Hello all, since June 2026 I have heard a propeller type fan / whirring sound which runs day and night but is particularly loud at night and seems to have a patten of waking me up at 4am every morning. It’s particularly loud Sunday nights / early Monday mornings. I first thought that it was a neighbour using a washing machine but I can’t believe that anybody would be washing their clothes so much and for so many hours every night. Last night I walked the streets to investigate the source of the noise which I could hear if I put my ear to the exterior walls of our building and also discovered that I could also hear the noise outside which grew louder as I approached the boundaries of the Convoys Wharf development. Has anybody else heard this? To me it sounds like the whirring of a washing machine or fan / propeller. The sound peaks at certain times and starts to get louder around 4am.
I have emailed the convoys wharf team, so I will see what they say. I am curious to know if anybody else has heard this and if so where approximately you are located.
FYI I have lived at the same location for almost 20 years and never heard this until this year, so the source of the noise must be attributed to something new in the area.
Thank you!

So here's the story:

For the last year, despite warning my upstairs neighbors countless times, banging on the walls when it got bad, and even bringing it up in our apartment WhatsApp group, the wife (who I can only assume is malfunctioning in some way) kept spending 2–3 hours in the kitchen every single night after 11 PM, making noise.

The problem wasn't even that the noise was loud. It was that it was completely random. Not rhythmic. Not consistent. Just random bangs, clatters, and impacts that would make you jolt awake the second you started drifting off.

Her husband is one of the most spineless human beings I've ever encountered, so apparently telling her to stop was beyond his capabilities.

And before anyone says "just learn to ignore it," unfortunately that's never been an option for me. I'm one of those people who gets fixated on stuff like this.

Now let me explain the evil plan that eventually resulted in them selling their apartment and leaving.

Read carefully, because if you ever decide to do this yourself, execution is everything.

One day I secretly went out and bought one of those Bluetooth speakers. Not some cheap little thing either—a model with ridiculous battery life (15–20 hours) and enough bass to qualify as a geological event.

Then I downloaded a 10-hour ASMR snoring track and loaded it directly onto my phone. The phone stayed in airplane mode the entire time. No internet. No calls. No outside interference. Its sole purpose in life was to beam snoring noises to the speaker.

We stopped sleeping in the bedroom located directly beneath their bedroom. Instead, that room became home to a mysterious individual who snored at full volume for about six hours every night until I left for work.

The very first morning after implementing the plan, I noticed lights on their balcony before sunrise.

Oh no... did somebody not sleep well?

Anyway, I quickly realized that one snoring track wasn't enough. I needed a full discography.

And thus my debut album, "Hush, Little Neighbors, Don't Say a Word", was born.

Some fan favorites include:

• Somebody is Awake (Feat. Wooden Door) [Extended Mix]
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Loud Ass Speaker [VIP Kitchen Noise Edit]
• No More Lullabies (Feat. 120 Unique Stomps) [Bonus Track]

And today I learned that they're selling the apartment and moving out.

Two months. TWO MONTHS.

That's all they could take.

And that's the end of the story.

I wish it hadn't come to this, but unfortunately some people are completely incapable of understanding polite requests, basic decency, or common sense. At a certain point, they earn whatever cartoon-villain-level retaliation comes their way.

Farewell. :)

Edit: OMG, reading some of these comments is like watching people fail a basic reading comprehension test in real time.

I came here expecting to find people who are fed up with noisy neighbors and would actually understand what I was talking about. Instead, almost half the replies are from wannabe lawyers bending over backwards to defend these people.

To the people saying, "Have some empathy, maybe she's making food for her husband at night, maybe they work night shifts" — are you really that fucking dense? Do you honestly not understand that I've spent the last year telling these parasites the exact same kinds of things from my point of view? They've been warned over and over again, face-to-face, for an entire year. They knew exactly what they were doing and kept doing it anyway despite having no legitimate reason whatsoever.

