chill out.
I never, ever realised the walls are so thin, even in 55 year old semis.
4am this morning, and I'm woken up by this fvckin' baby crying!!! It wasn't just; baby cries, mum wakes up, powerfeeds milk, buuurp, sleep. Nope, this was a baby crying hard, for at least ten minutes, until I put my ear plugs in anyway.
Where was that thread about insulating the party walls of a semi.
And then there this Alsation, just down the road, whose owner was raised in a third world country, where it is deemed acceptable to leave your dog barking day and night continually.....
This is the reason I bought a detached house.
A mate has just bought a gorgeous new build, really top of the range house just outside the big smoke. Solid concrete staircase, speakers in every ceiling, flat screens inbuilt to wardrobes in every bedroom, that type of place. Problem is it's an end of terrace and the lounge abutts the next door neighbours house.
He has a lovely home cinema system but has had to remove the centre Kef egg from hanging on the wall and not turn it up too loud because his neighbour has been round to complain.
My advice is to move house.
A mate has just bought a gorgeous new build, really top of the range house just outside the big smoke. Solid concrete staircase, speakers in every ceiling, flat screens inbuilt to wardrobes in every bedroom, that type of place. Problem is it's an end of terrace and the lounge abutts the next door neighbours house.
He has a lovely home cinema system but has had to remove the centre Kef egg from hanging on the wall and not turn it up too loud because his neighbour has been round to complain.
My advice is to move house.
Sounds like my ex next door neighbour. Major league drunk, has a trophy girlfriend, gets her pregnant, then spends all his time in the pub over the road. When she was heavily pregnant, he made her walk 3 miles to the nearest tesco, then carry all the heavy tins and beer home, all the time he is in the pub getting bladdered. Now he is up till all hours of the early morning, works about one day a week, drinks like a fish, then shouts at his mates to make himself heard(as he has to be the MAN), smokes shedloads of illicit substances and wakes thebaby up, which then crys for abot an hour solid, and which he doesnt give a flying f
k about, just yells at his girlfriend to sort the fking kid out. Thing is though, everyone round where i used to live thinks he IS the man, and he now has his own little posse of nobheads
k about, just yells at his girlfriend to sort the fking kid out. Thing is though, everyone round where i used to live thinks he IS the man, and he now has his own little posse of nobheadsEdited by snowy slopes on Saturday 20th February 11:34
snowy slopes said:
Sounds like my ex next door neighbour. Major league drunk, has a trophy girlfriend, gets her pregnant, then spends all his time in the pub over the road. When she was heavily pregnant, he made her walk 3 miles to the nearest tesco, then carry all the heavy tins and beer home, all the time he is in the pub getting bladdered. Now he is up till all hours of the early morning, works about one day a week, drinks like a fish, then shouts at his mates to make himself heard(as he has to be the MAN), smokes shedloads of illicit substances and wakes thebaby up, which then crys for abot an hour solid, and which he doesnt give a flying fk about, just yells at his girlfriend to sort the fking kid out. Thing is though, everyone round where i used to live thinks he IS the man, and he now has his own little posse of nobheads
As a good citizen you should have reporting him to the police on suspicion of running a crack den.k about, just yells at his girlfriend to sort the fking kid out. Thing is though, everyone round where i used to live thinks he IS the man, and he now has his own little posse of nobheadsEdited by snowy slopes on Saturday 20th February 11:34
bananapieface said:
Never buy a house that you can't walk all the way around.
I dream of a detached, in the country, no neighbours for 500 yards.....But, I still owe 70k on this place, and I'm pushing 50, so I think some insulation will have to do instead of a house move to paradise.
GTIR said:
I put up sound insulation best £300 I've spent. I did lose about 3" of my front room but it was worth it.
Easy to put up too.
Now I can't hear nuffink.
What did you use, and how did you do it?Easy to put up too.
Now I can't hear nuffink.
elster said:
Why do you all assume there is a baby?
You have just lost the plot, next you will start rocking in a corner while curled up sucking your thumb.
There is no baby, there is no dog.
Fool! I know it is a baby because sometimes it comes through the wall. Sometimes the baby and the dog sit at the foot of the bed crying and barking, barking and crying. You have just lost the plot, next you will start rocking in a corner while curled up sucking your thumb.
There is no baby, there is no dog.
Busamav said:
Herald ,take yer own advice and stop being a mouse and go warn them off 
or is it just Jonny that gets that sort of advice
I was waiting for someone to dish out some of my own advice. or is it just Jonny that gets that sort of advice
Thing is, you can't stop baby crying, can't tell kids not to play during the school holidays, and I'm pretty sure my family makes as much noise as they do on occasion, just we've never realised how un-soundproof the walls are.
Have a dig through the archives of this place:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/home-cinema-diy/
there are quite a few threads on effectively insulating a party wall.
http://www.avforums.com/forums/home-cinema-diy/
there are quite a few threads on effectively insulating a party wall.
birdcage said:
No King Herod jokes yet?
When I didn't have kids I used to hear other peoples babies/kids crying and it perhaps annoyed me, now they can scream their heads off as I am just grateful they are not mine to try and pacify-feed-look after etc etc....
I have a daughter, aged 8, but we were spoilt as she would merely whimper a little, late evening, then slurp some milk and sleep like a log for most of the night, until 7am or later.When I didn't have kids I used to hear other peoples babies/kids crying and it perhaps annoyed me, now they can scream their heads off as I am just grateful they are not mine to try and pacify-feed-look after etc etc....
Colic.
Go look it up, then hope you never have a baby (of your own) which has it.
Things will improve, until then (as the neighbour) use your earplugs and dont give your neighbours any grief about it.
Oh, and if you have no experience of children let me tell you that 4am is a fairly normal time for this sort of occurrance, babies like to wake up naturally about 5am, some go back to sleep until 7 or 8am some dont.
You can look forward to the child growing up and swearing at you when its older as well.
Go look it up, then hope you never have a baby (of your own) which has it.
Things will improve, until then (as the neighbour) use your earplugs and dont give your neighbours any grief about it.
Oh, and if you have no experience of children let me tell you that 4am is a fairly normal time for this sort of occurrance, babies like to wake up naturally about 5am, some go back to sleep until 7 or 8am some dont.
You can look forward to the child growing up and swearing at you when its older as well.
hman said:
Oh, and if you have no experience of children let me tell you that 4am is a fairly normal time for this sort of occurrance, babies like to wake up naturally about 5am, some go back to sleep until 7 or 8am some dont.
You can look forward to the child growing up and swearing at you when its older as well.
Indeed, I don't want to go complaining, as there are no problems with music or anything......yet...You can look forward to the child growing up and swearing at you when its older as well.
I may see how it goes then possibly install some fitted wardrobe type stuff along that wall, but put some proper soundproofing behind it. I may install it at 4am.
My wife had made noises about the fitted wardrobes long before the baby started its stuff
King Herald said:
I may see how it goes then possibly install some fitted wardrobe type stuff along that wall, but put some proper soundproofing behind it. I may install it at 4am.
My wife had made noises about the fitted wardrobes long before the baby started its stuff
That's how a mate of mine solved the problem you're having. Fitted wardrobes, full length floor to ceiling along the relevant wall, on top of a dry lining type sandwich construction. Seemed to work.My wife had made noises about the fitted wardrobes long before the baby started its stuff
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