now how? Still playing music until 1am? mco now more free for him.

Ask management first

they moved out eventually, after few years.

i also no longer stay there.

Sounds like your neighbors are reasonable and willing to take action on improving the noises. If it happens again, just call management again or call the guards and meet your neighbor face to face. They will usually be more responsive when they can put a face to the stranger living below them (as per my experience).

I can already tell the family above is expanding, so for the sake of my sanity, have already planned my exit strategy.

Wow, I hear ya... not just the noise, but I imagine a lot of sh*t as well? Isn't that a health hazard also? Like others have mentioned, must get on JMB's a$$ several times.

No, not reasonable at all, previously last year already talked to them several times. Guess the threat of JMC giving them a fine gave them an incentive to stop. So far big improvement since they were confronted. Let's see...

Aiyo, so moving to landed ah?

Ahhh, thanks for that, no wonder can't find any info online. Yeah civil court last option. Already got JMC involved, they had a 'nice' chat.

you can stay at the highest floor

What?! 4 floor above!

Condo sound insulation so poor

Hmmm....if you had to talk to them a couple of times, they’re just being assholes. Hope the threat of a fine will deter them.

Sad to say, a few days ago, my neighbors’ kids upstairs started their jumping and stomping again, even after midnight. The funny thing is I bought some mats to give to them, as a gesture of goodwill, but their parents refuse to use it....so petty, right? That’s when I knew how insincere they really were.

Landed also has it’s share of problems...my relative’s next door neighbors installed a subwoofer or a sound bar so you can imagine how loud it gets when they watch a movie.

I’m planning to rent a top floor unit at a pricier condo. Hopefully, that would weed out the trash.

Our condo is crap, what to do ?

do you see any insulation ? just concrete and concrete is not insulation.

imagine you are living in a submarine in the ocean. If somebody hammer from one end of submarine, you will sure hear on the other side. sound travels easily through the steel, same goes with concrete.

Oh yeah, definitely confirmed assholes this one. On the day they were visited by the guards they didn't immediately stop. It was followed by 3 hours of miscellaneous noises, stomping lah, screeching furniture lah etc.. so yes, ASSHOLES. Anyways, they were quiet for the first week after the chat but now they're slowly coming back with new noises. Last few days have been hammering/knocking in the kitchen area in the mornings and evenings.

Yeah, my friend who stays at landed has a neighbour who started rearing chickens and ducks, and because of the animals poop now got rats! Haaaa... so you choose, noise pollution or pest and smell pollution?

Wah, that's bad. I sometimes can hear from two floors up from my neighbour who has young kids running. But they're better than my direct asshole neighbour, had a friendly chat with them and they stopped.

I have a long wooden plank. If I hear chair dragging sound at 1 am, then at 7 am I wake up take that wooden plank and slam on the ceiling.

Google ceiling thumper for a laugh.

Compared to brickwalls, concrete transmit noise readily due to the material.


Sometimes the noise can be due to mortar and pestle noise..

There is no perfect solution but mass and dampening is required to reduce the noise transmission from upper unit.
https://www.soundproofingcompany.com/soundp...oofing-ceilings
Generally in short I would say using rockwool sheets BEFORE/whilst installing plaster ceiling will help.

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Great minds think alike. Here's mine. As a last resort have to fight fire with fire.

Hahaaaa! Yeah, I've seen that. So far my wooden plank works but ingenious invention this!

Oh, thanks... hmmmm but somehow I don't think this solution would work. Sound also travels from ceiling to walls. Have you tried this before?

this one can make noise ?

mine is a 2 by 4