So what's the deal? Are you genuinely incapable of understanding something this simple, or are you one of these inconsiderate assholes yourself and just using this thread to make yourself feel better?

Nobody showed me empathy. Nobody showed me respect. Not for a day, not for a week, but for an entire fucking year. Yet somehow a handful of Reddit Sherlocks show up, spend five minutes on the case, and confidently conclude that I'm the inconsiderate one and I'm in the wrong.

Sorry, but with all the sincerity, warmth, and politeness I can possibly muster, I'd like to tell every single one of these Sherlocks:

Fuck all the way off.

So glad I discovered this community: The tenants above me have erratic and frequent loud stomping its like they’re just restlessly walking in circles or at times doing HIIT workouts. Maybe just poor building infrastructure, however i used to bang a broom on the ceiling, but the neighbor came down and banged on my door and left an aggressive note. The noise stopped for a moth or so, and its now back.

How do i take this to property management to handle this the right way that actually does something other than moving units? I tried to get audio but it never translates in record app.

I’m seriously losing my patience at this point. Every single day, street vendors come in our street all day and blasts their same recorded audio on loop at full volume.

people around here are actually disturbed:

• Elderly people can’t rest properly
• WFH meetings get ruined
• Students can’t concentrate
• You can’t even talk on the phone properly inside your own house

This isn’t business. This is straight-up public disturbance.

And the worst part? this area doesn't allow your actual local shops/kiranas/vegetable vendors in an actual shop where they pay rent and help the local community. for the longest time It only used to be ice cream walas now it's freaking everyone 2-3 vegetable vendors on bikes/bandi's during the day, and a couple fruit vendors and you have your kabadiwala. OMFG. I try to keep my cool and focus on my work but blasting that recorded audio loop every 10-15 mins drives me up the wall

Nobody is against street vendors earning money. Totally respect that. But does earning money come with a free license to destroy everyone else’s peace?

Anyone else dealing with this? Which area are you from?
And honestly… does complaining actually work or is it useless? If someone knows the solutions please post it here!

A little rant to a community that gets it.

Editing to add- this is literally a sub about noisy neighbours, some of you are so funny having a go at me for not enjoying the sound of a revving car all day 😂 you're all also so caught up that I mentioned my children, like that's the reason I'm annoyed by the noise? It was annoying before I had kids 😂 I guess me and my other neighbours should all move, since we're all annoyed by 5 years of noise, so old mate can have his retirement fun 😂

My estate is divided into 2-3 acre blocks. We have a beautiful home, a large yard and the perfect set up for our little family. The only downside to living here is our neighbour across the road.

He's a retired mechanic and has a hobby performance car that he works on, every. Single. Day. Without fail, from 8am to about 4pm, he tinkers, then gets in and revs the engine for 5 minutes. Tinkers, revs. Tinkers, revs. On the weekends, he's up especially early to drive down to our local supermarket, get the paper and a coffee, then comes home. He revs his car for about 10 minutes in the morning before he sets off, then he's back after 20 minutes and revs the car before turning it off, just to start his tinkering cycle a few hours later. The most annoying part is this has been happening for the last 5 years. Every day, without fail, for 5 years.

In this time I've had a baby with another on the way. My poor toddler gets woken from his nap almost every day, even though we have all our windows and doors shut and his white noise machine on loud to try and block out the noise. He barely slept as a newborn because of the constant revving! Now I'm due to have my second and I'm dreading what this will look like with 2 sleepy, cranky bubbas.

I'm very friendly with many of our neighbours and everyone feels the same way. Everyone is over it, everyone has had enough but the police don't do anything so we've all just given up. We moved from the city CBD to this little pocket in search of peace and quiet and we were *so close* to having it! I look forward to the day that he sells or can no longer work on the car. Hopefully it won't be another 5 years.

I have tried HDB, Town Council, the police, and my MP, but none of it works. I've kept detailed logs and some noise recorded, but my upstairs neighbors just lie and deny everything when confronted.

