My alarm went off at 8:10am this morning, but I didn't hear it until around 8:18am because of hammering going on next door. Irritated, I turned off my alarm and seriously wanted to pound against the wall I sleep next to and shout, but my roomie was still sleeping (or trying to sleep). I tried to sleep, but that hammering was so annoying and extremely loud that all that really happened was elevated inward anger. I wanted to go to my neighbors, knock on their door, and ask "can you please do that later today? Around noon?" So, reluctantly, I got out of my warm bed (it's raining outside!!) and did all my bathroom stuff, and then the hammering stopped. So I thought, "oh, yay." But, no, now there is sawing going on! Maybe it's not my neighbors, and it's some construction worker doing something to the apartment next door..? Or it might even be above us. But still, what makes them think that we, college students, all enjoy getting up early at 8am, especially being woken up by hammering and sawing sounds?
Is it that difficult to think of more than just oneself when it comes to these things? I could reason that maybe they are construction workers, and they can't come at any other time, but the people living above us do some weird stuff to make pounding sounds on our ceiling. We haven't approached them yet, but at least, their sounds don't make my chest beat with the pounding (something like what bass does to me in music). Oh yeah, and these neighbors (if I may assume that the sounds are coming from the next door neighbors) sometimes put their music on so loudly that I (my room is right next to the wall we share) can still hear and feel the bass when I put on my earphones and put up the volume to my music. Do they think that these walls are that thick? I guess I can't full on out blame them for continuing since I haven't complained to them yet. But, it's nice to let out some anger through words when I can't shout them out right now. Roomies are still sleeping. *envious*
I know exactly how you feel! Right now in our complex, they're redoing the railings surrounding the courtyard of the 2nd and 3rd floors. So from morning to night, all I hear is hammering and drilling. I can't wait for it to be over. Plus I live across the street from a car garage, so that's also constant noise 27/4.
ReplyDeleteAlso, quite often this semester, like each weekend, my next door neighbor would have loud parties with loud music and loud laughter that I could hear in my living room. Even when I closed my room door, I could still feel and hear the beating of their bass. Like Friday-Monday morning to night (sometimes way past 2am), straight partying. I would go to the library to study instead, but I would always still be quite frustrated when I got home cuz I could still hear them next door.
So I did some Googling. It turns out that most cities have "quiet hours" plus my condo complex has its own set of rules on quiet hours (ours are from 11pm-7 or 8 am). I asked my mom about it, and she said that next time I could call the police on them (there's a fine for excessive noise, each police department has a number for these types of complaints). But that sounded a bit extreme.
Instead, I went to talk to my neighbor, telling him that the noise from his parties was bothering me because I could hear it clearly in my condo through the walls. Plus I explained that the complex does have quiet hours that he wasn't following. And from then on, I haven't had a noise problem from him.
Read this when you have time: http://www.yelp.com/topic/san-francisco-noise-complaints