I lived in an apartment where the person upstairs had a laminate floor, which was so against rent rules. It annoyed me immediately. Clucking gluttonous all the time. I complained and the person upstairs had to replace his floor. If your upstairs neighbors rent their property and have recently laid wooden floors, you can contact their landlord. Many leases have an agreement prohibiting the use of wooden floors in the property. Most landlords don`t want conflicts so they can put pressure on their tenants. If you have asked them to remove the carpets or remove their shoes, a warning from their owner may have the desired effect. If it has been installed by the owner himself, he may be willing to discuss carpeting or soundproofing.
The advantages of laminate flooring are: – Tends to be cost-effective – Easy to install as it comes in the “click in” system – Wide range of designs as it uses a photographic image as the top layer Hi, I bought my top floor apartment (built in 2005) a few months ago and want to install a new laminate floor throughout the apartment. The living room and hallway are already laminated, but it`s a cheap and bright laminate; while the rooms have carpets (terrible). I want to install a new laminate everywhere. However, the management company said no. They said the previous laminate must have been inserted without permission and didn`t want me to lie down in the rooms anymore. I told them that almost all the apartments in the block have laminate (according to Rightmove), but they said it must also have been done without permission. My lawyer told me today that my lease states that I must “maintain carpet that is reasonably sealed with felt or underlay in all demolished premises or take other measures respecting the composition or flooring of the premises that the landlord considers reasonably appropriate, taking into account the tranquility of the occupants of the building or in accordance with any relevant building code.” My lawyer said that as long as I “provide adequate sound insulation, the lease doesn`t explicitly say you can`t put the same thing in.” Does anyone have any advice? I hate carpets. My sister said that if I lay vinyl floors, they are much quieter than laminate and the management company should not have a problem with that.
The management company can`t give me an answer for two weeks because their manager is on holiday and I have foreign friends visiting in a few weeks and I am desperate to prepare the floors as I still live among cardboard boxes. (I just thought it would be easier to prepare the floors before putting large furniture in small rooms.) Does anyone have any advice or has anyone been in this situation? How can I solve it? I really don`t want carpets if I can help. Thanks for reading. The advantages of wood-based floors are: – It can have an expensive resultant appearance – Less change due to temperature and humidity My sister`s neighbor upstairs took out the carpets and replaced them with laminate. The noise of him walking into the apartment was more than irritating and was one of the main reasons she moved. Please don`t. This will seriously disturb your neighbors downstairs. The owner of the apartment above me laid a laminate floor and assured me that he would use the best underlay for sound insulation. I can hear everything, every step, every movement.
When they put their cup on the floor, I can hear that when they roll over in their creaky wooden bed, I hear it too. Celebrations are hell. It is fashionable to consider carpet as old-fashioned and unhygienic, but it has many good points. I don`t think I would be as angry with the owner of the upstairs apartment if I hadn`t been forced to hear every move of his tenants. Wooden floors are one of the simplest and best flooring for apartments. Below are the three different types of wood floors, along with their benefits to give you the best possible advice before making your final decision: Well, after reading these articles, I just hadn`t realized how serious the noise would be after laying the laminate.