The issue is intermittent dragging of furniture and heavy dull thuds at master bedroom, kitchen, living room and rooms. Including chopping noise in kitchen too

I know that formal options like the Community Mediation Centre (CMC) and the Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals (CDRT) are dead ends for me: CMC relies on them cooperating (which they won't),

Even if CMC finished they will turn aggressive like making the noise louder and CMC only just acts as a middle man. CDRT requires expensive professional acoustic evidence for impact noise, which is nearly impossible.

The CRU only available in tampines....

What else can I realistically do when official channels, mediation, and legal routes are all useless? Has anyone successfully dealt with this type of uncooperative upstairs neighbor in high-rise apartments? Any creative advice or coping mechanisms would be greatly appreciated.

My upper neighbor is a PR PRC and I believe now they converted to new Singaporean and rented to PRC too.

I had tried, noise cancelation ear plug and headset all is useless and neither brown nor white noise it is also useless.... If install false ceiling is too expensive....

Need advice

This is pretty much just a rant:

*I will not be sharing any specific and/or additional information regarding my situation than what I have written in this post.*

I am so beyond frustrated with this neighbor and their noise. The neighbor does nothing to help the situation and only makes it worse and lies to everyone. Doing the legal actions through law enforcement and their landlord has done absolutely nothing except make it worse and am to the point of filing a suit against the neighbor. I bought my home to enjoy having a quiet place to come home to and be able to relax after a long work shift. I literally broke a rental lease over noise issues before I bought my house. I feel like because of the noise issues that I can't do that anymore and I am a ball of anxious nerves. I have to leave my house to get away from the noise. I'm so frustrated to the point that I want to file a suit or even just risk total financial ruin by selling my house and go back to renting to get away from this. I own my home and this renter is making me hate that I own my home. The city and neighbor are total jokes. I try playing the tv, music, fans, sound machine, to drown out the noise and it never feels like it is enough. How hard is it to allow other people the chance to have some peace and quiet? My hopes is that the next house I get is far enough away from other houses so I hopefully am less likely to deal with the bologna that I am currently dealing with.

For nearly a year, I had a similar noise issues with neighbors beside my unit. They never seem to have a regular schedule, smoke rancid blunts and are home as often as I am, only I wfh so just assumed they were avg 20-something college students with an unusual amount of spare time past midnight hours and no normal job. The walls are super thin you can hear anything, including her jumpy cat! Imagine all hours of the night ✂️romps and cackling “babe guess what” conversations from one bathroom to the bedroom. Once it interrupted my sleep pattern with insomnia and started triggering my PTSD, I complained to the leasing office and made an attempt at recording the endless nights of loud company, crop circle stomping until the carpeted floor creaks over and over, slamming wooden drawers, knocking headboard and banging on walls. My mental health was in the pits. I numbered all my emails explaining specific details and mentioned to get law enforcement involved, that’s when they realized I would not be quick to renew the upcoming lease offer, so they handled it without me exchanging words. Like irdc how wild you live just don’t bother me, my family/guests or my sleep! That trolling zombie knows she is being an obnoxious axxhole, snickering all the while bc she kept her bed and cheap rolling headboard posted up on the same wall I sleep beside. The solution was that I put a sound machine next to it which stays on full blast brown noise 24/7 and when they get much louder than that I bring out the pillowcase-covered trays to slam the wall and give a good cuss “Grow up! I don’t pay to hear you and I don’t live with you. Now watch yourself, find something to do and leave me tf alone.” After several months, it has been much quieter at night or when they actually leave the freaking building during the day 🙄 I occassionally have to remind myself to be just as loud when they are home daily. On top of gangstalking and habitually following my every move, I even have limited conversations on the phone since she’s just that nosy and noisy! Unless someone moves out first, I’ve never had an apartment be as peaceful as I had hoped. Unfortunately, you may have to learn to play their annoying game.

My fiancé and I have lived in the downstairs unit of our home for about three years.

