Tregunter Towers - any complaints?

Hi

I'm considering signing a lease at Tregunter Towers but have seen some complaints on this site about the state of repair, renovation works etc, dating back to a year ago.

Can anyone tell me what the situation is like now and if it's improved? The agent says the renovations will be completed by the end of the year but they were a bit hazy about whether the pool will be open again for this summer.

Thanks a lot!

Check if your neighbour above has wall to wall carpeting. If not, don't move in! Wooden floors are really noisy (you hear everything). I have an American family upstairs in Fortuna Court - despite complaints about their noise during the night & early morning waking us up, their attitude is "tough - we will continue to do what we want without any consideration for you". Even though the landlord amazingly offered to install the carpets for free in the flat above, they still refused. It's not the buildings - it's the quality of the people in them that causes the problems.

That is really selfish behaviour. One man's floor is another man's ceiling. All that the upstairs neighbours have to do is to wear soft-soled slippers in their apartment.



I had a similar problem once when I was living in Kennedy Road.

Scotslady, quite frankly your neighbor is disgraceful. Unfortunately, such people exist, beyond selfish!

I stand to be corrected however, I was told the higher the floor you live on the noisier it is from your upstair neighbours.


The reasoning behind this is as the tower increases in height/number of floors, the actual floor thickness is reduced. The lower floors are carrrying more weight while the higher floors less weight and therefore do not need to be so thick.


The trade off is that the slightly thinner high floors allow the sound to travel to the lower floors easier.

Anybody with a problem like this should firstly try the soft approach. Find some way to meet your upstairs neighbours, strike up a conversation, invite them for a drink. Once you get to know them a bit, that is the time to ask them whether they have any problems with noise. The noise problem could be coming from a higher floor, but if it is not, at least you have opened the conversation about noise in a non-threatening way.


Another idea would be to meet them at the front door when they arrive, give them some house slippers, and explain that you all wear them in the apartment, partly for comfort, partly because it is, after all, an Asian custom (many Asians do not wear street shoes in the house) and finally, it cuts down on the noise. This approach would work a lot better if you also have wooden floors, of course!


Unless they are really difficult people, this should be enough to get their cooperation, especially if you continue to be nice to them whatever happens, and just occasionally mention that the noise still seems to be coming down from the higher floors, and isn't it a bit of a nuisance!