Another almost inevitable fate of living in a multi-unit building or a multi-family home is having to unwillingly participate in “the party next door”.
The good case scenario will be a small get-together of bio-tech scientists from MIT and the worst case scenario will feel and sound something like the Red Sox locker room October 28th, 2004.
Right before you reach for the phone and call the Police consider this: you are going to have to live next to those people even after tonight.
Here are two quick suggestions:
Try and contain the party indoors, the more contained it is, the less affect it has on your neighbors.
Before having a get-together that you think might infringe on your fellow residents notify them, maybe even invite them and apologize in advance.
It’s not going to make it any less annoying if you are super noisy but it will help keep the peace.
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Who among us has not lived in a multiple unit building or a multi-family and had neighbors living on top of us?
Well if you haven’t, how is the weather over in Idaho?
If you have, I’m sure we all know that the combination of hardwood floors + a wood frame building = (sometimes) a stomping scene from the Blue Man Group.
Especially if your upstairs neighbor has kids or a stiletto fetish.
Obviously it has a lot to do with exactly how the building was constructed but you can always hear and feel when something is going on with your upstairs and downstairs neighbors.
My suggestion, which will not eliminate but will most definitely make everybody’s life much quieter is: buy an area rug, also referred to as a carpet and place it on the HWF (hard wood floor). And in a perfect world, get that special under-rug-rubber-thingy and place it under the rug to prevent slippage.
And remember folks “A rug can do a lot more than tie a room together.” — The Dude
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