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I am currently staying with my mother who is a pensioner (I moved in because this situation is really upsetting for her and she has been a little ill). She moved to the current address about 3 and a half years ago. The whole time she has been here, there has been an issue with the neighbours upstairs and noise.
It is generally running around, shouting and banging. The banging tends to happen at night (well it happens all day and night but obviously at night it is a real problem) and seems very deliberate at times. We are not the type to complain about kids playing at reasonable hours (I am one of 7 children, so kids playing is nothing new to us), we have never complained about neighbours before and we have lived in some pretty crazy places over the years) but they can make noise at any time from 6am to 4 am (no exaggeration) and the Mother is the worst culprit. She seems to be up till all hours (as do the children) and will literally sit in her kitchen banging until 3am at times (she even admitted to banging on her table, when I accused her of banging on the floor?! - hopefully a picture is being built here). We have come to the conclusion that she is not quite playing with a full deck.
We have tried speaking to them. We have contacted the housing association and complained. We have recorded events (but gave that up to be honest) In each case they tone it down a little but gradually it all starts again. Recently, I have begun playing music during the day just to drown them out (only on my TV, not a big stereo system) and this has seemed to irritate them further and they seem to have launched an all-out campaign against us.
There is no threat of violence or anything like that, though my mother does get pretty frightened by all the banging and loud noises at all hours. I am getting pretty close to 'doing something about it' (though part of me thinks they almost want this to happen) and I am a little worried what I will do after being woken up at some ridiculous hour (having already been kept up all night and only getting 3 hours sleep - this is very common).
My mother is recovering from Cancer, so you can imagine I am not taking this very well.
The housing association has said she can look for exchanges but this is proving pointless as nothing suitable ever comes up.
I will not be here for too long, so it isn't really a massive problem for me but I do not want my Mother to have to deal with this for the rest of her days.
Basically, I think it would be best if they just found us another house, we don't want to take the neighbours to court or anything like that, we just don't want to deal with the madness any more.
I also feel like the housing association have been a little irresponsible in moving her here. We are pretty sure the previous neighbour also complained about them. (Mainly because she (the mother of the household) told my Mum that he did, when my Mother first moved in but also because it is literally impossible to live with).
Can we do anything to get the hell out of here?
Thanks in advance.
I am currently staying with my mother who is a pensioner (I moved in because this situation is really upsetting for her and she has been a little ill). She moved to the current address about 3 and a half years ago. The whole time she has been here, there has been an issue with the neighbours upstairs and noise.
It is generally running around, shouting and banging. The banging tends to happen at night (well it happens all day and night but obviously at night it is a real problem) and seems very deliberate at times. We are not the type to complain about kids playing at reasonable hours (I am one of 7 children, so kids playing is nothing new to us), we have never complained about neighbours before and we have lived in some pretty crazy places over the years) but they can make noise at any time from 6am to 4 am (no exaggeration) and the Mother is the worst culprit. She seems to be up till all hours (as do the children) and will literally sit in her kitchen banging until 3am at times (she even admitted to banging on her table, when I accused her of banging on the floor?! - hopefully a picture is being built here). We have come to the conclusion that she is not quite playing with a full deck.
We have tried speaking to them. We have contacted the housing association and complained. We have recorded events (but gave that up to be honest) In each case they tone it down a little but gradually it all starts again. Recently, I have begun playing music during the day just to drown them out (only on my TV, not a big stereo system) and this has seemed to irritate them further and they seem to have launched an all-out campaign against us.
There is no threat of violence or anything like that, though my mother does get pretty frightened by all the banging and loud noises at all hours. I am getting pretty close to 'doing something about it' (though part of me thinks they almost want this to happen) and I am a little worried what I will do after being woken up at some ridiculous hour (having already been kept up all night and only getting 3 hours sleep - this is very common).
My mother is recovering from Cancer, so you can imagine I am not taking this very well.
The housing association has said she can look for exchanges but this is proving pointless as nothing suitable ever comes up.
I will not be here for too long, so it isn't really a massive problem for me but I do not want my Mother to have to deal with this for the rest of her days.
Basically, I think it would be best if they just found us another house, we don't want to take the neighbours to court or anything like that, we just don't want to deal with the madness any more.
I also feel like the housing association have been a little irresponsible in moving her here. We are pretty sure the previous neighbour also complained about them. (Mainly because she (the mother of the household) told my Mum that he did, when my Mother first moved in but also because it is literally impossible to live with).
Can we do anything to get the hell out of here?
Thanks in advance.
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