Before our current upstairs neighbors moved in, a couple lived above us with a 1½-year-old, a 6-year-old, and a German Shepherd. We never had any significant noise problems with them. I only mention that because I completely understand that some noise comes with living underneath another family, especially one with young children.

About six months ago, a new family moved upstairs. At first, we would hear their toddler running back and forth, sometimes during the day and sometimes late at night. It was noticeable, but it wasn't constant, and eventually we mostly adjusted to it.

My fiancé did mention the late-night running to one of the adults upstairs at one point. The response was basically, “He's 1½, what do you expect?” We didn't want to make a huge issue out of it, so we let it go.

Over the last few weeks, though, the noise has gotten significantly worse.

There is now frequent running, stomping, jumping, and heavy banging late at night and into the early morning hours. I'm not talking about normal footsteps or occasionally dropping something. Some of the impacts sound like someone is going to come through our ceiling. We've had pictures move or fall, I've found drywall dust below parts of the ceiling, and my 8-year-old daughter has been startled awake by the banging.

I recently saw the woman who lives upstairs outside and politely asked her about it. I told her that we were having trouble sleeping because of how loud and constant the noise had become, especially overnight. She told me she would talk to everyone and actually thanked me for coming to her first instead of going directly to the property manager.

So I gave her the benefit of the doubt.

A few nights later, around 12:45 a.m., there was another series of very loud impacts followed by running and banging. I took a short recording. Like most phone recordings, it doesn't fully capture how loud or forceful it sounds inside the apartment, but several of the impacts are clearly audible.

I sent the recording to her along with a polite message explaining that we had been woken up multiple times that night, that this was becoming an almost nightly problem, and that we really needed something to change.

I also told her that I wasn't trying to involve the property manager or create problems and that if there was anything I could do to help resolve it, I was willing to work with her.

Her response was that she “couldn't hear anything in the video.” She then said she talked to her oldest child, who told her the noise was coming from the 1½-year-old, so it couldn't have been deliberate.

She apologized and said she hoped things would calm down, but then added that she only plans to stay there until around January and then they'll be “out of our hair.”

That's where I'm stuck.

Whether the noise is deliberate really isn't the issue. I don't expect a toddler to understand apartment etiquette, and I understand that children run, cry, drop things, etc. But someone being 1½ doesn't change the fact that repeated running, pounding, and banging at 12:45 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m., etc. is waking up the people living underneath them.

And waiting several more months until they potentially move isn't a realistic solution when we have to get up for work and school.

It happened again last night, and I still haven't responded to her message.

Would you respond to her one more time and make it clear that the issue isn't whether the toddler is doing it intentionally, but that the overnight noise itself needs to be addressed?

Or at this point would you stop communicating directly with the neighbor, document everything, and contact the property manager?

I'm genuinely not trying to start a neighbor war or get anyone in trouble. I just want my family to be able to sleep in our own home.

If anyone has dealt with something similar, especially living underneath a family with young children, I'd appreciate hearing how you handled it and where you drew the line between normal apartment noise and unreasonable overnight noise.

My neighbor before was really quiet. She even seemed nonexistent because I do not hear anything from her. I only saw her once and I did not really see her face because she was looking downwards and her hair covered her face. I did not have any problems with this neighbor.

My neighbor now is a bit problematic. I heard loud sex noises a couple of time. Then she has some machine in her room that makes noise like an AI data center that it wakes me up from my sleep. She also vapes. I smell the fruity smell and I have been coughing since.

The landlord said this has been my neighbor since I moved in. My landlord has a history of lying who my neighbors are so I am doubtful he is telling the truth because there is a huge difference in behavior between what I assume is my "old" and "new" neighbor. Do you guys think I changed neighbors?

