What to do. Cheap house always got this problem.

Jokes on you, why does the so called "water hammer sound" comes from the ceiling instead of the walls? Why does the so called hammer water sound, can move from living room to bedroom?? And why do I hear footsteps followed by the dragging noise? Cause it's a freaking chair la! Use some common sense la , MOST BORING ANSWER - WATER HAMMER SOUND. They use the toilet I also can hear, how come when they use the toilet I dont hear any so called water hammer sound? Seriously it's damn dumb answer, just because you people dont experience this doesnt mean it's not. And yes, my upstairs neighbor knowing it will annoy us so they do it on purpose.

I know one family got an oku daughter drag chair everyday

Due to the sensitive nature n out of kindness no one complain

LOL, we are educated people and we think for other ppl's sake, we dont drag the chair, instead we lift it up, we do things softly we don't slam the door etc, we dont vacuum at 12am onwards and we dont walk loudly like elephants. If yes, my downstairs already come complaint me. Cause my upstairs is indeed super duper noisy. Usually at night we just lay on the bed on sit on the sofa watching tv / scrolling on phone, we dont freaking make noise, so i wonder what kind of people get super active at night like them. I even woke up in around 3am and they are still doing stuffs and cooking cause I saw it. And walking nonstop throughout the day dragging chairs all.

People be saying water hammer sound cause you never experience it, I even went up confronted them and it's their freaking chair make noise and they completely ignored us and do it still, if moving out is easy, then this kind of post wont even exist. Nowadays all these high rise buildings soundproof is extremely bad. So yea, people who experience it like us can only just rant it. I know how a water hammer sound sounds like from my previous condo, a chair is a chair.

Nowadays 3rd party contractor prefer flexible piping that snakes through walls rarely suffer from water hammers. i don't understand kids answer with old school mentality water hammers.

haha yep, my downstairs also complain me, now we do things quietly, but whatever noise she just claim come from us.

the issue is she is night owl, don't sleep at night, day time if we walk, do stuff, then will woke her up.

but during wee hour, she makes a lot of noise too, like knocking her bloom to the wall while sweeping, cooking and so on, but usually i sleep like a log, but sometimes i go toilet I can hear those noise.

u both leaving at ppr is it? that is why floor so thin.

I avoid houses with kids above. They like to drag furniture, run around, very noisy.

Always check before renting if the above house got kids (if the flooring is thin). Best if the above house is empty.

most of the condos are like that nowadays, I asked few friends, all kena before

Not only ppr, nowadays most new condos are like that because they want to save costs.

some people pandai cakap tapi never actual experience it, leave it be

my upstair neighbour early morning sure knocking thing, then middle of night sure open water pipe fill water, daily.

fed up tbh

No I meant the actual sound of chair moving when somebody gets up. Some people get extremely annoyed even by just that. Normal sound levels but some extremely sensitive.

Imagine living with that all day everyday where whole upstairs family does it.

Avoid units with kids next door too…currently listening to the kids next door go crazy, jumping and pounding on things. I hope school reopens soon so these little devils can go away…their parents are uneducated and idiotic for allowing their kids to go crazy and disturbing people’s peace. I dunno how many times I’ve complained and reasoned with them about the noise.

And for those saying the noise happens in PPR flats, my condo is RM600++ but nowadays even people with PPR mentality can afford these type of places. They just stuff their 5-6 kids in a small unit..bloody cibais.

This post has been edited by mataharih: Oct 7 2021, 06:32 PM

How to avoid ?

If ur unit upstairs is rented u will never know which new tenant would come

have you spoke to the tenant upstairs?
if not record it and complain to mgmt...

Correct, we too noticed that older apartments/condo flooring are thicker, i've stayed at 1 too previously, couldnt really hear loud noise from neighbors, nowadays the noise not only coming from upstairs, but also downstairs neighbors. What to do ... move to anywhere also same, just hope the neighbor is quiet only.

Exactly!! I'm so sick of the chair dragging sound! Cause I got phobia from my previous neighbors who did it on purpose to us, every single night 12am onwards together with their kids, so currently this new place this 4 tenants upstairs love to drag the chair as well, I just cant! Also the loud footstep, woke me up every morning!!