I live @ Blk 145 Yishun Street 11, my neighbour living downstair have been creating nuisance noise as and when they like with thier own DIY renovation since more than 1 year + already and I had been tolerating them.
until recently on 06 June this month they started doing heavy renovation.
at times, they will start knocking, drilling early morning 8am + and at time late at night 11pm+ and this have been happening withing few days to a week for the pass 1 year +
I had called the police, called/written letter to HDB, called up town council. seem like nothing working. They still doing their renovaion as and when they like at his own time.
last saturday, 8:30am they start heavy knocking and drilling i called the police to come down, but accoding to the police they refuse to open up their door to talk to the police thus the police left.
endured until 1:30pm, I went and bang on their door and question him abt his renovation. His reply was " they are doing renovation and they never do it every day so whats the problem"
apart from they kocking and drilling, they hav huge Dogs in their home and are constantly barking all day long. so long their dogs hear "others" sound they start barking, when they hav visitor at their door they start barking. ( when their dog bark my Handphone measure 72dp, so u can imagine how nosiy it will be with the knocking and drilling)
I can put up with their dogs barking, but really cannot torlerate anymore with their own DIY.
according to HDU “Guidelines for Building Works” heavy renovation need to apply permit and the permit last for 1 month and only from monday to friday 9am - 5pm exculde public holidays and weekends.
The person from HDU called me up and said they can only go advise him, and they are allow to do their own DIY at homes.
Really? as and when they like and especially weekends and after office hours as and when they like?
This is driving me crazy and these excessive noise really stress me up as i had been “accommodating” it.
I definitely have increased blood pressure and increased annoyance and aggression level.
anyone can advice please? please...please...
Originally posted by Nvance:I live @ Blk 145 Yishun Street 11, my neighbour living downstair have been creating nuisance noise as and when they like with thier own DIY renovation since more than 1 year + already and I had been tolerating them.
until recently on 06 June this month they started doing heavy renovation.
at times, they will start knocking, drilling early morning 8am + and at time late at night 11pm+ and this have been happening withing few days to a week for the pass 1 year +
I had called the police, called/written letter to HDB, called up town council. seem like nothing working. They still doing their renovaion as and when they like at his own time.
last saturday, 8:30am they start heavy knocking and drilling i called the police to come down, but accoding to the police they refuse to open up their door to talk to the police thus the police left.
endured until 1:30pm, I went and bang on their door and question him abt his renovation. His reply was " they are doing renovation and they never do it every day so whats the problem"
apart from they kocking and drilling, they hav huge Dogs in their home and are constantly barking all day long. so long their dogs hear "others" sound they start barking, when they hav visitor at their door they start barking. ( when their dog bark my Handphone measure 72dp, so u can imagine how nosiy it will be with the knocking and drilling)
I can put up with their dogs barking, but really cannot torlerate anymore with their own DIY.
according to HDU “Guidelines for Building Works” heavy renovation need to apply permit and the permit last for 1 month and only from monday to friday 9am - 5pm exculde public holidays and weekends.
The person from HDU called me up and said they can only go advise him, and they are allow to do their own DIY at homes.
Really? as and when they like and especially weekends and after office hours as and when they like?
This is driving me crazy and these excessive noise really stress me up as i had been “accommodating” it.
I definitely have increased blood pressure and increased annoyance and aggression level.
anyone can advice please? please...please...
Surely, their Long term renovation affects neighbors all around that unit; up, down left right.
You should go talk to the other affected neighbors and together approach the inconsiderate unit owner.
Agree on what time they can start and what time they should end. Be reasonable.
Since it is DIY, you should allow limited after office hours for them to finish what they need to do.
Do remember that one day, you or the other neighbors will have your/their turn renovating home too, and the table will be turned. So do unto others what you want others to do unto you or your better neighbors.
Actually only 2 units are affected, coz I living on the 3rd floor corner unit, his is on the 2nd floor coner unit. The other unit affected is the one beside them but it seem to me they rather remain silent and endure it.
I really hate to go to his house to knock on his door anymore. Well u can say I'm afraid to.
Coz last saturday, when i go knock on his door, his Dogs already barking non stop. The moment he open the door, his giant dog already leap onto the metal gate and stand face to face to me and keep barking, If not for the gate i already in hosipital.
I was confronting him and his dog keep barking until he go mad and punch and kick his poor dog to go away. If only u had seen his action toward that poor dog.
Originally posted by Nvance:Actually only 2 units are affected, coz I living on the 3rd floor corner unit, his is on the 2nd floor coner unit. The other unit affected is the one beside them but it seem to me they rather remain silent and endure it.
I really hate to go to his house to knock on his door anymore. Well u can say I'm afraid to.
Coz last saturday, when i go knock on his door, his Dogs already barking non stop. The moment he open the door, his giant dog already leap onto the metal gate and stand face to face to me and keep barking, If not for the gate i already in hosipital.
I was confronting him and his dog keep barking until he go mad and punch and kick his poor dog to go away. If only u had seen his action toward that poor dog.
What's the point of being so trigger happy? Hostility only begets hostility.
Next time when u go talk to your downstairs neighbor, bring a bag of dog treat, make sure it's good quality stuff. Next time the dog see u, it will be wagging its tail instead of barking it's head off.
Ask when he plans to complete the renovation, and offer your help to hasten the completion. When u help him u r also helping yourself.
