I have a couple that lives above my apartment and the guy regularly workouts in his apartment. His workouts happen 4-5 times a week sometimes twice a day. Weekdays he’ll do a workout 630am and play electronic music at the same time. Sometimes he’ll workout again 530pm.
I know the sound I’m hearing are the result of dumbells/barbells bouncing on the floor because he’s doing 6 reps and dropping the weights on the last one. He will do a few sets. Workouts last anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.
I’ve tried getting the attention of building management but they don’t seem to want to get involved. When I initially complained, they reached out via email to my neighbor and he responded that he was away on vacation.
As retaliation, for the past week I started blasting music all day (we both work from home) right when he starts he workout. I can hear him scrambling trying to find a way to soundproof the floors. Him and his girlfriend can’t get into bed until I turn off the music. So far I haven’t had any of the other neighbors complain about the music (I hardly see them). I stopped for a couple days to see if he would stop working out, but he was back at it again and I immediately turned on the music again.
For the record, I’ve never seen/met him in person.
If he’s doing workouts at 6 30 AM he must go to bed pretty early. Try and make that part of his schedule a living fucking nightmare.
After talking with him
So while I hate the solution I’ve been given by my management in how to handle these things. You’re going to have to go to the police on this one. There is actually someone who is like a residential officer of some kind, someone who isn’t the one that has to be dealing with more serious crimes other officers have to. I have a card to one of these people.
You’re going to have to build up a case against this person for noise. Record, document, report. Get a few police reports, bring all of this to management and make it so that they can’t ignore it simply.
However, you’ve complicated this because you’ve retaliated. You’ve given this guy something on the table to use against you and now it’s going to be a matter of constructing a timeline and going to have to be a bit more thorough so people can figure out what started first and who started when. But I’m just saying, he has something now against you for the music so you better be up to a lot of bickering and whatnot.
I’ll keep it in mind but the police in my area are known to be lackadaisical
Shame you’ve already blasted music and you are pretty certain he’s feeling it. I would have slipped a note under his door asking him to at least get a mat or something to cushion the weights falling
The weights aren’t falling. He’s bouncing them on each rep and then dropping the weights on the last rep like he’s at the fucking gym
Maybe try talking to him
Agreed. Talk your neighbor like a normal person.
Passive aggressive bull shit alone won’t fix the issue.
Maybe he’s a dick and won’t care. Then you should take it up with management.
Anybody that lives above other people and drops any heavy item on the floor intentionally is a dick, there’s no maybe involved here.
Freeze your pee and slip the piss disc under their door. That’s sure to show them!
Very creative lol
That is an impressively shitty thing to do.
Oh…. rereading – you’re not certain if it’s deadlifting versus just weightlifting. To be clear – deadlifting is impressively shitty - dropping dumbbells is just usual shitty.
It’s both. He deadlifts maybe once or twice a week. The rest sounds like dumbbells. The deadlifts are the loudest and I can tell he’s a big dude because the floor creaks everywhere he walks
If he drops the weights on the floor, he’s a shitty deadlifter.
I rigged a guitar amp to my ceiling in an apartment with noisy neighbors and blasted acid house music that I would make live for them
Neighborly disputes will most likely no be solved by this provocation meets counter provocation strategy. I would strongly suggest you deescalate. So he drops his weights loudly, then you play loud music, then he lights a turd in a paper bag on your doormat, and then you … This won’t end well. You still have to live there and all you’re doing is making a bad situation worse. You’re just retaliating because you feel powerless to stop what’s bugging you. And with this sort of dispute statistics are not on your side in terms of success.
Did you ever talk with him directly? Or put a kindly phrased note under the door?
30-60min twice per day - could you not just hide under some headphones for that time?
It’s at 6:30. Not during the day.
