You know those musical cards that they sell? If you prop one open and put it on a table next to your wall that is next to the neighbor’s wall they get to listen to the song on repeat for as long as you’re gone from the house. Yes, I did that once to the noisy neighbors who had no consideration at all for all the other neighbors around them. Pretty sure you can find a birthday card with the Happy Birthday song. And it’s amazing how long one little card battery lasts for playing those songs.
@Mooed78 The walls were really thin too. Just thin wood paneling over the 2by4’s that separated the dining areas in the apartments. Could hear everything in the other person’s dining area.
@cherokeepatti I don't know how the people that build these dwellings can be so cheap, as to not install sound-proofing. And I don't know how anyone lives like this. My mother recently moved into a garden apartment, and she says she can hear the stairs creaking from the lady upstairs every time she's on a phone call.
@MsSwan These apartments were brick with steel beams. They were built in the 60’s and pretty well-built apart from that thin wood paneling. I don’t know why they did it that way but heard it from the maintenance. I had neighbors who were Asian and one of the roommates was a loud-mouth noisemaker from the time he walked into the apartment for the entire time he was awake. All the upstairs neighbors were banging on their floors and yelling “hey, hey!” To get him to stop when he cranked his music up loud day and sometimes night. Concrete floors and all that banging traveled to downstairs apartments. I bided my time and waited till the perfect opportunity to educate him how well noise travels. My daughter was gone for the weekend with her father and school was about to start. I decided to sew her some school clothes while she was gone. Sat my old heavy 1948 German Pfaff sewing machine up on the dining table and start sewing. The neighbors were chop-chopping veggies for stir-fry and 2 young women knocked on their door, the guys were making dinner for them. I heard the plates and flatware being laid out on their tables and them talking to the girls. About the time they started eating I started sewing. My sewing machine was about 2 feet from that wood paneling. The machine was loud enough that it would make static on my TV every time I was sewing. They got silent for a few minutes. I stopped to get more pieces to sew together and when I started up sewing again I hear them knocking on the wall and yelling “Hey! Hey!” Just like the upstairs neighbors did they cranked up their music. I sewed for about 3 hours, those girls left about an hour after they came to have dinner. Nobody got lucky that night. And after that they learned to tone down the music. That loud-mouth ended up moving to another complex a couple months later. He moved right next to a guy from India that I worked with. He was complaining to me about his new neighbor being so loud. I asked him what kind of car he drove and he said an electric blue sports car. Told him that had been my neighbor and what I did to stop that noise.
