How to stop neighbour from hell???
Another episode of neighbour from hell. We are new home owners who just moved in May 2024. Everything was pretty peaceful initially until this consistent knocking started happening two weeks after moving in.
The incessant knocking happens throughout the day. We didn’t really gaf when it happened in the day time or living hours although it is really annoying (9am-10pm), because we’re like fine, do what you want in the day in your home, but dude starts knocking late into the night, and now it’s just happening through the night.
I have recordings of the knocking at 11pm, 12am, 1am, 3am, 4am, 5am, 6am… then it happens again during the day at 9am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 4pm so on so forth. Dude doesn’t sleep????
We went around to check and neighbours told us that the particular neighbour from hell (downstairs) went crazy after his divorce. Some told us he directly uses his fists to bang against the top of the ceiling to stress relief(????). The owners who sold us the unit told us there was knocking 2 years ago, but stopped after they lodged complain to HDB.
We empathise with his tragic life, but can he be tragic and emo without afflicting our lives???? I’m heavily pregnant right now- with the baby kicking and the body aches, it’s bad enough already- the additional knocking just makes me extra fatigued.
We spoke to neighbour from hell directly on two occassions- he lives with two female tenants and he is an old man in his 60s. We told him to please be considerate and stop knocking while people are sleeping. His response: 1) he’s used to knocking his arm against the wall 2) we go down stop him every time he knocks.
HOW HE WANT US TO GO DOWN 3AM TO ASK HIM STFU??? (Also the knocking sounds like hammering)
Anyway, it’s been close to 3 months, I’ve made many recordings of the knockings (timestamped of course), called the police multiple times, called HDB, emailed CMC- NOTHING WORKED. Police basically did nothing, HDB say they will send letter, CMC say the respondent did not respond to mediation so my next step is to file a claim or get lawyers.
SIMI SAI. Why the neighbour so fucked up but we have to go through all this shit and even engage a lawyer??? What is HDB doing in all of this?????
If anyone has got anyway to help, please let me know. I just want to sleep.
UPDATE:
We went down to speak to him again, ‘cause the knocking became louder. This time, one of the tenants opened the door and told us “Yes, it’s the uncle. Even I’m at my limit” before she yelled for the uncle to come out to speak to us and left the house. The uncle spoke to us and kept saying he’s used to it already, showed my husband that he uses his elbows and legs to kick/knock against the wall. Then he say “What you want me to do? I’m already used to it.” My husband replied “Then we how? Why don’t you do this instead.” Then showed him a video of a punching bag and told him maybe get something like that to kick. Uncle just said “Orh” and closed the door on him.
So… definitely not water hammer, it’s confirmed by uncle himself and his tenant that he’s the culprit behind the excessive knocking. We’ll be looking for an affordable punching bag as a gift. Hopefully it’d help. Will update again.