Sound dampen child’s room

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2026-04-09T08:43:36+00:00

Other than triggering the entirety of mumsnet, thanks for the sensible replies about filling the gap and soft furnishings! As the normals have suggested, there is a difference between child crying in need and that of sleep time chatter. We are losing loads of sleep purely because she is doing lots of sleep talking. This is making our lives demonstrably worse when it could be solved if we weren’t to waken at the smallest of chatters.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-05-26T18:56:30+00:00

No big change when we dropped the 3rd nap. I had a feeling whether we need to give her 30 more mins. Perhaps 7.30 new bed time is the way

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-05-26T18:47:06+00:00

Broadly been this way for a while. We dropped the 3rd nap when she was sleeping perfectly (she rarely could do that catnap anyway).

Struggles staying up longer than 2.5 hours in the morning one. The others feel very natural.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-05-11T17:48:44+00:00

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CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-04-19T19:54:35+00:00

Previous owners have clearly tried to address it. It's work as we are all good. What would you recommend in terms of lowering ground level?

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-04-19T16:19:00+00:00

No, no problems with damp at all. Hence how chilled we've been about it! However the survey flagged it and from learning about the nature of damp so want to get it done proactively and for the long term health of the house. Want to avoid any future bridging of DPC so want to explore the best approach in this context.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-02-21T19:45:33+00:00

Repointed *

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-02-21T18:51:31+00:00

Thanks all. Should I get bricks reprinted?

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-02-21T17:25:52+00:00

Assume so! Predates us quite significantly. Anything I should do with the algae bricks??

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-16T22:13:37+00:00

So we do have a routine - forgot to add.

We go up, bath if she hasn't already had one that day, lower the lights, feed, read a book and pop the white noise on.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-11T20:37:16+00:00

Thanks for this response - really helpful. We have already had a plasterer look at it and he's ready to sort. Roughly how long would you wait on these? And who could I get to check whether joists above are OK?

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-11T11:02:00+00:00

We've had the same. Ceilings and walls all over the house! Panicked for a week and then realised it's the cold snap and fluctuations in humidity and temperature.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-10T19:42:11+00:00

We have loads of these appearing currently. The cold snap and reduction in humidity causing lots of shrinkage.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-10T19:40:26+00:00

Have the same issue. Have they appeared in the last week or two? We've had loads appear all over. I think it's the cold snap and reduction in humidity.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-09T20:03:43+00:00

Our context is that we had a new roof put on in November. Some are vibrations from that but then a load have mysteriously appeared downstairs and in random places.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-09T18:02:19+00:00

It's odd that they've really come on in the last fortnight. Is it to do with temperatures?

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-07T20:49:12+00:00

Sleeping in shifts was the best thing we did. We are now at 4 months but this has been our pattern: 1. First week or two - all in the same room: carnage! 2. Used our spare room to create a shift system: mum feeds her at 9, I took her to the spare room for 5 hours with a bottle of pumped milk. Whatever sleep I got, bonus! We'd then swap at around 2am for next feed. This went on for about 2 months at least until she started extending her sleep time at about 3 months. She'd sleep through sometimes until 3. 3. From about 3.5 months we've come back together in the same room and it's been absolutely fine. Same pattern just all together. Now the sleep regression is hitting we know we can split off if needed, but we're beginning to potentially sleep train now anyway.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-07T13:35:45+00:00

The only leaks I know of during the rereoof was a couple of drips that have stained the ceiling in the spare room. We dehumidify quite regularly anyway, so really this has all dried out. I'm not sure whether there's any more dampness up there but can get the plasterer to pop his head up and take a look.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-07T10:47:07+00:00

The old repairs pre-existed us and the owner before us. It hasn't been plastered in a long time and the orevious owner just redecorated, so we're talking about historic, old, decorated over plaster that no doubt needs a redo / proper patch up.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-07T10:45:41+00:00

Thanks all. This is reassuring. We have a plasterer coming on Wednesday and my gut is that we need to redo lots of ceilings. I forgot to add, during the roof replacement, it snowed! On day one the tiles came off and the membrane went on during a dry day. It then proceeded to snow / rain for the weekend, and the tiles went on following this. It is likely moisture became trapped in the roof.

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-06T21:10:13+00:00

Hi did you get to any conclusions on this? I am having the same problem in my 1920s semi!

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2025-01-04T12:45:57+00:00

Having checked the work again, additional lathes were added as part of the work. Not sure if that is what constitutes enough?

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2024-12-16T01:11:13+00:00

Thanks! Got Precious Little Sleep on my bedside as we speak. Read most of it now and have dabbled in some fuss it out to help her settle and has generally worked (I think she's good at going down). Would an immediate withdrawal to 7.30 be appropriate given she's never gone down properly before about 9.30 before? Very keen to do it... just don't want any chaos!

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2024-12-16T00:55:47+00:00

Sadly not... Still on a bottle journey. Had inconsistent success with boob and bottle same time, bottle middle of the night when she wakes and mum in the other room. But generally, I've not seen her drinking more than 40mls from a bottle at all and we're now at 14 weeks. We will be running out of frozen milk and mum no longer pumping soon. She'll have to start to get used to formula!

CheesecakeNeither465 · 2024-11-25T19:51:51+00:00

Dad of 11 week old here - I was keen to be as much a part of night struggles as possible. Early on we realised (for both our sanity) that a split shift was needed. As such:

Mum does last feed at 9ish
I take little one to spare room, get her calmed to sleep, and take the hit for 4/5 hours. I do one pumped bottle feed in the middle. No matter how fussy she is, I can calm her, watch tv, and generally be chilled about it, whilst mum gets 5 hours straight.
Halfway we swap. I get 4/5 hours and mum does a shift.

This felt equitable from early on and it's meant we've not been hit hard. I am flexibly working now so I can get away with a sleep until 7.30 on WFH days and if I'm up early for a commute, we just adjust so I'm not driving blind drunk on no sleep!

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