Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Loud new boiler next door
We live next door to a house that seems to be permanently in the midst of a refurb - bare unfinished floorboards etc. Landlord doesn't live on site & the bedrooms are inhabited by a revolving cast of young mostly eastern europeans who keep to themselves.
We get on reasonably well (take post for each other etc), and because the dividing walls are nice & thick, & they don't have a thing for houseparties, I never hear them. No radio, no TV, no voices, not even the washing machine on spin or the hoover. I hear the flat upstairs from the moment their alarm goes off, but never next door.
Until now. Recently, around 6am, I've been woken by a sound which I first assumed was a goods train loudly idling in the siding at the end of the garden. When I realised it was coming through the wall I wondered whether the landlord had left them without power & they'd resorted to a generator. It's also quite a lot like an overhead helicopter - a loud, fast whomp-whomp-whomp.
Obviously this is a bit shit, I'd rather be asleep at 6am. I'm pretty sure it's a boiler, based on the times & the fact our bedroom aligns with their kitchen.
My questions are:
a) Has the landlord installed the world's loudest new boiler or is it likely an old one on its last legs?
b) If it's an old one, do I need to worry about it exploding (never heard a boiler make such a racket)
c) In either case do I have any right to complain? It's not hugely decibel loud but it's certainly enough to wake you up and makes your ear drums vibrate unpleasantly once you're conscious.
To be clear, this is a new thing, we've all been here years with no problem.
Talking to the tenants won't do anything, talking to the landlord has never been productive (even after the time he climbed the fence and had a stamp around in our garden cutting bits off a tree without permission while we were out).
If I have any recourse it'll have to be the council & I don't see the point in getting into that if they can't do anything. It could also open up a can of worms because I don't think that place will be a registered HMO & it's probably not in a fit state to be rented out.
Do I just put up with it & start going to bed earlier?
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Permalink Reply by Si on
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This sounds eerily similar to a noise we were hearing in the middle of the night regularly a few weeks back on harringay rd. we asked our upstairs neighbours and they hadn’t heard it and we couldn’t place the exact direction... so we ended up thinking it was something going on with the Piccadilly line below. It has stopped now but we described it as sounding a bit like a helicopter!
Where are you based? If you get to the bottom of it let me know - I’m intrigued to know what it is.
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I only realised it wasn't an idling train when I got naffed off enough to stick my head out of the garden door to check. We are at the Finsbury Park end of Wightman. Maybe it's just the time of year for whatever fault may be causing the noise.
Going to pop a note through the door to let them know they may have an issue- seems entirely feasible we are the only people who can hear it through a quirk of layout.
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It's worth checking if the property is on the HMO register https://www.haringey.gov.uk/housing/landlords/multiple-occupants/hm...
At least you can be assured that the property has a valid gas-safe certificate (which every HMO is required to have) and that would at least give you some piece of mind on the possible exploding aspect.
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google 'boiler noise' or something like that and you get stuff
like https://www.bartelsheatingandcooling.com/blog/noises-you-shouldnt-h...
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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If you want to get advice on dealing with unresponsive landlords as neighbours and if you have a right to complain you could try giving Haringey Citizen's Advice a call on their AdviceLine
Adviceline: 0300 330 1187 (Weekdays 10am-1pm & 2pm-4pm)
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