Hello, I have a noise problem about which I hope you could give me some advice, having seen your details on the internet. I live in a flat that was originally a two storey building of dormotries. It has been converted into flats using hollow plaster board as walls and the floors are wooden. My problem relates to the fact that the flat above my bedroom has a boiler attached to the wall (left hand side) which, during the winter, is left on all night. This prevents me from sleeping and I have to move out for 4 months of the year. The boiler itself has been checked and is fine-I have the same one but I think the building is such a bad conversion that noise was never a consideration. It’s in the kitchen on the wall above my bedroom and we share the same wall-on the left hand side. (my bedroom and bathroom is below her entire flat, my hallway beneath her hallway) However I can still hear it in the hallway (outside of my bedroom) and in the bathroom too!




(The boiler itself revs up and down (as does mine) but also makes loud vibrating noises as well as just being able to hear the boiler.


I desperately need some advice so my landlord can take this seriously and get someone knowledgeable (like yourselves) to do something (they admit they don’t really know how sound works). Because it’s a low frequency noise you can’t really hear it during the day but in the dead of night its loud enough to prevent sleep.

* Will putting some sound proofing matting down on the floor work? Im not sure it will because the boiler’s attached to the same wall we share and it probably wouldn’t go under the boiler area as there’re cupboards etc there anyway???

I just can’t find anyone who understands sound to stop it and I don’t have a clue. My landlord’s willing to try something-maybe matting but i doubt this'll work .. But any advice you can offer would be so much appreciated (i just cant sleep here and have to move out in winter) and i will pass this on.

su, May 2013