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I had a problem with the noise from my upstairs neighbours which was becoming a bit of a drain.
My upstairs neighbours are an old guy who is plainly quite deaf and his grandson who looks after him and has a terrible music collection.
We live in an old purpose built maisonette which has very poor sound insulation and this meant that the TV upstairs could be heard quite clearly in our lounge. This would disturb our TV watching if the program we had on went quiet as our enjoyment would be impaired by the noise from upstairs.
Due to the deafness of the old guy, conversations are more like shouting matches and lying in bed on a Sunday morning, it would sometimes seem as though they were in our flat with us.
The final straws belong to Michael Jackson and Jon Bon Jovi. The weekend that Michael Jackson died, the grandson suddenly became the world’s biggest Michael Jackson fan and insisted on playing the one album he owns or has downloaded, over and over. There are only so many times you can hear “Beat it” before it gets annoying. My limit is one time, so it got annoying very quickly.
This was followed the next morning by an argument over the answer to a radio quiz phone in question, the answer of course being Bon Jovi. I’m not quite sure how the two of them got into a shouty discussion about the answer, but five minutes of shouting “it IS Bon Jovi I tell you” etc became very wearing.
That afternoon I started looking for soundproofing solutions and came across Daniel’s company. I spoke to him by phone in the week and he gave me some advice and guideline costs.
I decided that I would go ahead and have the ceilings soundproofed in both bedrooms, the hall and the lounge. The lounge and the bedrooms were the rooms having the most noise and I didn’t want to leave the hall free for noise to come through.
I’m not sure I can recommend Daniel and his team highly enough. They were an absolute pleasure to work with. They turned up on time each morning, they were extremely tidy and left the flat very clean at the end of each day.
As we were living in the flat while the work was going on, there was quite a bit of disruption for us and the working conditions for Daniel and his team can’t have been optimal, but they made it as easy as possible for us.
We did one room at a time, with the spare room and hallway happening together.
The finished job is brilliant, the ceilings look exactly the way they did before the work started, the only difference being that they are a few inches lower. Our ceilings were quite high anyway, so this really is unnoticeable.
Now for the noise.
If we have no TV or music on and listen carefully, sometimes we can make out the TV. I’m guessing he hasn’t suddenly regained his hearing so I can only assume the level of soundproofing we have is dampening the noise to an almost inaudible level.
We can still hear shouting, but it is now muffled and not as loud as people outside in the street so it is not obvious where it is coming from.
Bizarrely, we now get noise via the bathroom or kitchen, where we haven’t had the ceilings done (yet) and now keep their doors closed if we are after quiet time.
Daniel is easy to deal with, polite, careful and trustworthy. He is someone who appreciates it is your home he is in and treats it with respect.
The quality of work he and his team perform is faultless. I’m sure next time upstairs floods their bathroom and we need our ceiling replaced (this has happened twice so far!) I’ll be contacting Daniel so that we can soundproof that room too.
Having suffered 3 years of sleepless nights due to noisy neighbours upstairs walking around on creaky wooden floorboards above my bedroom, I only wish I had known about Soundproofing R Us when I first moved into my flat and how easy and inexpensive the soundproofing process would be. The new ceiling only took 2 days to install including replastering and painting and has made an unbelievable difference. I am no longer woken up endlessly during the night and can now start to enjoy living in my flat again.
Daniel and his team are extremely efficient and helpful, they showed up on time each day and left my flat so clean it looks better than it did before they started. Daniel even helped me to find a builder to repair the bedroom flooring (which wasn’t damaged by Soundproofing R Us, it was already in very poor condition).
I can highly recommend Daniel and his team. I am completely thrilled with the results and I don’t even notice that the ceiling is now 4 ins lower. Well worth it. Thanks so much Daniel and team for rescuing me from my noise nightmare!
Great job. The soundproofing has been more effective than I'd dared to hope thanks, I think, to the various different acoustic measures installed. The work was done efficiently and tidily, including the plastering and painting - so much so that the new ceiling in fact looks nicer than the original it replaced.
Thank you again for doing an excellent job.After 2 days I believe either the family next door have moved out or your soundproofing is working!
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