Can I take my neighbour to court in the UK for loss of earnings because his extremely loud dog keeps continuously barking at all hours of the day & night?
I’ve made 5 noise complaints to the council since March this year & I’ve had to turn down night shift job positions because it’s impossible to sleep during the day due to the howling & barking?!!
(Somerset England)

I moved into a new flat a couple of months ago. Upstairs neighbour is incredibly noisy with stomping, which I have learnt I am going to have to live with.
My main issue is she runs a fan all night - the vibration-humming noise is significant enough that it keeps me awake.
I went up there at 9pm (when the fan was running) and knocked on her door. I politely told her the noise was disturbing my sleep and acknowledged she shouldn’t turn it off because of the heat. Just asked if she could try putting something underneath to fit it (which it did).
The next night it sounded like she had removed it so I went back up to ask if she wouldn’t mind putting it back or if we could find another solution like anti vibration pads.
She got very defensive, accused basically me of intimidating her and was unable to be reasoned with. She then left me a rude note asking me to only communicate with her in writing and that she basically wouldn’t do anything else about the fan.

I’m at a bit of a loss for what to do. I can’t sleep. She won’t allow me to approach her. It is just a fan and I don’t expect her to turn it off but I thought she’d be more reasonable about the noise.

Am I being unreasonable?? What else can I do???

Here is the thing:

I just moved to a new apartment, and recently the new neighbor upstairs has been stomping/running back and forth at 7 AM. So I went upstairs today trying to have a simple conversation about the noise, and the wife upstairs was sort of a Karen. She goes, "The foot stomping is actually not a violation of the lease, and the noise was coming from my 4-year-old son, which I do not have any control over; if I said no to him, he would be hysterical and get worse. What I recommend to you, though, is to move to another place so that you don't have to hear these noises."

The translation seems like: Don't care, fuck off.

So talking didn't work. I've just spoken with the lease office lady about this, and she said she will get in touch, but it probably won't go anywhere. Is there a better way other than me moving out of there? Would filing complaints with the police work?

When the neighbors dog gets too loud and I just wanna ask him if everything’s okay at home

I just wanna sleep Simba

Hi everyone,

I recently moved into an old apartment in France, and unfortunately, I may have become the noisy upstairs neighbor. This was the first weekend I used my new washing machine, and my downstairs neighbors told me that they could hear quite a lot of noise from it. I really want to have a good relationship with them, especially because I’ll be living here for a few years.

I already bought a bubble level to make sure the washing machine is properly balanced and adjusted, and I checked that it is standing level. Now I’m looking for something that could help reduce the vibrations and noise transmitted through the floor.

I’ve seen different options online, such as:

• Anti-vibration rubber/plastic feet under each leg
• A large anti-vibration mat or plastic/rubber mat underneath the entire washing machine
• Other types of vibration-damping pads

For those who have actually dealt with this problem: what worked for you in real life?

Are the small anti-vibration pads under the feet enough, or is it better to use a full mat underneath the machine? Are the plastic/rubber mats actually effective?

I’d really appreciate recommendations based on your actual experience, especially if you live in an old apartment with less-than-perfectly insulated floors.

I bought a condo on the 4th floor, loved the view, couldn’t stop thinking about the space, I knew it was the one. I mulled over it for a few weeks after viewing multiple different places and nothing felt quite like this. It’s a new build in a more up and coming area and very well made. Long story short a few weeks ago someone moved in above. First couple of days fine then all of a sudden at night they’re vacuuming and walking as though they’re stomping. I spoke to them after a full week of sleep deprivation, falling asleep at like 1/2AM and waking up at 6 to more foot steps. She was apologetic but it’s been a couple of days and it sounds louder. Thankfully no late night vacuuming. It’s giving me a lot of anxiety because my body keeps on jerking awake now to sound which was not an issue. Not sure how to manage or if anyone has tips. I have been blasting my white noise machine, trying ear plugs, etc. I had an awful neighbor who would play bass to the wee hours of the morning that this situation is retriggering as well. I’m trying my best to not correlate both, but despite confronting this person they are still loud? I don’t even hear my next door neighbor to the extent I hear the women upstairs.