I need urgent advice. Someone above me is selling their flat and took up her rugs before she left. She was always in stockinged feet and also hardly ever there - the floor was laid 12 years ago. Now we are subject to horrific noise every time someone (estate agents) walk on the floor and there is vibration. I have asked her to redo the soundproofing - according to the lease she should not even have wood floor, but I am just asking for the soundproofing to be done. She has got the two Directors of the house to sign a letter off in retrospect approving the floor!! They also have wood floors. I am living in misery and no one even checked the disturbance I am suffering. The house builder was in and he was disgusted saying that the soundproofing does not exist, even if it ever did! We only have word for it. The previous owner of my flat did not approve it and never would have done. I have taken advice and I have a clear case of breach of lease with regard the peace and quiet etc. issue, but can anyone tell me if hardwood floors/soundproofing can depreciate. In the meantime a large crack has occurred in my ceiling showing signs of water seepage from one of her radiators. Surely if she had rubber soundproofing which she says she put down, this would not come through? Please help I am at the point of having to hire a laywer at £300 an hour, which I cannot afford! Thanks :cry:
without inspecting the floor to see what was used we cant say if there is sound proofing there or if its installed correct. If the lease agreement says your not allowed wooden floors then i cant see how it is now being allowed? or does the lease say the wood flooring should be installed with a certain sound proofing material used? Also as your in the USA i would suggest asking on a US forum. this forum is U.K based so products and regs will be different.
I am in London. What happened is the 2 Directors of the house, who also both have breached the lease on wood floors signed hers off in retrospect. Neither is qualified to do this with experience of wood flooring (except to own wood floors). I am sure this forms sort of bias, but really my question is can wood floors deterioriate over a period of time (in the US - I have looked at their forums too, their answer is definitely 'yes'.
London? strange your IP shows USA ? or are you posting from US and the property is in London? Anyway, all depends on what system its installed? Is it a fully bonded system? Battens with sound insulation? Floating on acoustic underlay? underlay and bonded? Nailed to joists? nailed over old floorboards? there is a few more methods but these are most common Do you know which of the above install methods was used? Underlays can deteriorate and so can adhesives. Over what time span can depend on a lot of different things. Are you asking if it could of deteriorated over the last 10 years the floors been installed? If so then not unless a poor quality or poor fitting has caused it.
