Forum: Changing our tune over noise complaints

Sometimes we feel like we are being led up the garden path by you lovely people, especially on the Forum.

A poster in the past week was worried about neighbours’ complaints about noise from their new flat and for some reason we all assumed it seemed to have something to do with noise transmission through the floor, following the flat’s previous owner’s renovation.

But you know what they say about “assume” – it makes an ass of u and me.

No sooner had we dived into the whole business of timber floors and insulation, and by-laws that coulda and shoulda been there, than the original poster let slip that there had also been complaints about their kids practicing piano and saxophone.

Okaaaaay. Look there are ways around that issue, if you are prepared to put the time, money and effort into soundproofing one of your rooms.

But don’t kids have the right to practice their scales in the privacy of their homes? Not according to strata law, which says nothing on that topic but does say that residents have a right to the peaceful enjoyment of their lots.

Seems to me that this strata newbie hadn’t really thought through the implications of living in an apartment with musical progeny.  Judge for yourself HERE.

Elsewhere in the Forum

• If an owner raises an action for compensation at the tribunal but sells before it’s resolved, what happens to the case?  That’s HERE.
• Balcony tiles have been damaged by a previous owner.  Now the balcony is leaking – who has to pay for the repairs?  The current owner or the owners corp? That’s HERE.
• Who pays for the EGM to pass a reno by-law that only benefits one owner? That’s HERE.

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