Noise is #1 to check for sure when renting condos. Road noise here is a particular problem as the moronic architects normally design the condo to face the road.... I hadn't seen that one (sports on top) as an issue as normally the tennis courts are on top of the car park building. Try to go in the evening and view the apartment in the quiet. Turn of the sound system that the agent has running to disguise noise, take your shoes off and stuff the socks in the dribbling diarrhoeic gob of the same agent and sit for at least 15 minutes to let your ears adjust. If the CEA tard won't let you do that push him out the window and find another apartment.byseeksconseil1 wrote:Hi,
I am looking for a top-floor unit (as I don't want people to stomp around above my head). I saw one such unit today. Everything is good. However, there is a tennis court and terrace space on the rooftop, which everyone in the building can access.
How much of a potential problem could this be? I do not want to hear the impact noise from people jumping on the tennis court and balls hitting the ground. Could this be a potential problem? If anyone has lived in such units, please feel free to share your experience/perspective.
Thanks.
I think the only way to tell is to get one person to the tennis court to start jumping and yourself inside to listen. No way to predict how well they have done the soundproofing.byseeksconseil1 wrote:Hi,
I am looking for a top-floor unit (as I don't want people to stomp around above my head). I saw one such unit today. Everything is good. However, there is a tennis court and terrace space on the rooftop, which everyone in the building can access.
How much of a potential problem could this be? I do not want to hear the impact noise from people jumping on the tennis court and balls hitting the ground. Could this be a potential problem? If anyone has lived in such units, please feel free to share your experience/perspective.
Thanks.
PNGMK wrote:
Noise is #1 to check for sure when renting condos. Road noise here is a particular problem as the moronic architects normally design the condo to face the road.... I hadn't seen that one (sports on top) as an issue as normally the tennis courts are on top of the car park building. Try to go in the evening and view the apartment in the quiet. Turn of the sound system that the agent has running to disguise noise, take your shoes off and stuff the socks in the dribbling diarrhoeic gob of the same agent and sit for at least 15 minutes to let your ears adjust. If the CEA tard won't let you do that push him out the window and find another apartment.
x9200 wrote:
I think the only way to tell is to get one person to the tennis court to start jumping and yourself inside to listen. No way to predict how well they have done the soundproofing.
I live in a top floor apartment of a regular condo (nothing but the roof above) and can hear the bloody water pumps operating. In the previous place, also rooftop with the terrace, rather lousy built "executive" condo, I could hear hardly anything when somebody was there and there was also a lift engine room adjacent to the place.
PNGMK wrote:If you have to close windows to control noise levels it's not a habitable home.
I had a bloody arse delivering my IHT at 5:30 in the morning on an incredibly loud two cycle bike with no muffler. I finally got up one morning and threatened to beat him to death with his own newspaper... no, actually, threatened that if he woke me up one more time I would have his job. Oddly enough, he started riding a much quieter bike.x9200 wrote:(2) speeding motorbikes in the middle of the nights.
Riding with no/n-standard muffler is like a local hobby. LTA and TP seem to be well aware of it and for the last 2-3 years the LTA inspection centres are really obsessed in checking if the muffler is original.Strong Eagle wrote:I had a bloody arse delivering my IHT at 5:30 in the morning on an incredibly loud two cycle bike with no muffler. I finally got up one morning and threatened to beat him to death with his own newspaper... no, actually, threatened that if he woke me up one more time I would have his job. Oddly enough, he started riding a much quieter bike.x9200 wrote:(2) speeding motorbikes in the middle of the nights.
The Harley assholes, and a bunch of others, keep the stock pipes in the closet. When inspection time comes, they pop off their annoying noisemakers, and pop on the stock pipes. Post inspection, back to the same obnoxious dreck. What a bunch of humps!bgd wrote:How on earth do Harleys get away with making such a racket?
Guy behind me in the queue yesterday was getting his new standard muffler checked. He got picked up by TP for a non-standard muffler.
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