Sorry, i dont understand what you mean by "What's the point of being so trigger happy?"
and offering my help to him as and when he feel like doing some DIY, especially after office hour and during the weekend for the next few months to years maybe?
sorry I'm not able to do that. Helping him is as thou as creating more disturbance to others.
Noise pollution falls under NEA.
Didn't the police or town council advise you to report to NEA when you call them?
But be prepared that NEA can't do much too.
Perhaps warn them for a couple of times and if you still keep on complain they may fine them and that is all
Originally posted by Nvance:Sorry, i dont understand what you mean by "What's the point of being so trigger happy?"
and offering my help to him as and when he feel like doing some DIY, especially after office hour and during the weekend for the next few months to years maybe?
sorry I'm not able to do that. Helping him is as thou as creating more disturbance to others.
Fren.
You never read Sun Tzu Art of War?
You live on top of the neighbor, you have the battlefield advantage. Understand or not? Higher ground.
You can retaliate by hammering your floor until they stop making those noise.
Originally posted by single_alone:Noise pollution falls under NEA.
Didn't the police or town council advise you to report to NEA when you call them?
But be prepared that NEA can't do much too.
Perhaps warn them for a couple of times and if you still keep on complain they may fine them and that is all
Nope, the police said since they refuse to open the door there nothing they can do and advice to seek HDB/Town council help and left.
HDU so far only replied saying " they are allow to do DIY provided within the specific time and days and they would go advice them again"
Ok, NEA, will try that.
Thz
Originally posted by speakoutfor:
Fren.You never read Sun Tzu Art of War?
You live on top of the neighbor, you have the battlefield advantage. Understand or not? Higher ground.
You can retaliate by hammering your floor until they stop making those noise.
Hmm... think not a gd idea, coz on top got other families and think hav kids and at night they tends to drag furniture and jump, drop marbles etc. my neighbour living beside me also complain saying that its annoying and affect their sleep.
If I do tat ya it would affect tat family below me but also the others few families around. Apart from that, making more noise affect my family as well. Dogs barking + Kids already noisy enough. :p
I don't think its renovation.
Most propably it is a home workshop. Get the HDB to check it out.
If it is really renovation, get them to check out if there are illegal modifications. Especially with the electricals.
As long as they are not breaking any law, even if u invite monkey god sun wu kong into their house to trash their home also no use lah.
Neighbor trashing only make the environment hostile and unpleasant to live in.
I had talk to other Families living around that unit, the family living beside that family knw that this had been ongoing for years and they are enduring it and they are in a very difficult position coz they see each other daily thus they do not want to make complaint and will continue accomodate with the noise.
The family living beside me said they are affected with the noise.
The family on top my floor also affect and they said they always thought the knocking and drilling works are from the 5th floor and they had called police before.
All had been enduring it for more than a year.
No one wish to be disturbed by knocking drilling noise especially on weekend and late at night and for over a year.
Just yesterday Sunday they started doing noisy knocking at 5pm and all the way to 10pm.
Called police they said they will refer to town council.
From what my understanding,
1. For new blocks, the approved work must be completed within 4 months from the date of the permit.
2. For existing blocks, the approved work must be completed within 1 month from the date of the permit.
3. No Work shall be carried out before 8 am or after 6 pm.
4. Noisy Work such as cutting of tiles, demolition of walls and removing
floor/wall finishes are restricted from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm during the
weekdays. Such work are not allowed on Saturdays, Sundays and Public
Holidays.
5. At any one time, only two of the approved hand-held power tools or their approved equivalents are allowed to be used.
6. Renovation contractors are not allowed to take more than three
consecutive days to demolish walls and/or removal of wall/floor
finishes.
Play basketball in the flat?
If you can get the support of the whole neighborhood than at least can write pettition to pressure the troublemakers.
Other than that, think you should seriously consider moving to a house. If cannot afford one, buy a house in JB and travel causeway to work.
Counter-noise + note will make him give up his habit.
chances are, your neighbour above is treating their place as a workshop to fulltime fix hardware/furnitures. report this to hdb/town council.
Maybe your neighbour is a School of Construction, giving training to new workers. Lots of night courses for civil enginneering grade 1 for toilet piping.
One year?
What else is there to renovate?
Originally posted by dangerboi:
One year?
What else is there to renovate?
around 18 months...what kind of freak would be drilling, knocking every few days for such period?
Thats why I'm so annoyed with it.
Have been kinda quiet down for a week and started drilling again yesterday (27/06/12). And from 8pm onward till 11pm he have been dragging stuff, you knw those noise whereby ppl drag furniture. at least still bearable than the drilling.
1) report nea, list all the time you complain to various dept. File a report CMC (community mediation centre) to irritate them.
2) report AVA, as you state they have big dogs (plural), HDB and AVA only allow 1 toy dog for HDB, no plural and no big breed... report the dogs....
Use alh long tactic, throw paint, pig head, fish head or whatever head on their door, or take the whole block plants and place it infront of their door so that they open the door only, wha, new garden by the Bay
Originally posted by angel7030:Use alh long tactic, throw paint, pig head, fish head or whatever head on their door, or take the whole block plants and place it infront of their door so that they open the door only, wha, new garden by the Bay
same thing happened to me......with noisy ones upstairs.then when i went up to talk after many years of torture,i discovered someone had already put graffati n pig head on the noisy neighbours door.
If pig or shark fin still cannot work, then buy a padlock head and lock their front door, if got extra cash, buy three padlock head, those with combination also good, let them go and figure out the combination, like this, no time for noises