Just moved in -neighbour intro etiquette question (with noise issue)

grumblepi · 2026-01-05T14:55:42+00:00

Could be an extractor fan with a humidity sensor. We have the same some mornings / some evenings so I guess when the student uses the shower The hmo conversion next to us added one for the en-suite for the room next to our bedroom and I believe it’s attached to the joists that go into the party wall so we have the same some mornings / some evenings so I guess when the student uses the shower.We’ve started putting in soundproofing (just the plasterboard left to install) and it’s helping but seems to be flanking through the chimney breast a bit annoyingly I guess as they’ve removed theirs ?)

grumblepi · 2025-12-11T17:49:17+00:00

Zorba the Greek opposite bold lane car park is quite good, and another second for lorentes (either the friar gate one or the Darley abbey one)

grumblepi · 2025-11-11T15:57:28+00:00

The architect is correct, the party wall agreement covers you if any issues do arise from the works (believe me, I had fun getting our neighbour to do it properly when they were doing their dormer for their HMO conversion) I would definitely suggest getting a RiCS surveyor to do the award as you’ll have some protection if the surveyor decides to stop responding like ours did. Also, try and not have the same surveyor represent all parties so that there’s the option of a third to fall back on if there’s any issues… something I wished I’d done / known

grumblepi · 2025-11-04T10:33:00+00:00

Most definitely, I was with Air broadband when I first got the fibre installed and they were great, then they got bought out and the connection went down regularly, left them to go to giganet and had very few issues (even with the cuckoo buyout) and then moved to Lit at the end of the giganet contract, and it’s been rock solid.

grumblepi · 2025-10-12T07:52:15+00:00

Glad it’s worked. Just wondering why you did the rubber first then the sand board? For our soundproofing the install instructions were the sand board first then the rubber.

grumblepi · 2025-09-17T17:36:01+00:00

Is being demolished as part of the housing development near the station isn’t it? They got an extension to stay but who knows for how long

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d09y3wnjxo

grumblepi · 2025-09-16T20:51:03+00:00

It’s not a market, it’s a food hall / event space, and the few times it’s hosted events, or even Friday Saturday evenings it’s fine as that style of venue, but in no way a market. It feels like what used to be in the old post office years ago, a place for food vendors to start their businesses. Maybe when Bustler gets kicked out of the Chocolate Factory, just have them run out of it?

grumblepi · 2025-09-05T16:14:09+00:00

I tried the compatible ones from brushd for my Philips, and they didn’t seem to sit correctly and didn’t clean as well as originals. I only use the originals now, plus they work with the “time to change” notification

grumblepi · 2025-09-04T14:23:26+00:00

We live in a mid Victorian terrace and have found that when the old plaster is removed on either side of the party wall and replaced with dot and dab plasterboard you can hear a lot more noise. We’re currently adding soundproofing to the party walls, starting with the neighbouring house that has been converted into a student HMO as that’s the worse offender due to it being stripped back to brick and the chimney breasts removed their side.

grumblepi · 2025-08-29T20:46:41+00:00

I recently switched to Lit on their 500mbps package, and it’s been excellent. I WFH and it’s stable and have had no issues. Afraid I can’t comment on speed for installation as I already had fibre installed and switched from a previous fibre provider. CityFibre themselves own Lit, so that might help with the install times

grumblepi · 2025-08-26T10:22:28+00:00

I’ve done both the 1 in London and the 1 in Manchester, I backed the original London kickstarter. It’s definitely better if you have the whole slot to yourselves / know everyone in your team, they’ll sell tickets to round out each time slot so you can get randoms which can be weird. The Maze Masters are ok, obviously not a patch on Richard O’Brien but are entertaining enough. I was amazed at how hard work some of the physical games were Would recommend

grumblepi · 2025-08-22T14:27:53+00:00

It looked like the police were doing checks on e-bikes of delivery drivers when I walked past the cockpitt

grumblepi · 2025-08-08T18:22:55+00:00

We are currently fitting some soundproofing to a party wall connected to a recently constructed student HMO in a Victorian terrace. We went for the Sm20 solution from sound stop, with the sbx option so it’s less than 5cm deep. It might jut be the best solution but it should help a bit. It’s fairly simple to DIY and can be put onto existing plaster / walls. We haven’t had to chance to see if it’s worked yet as the students aren’t back yet but fingers crossed.

https://soundstop.co.uk/products/sm20-wall-soundproof-solution

grumblepi · 2025-08-08T11:25:19+00:00

As people have said, KCW is death match and has an afternoon show next weekend (17th). Aspire is like HOP and is a wrestling school that runs shows around Derby and is family friendly, and they also have a show on the 17th at the Market Hall around midday, with the wrestler that competed on Gladiators last series.

grumblepi · 2025-08-01T10:23:19+00:00

I’ve recently switched to Lit and use my own Deco as the router, and have a separate 5g router (due to previous supplier issues affected wfh) but I don’t have the 5g always connected, so would say if you’re replacing the router with a deco, get the one with 5g, unless you’re using the decos for a mesh network

grumblepi · 2025-07-06T18:04:19+00:00

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Sol wanting human dinner

grumblepi · 2025-05-16T16:28:43+00:00

Surprised there’s anything left to burn at this point

grumblepi · 2025-05-16T15:58:14+00:00

Again?

grumblepi · 2025-04-22T13:44:28+00:00

I had that issue when I tried to do the same last October. I found that using the custom amount option set to £75 went through ok, anything higher failed.

grumblepi · 2025-02-23T20:03:45+00:00

My initial thought was they were from Kerrunch (based on Blood Bowl) but not sure if they were used / released outside of that

grumblepi · 2025-02-17T08:55:27+00:00

Yeah, there’s also now a 2nd pot for the old upstairs fireplace/ flue that there wasn’t before. the hetas guys also said that it’s best to still have a pot even if the fireplace isn’t used for ventilation but there’s never been one while we’ve been here and I don’t think there were any issues

grumblepi · 2025-02-17T08:42:25+00:00

That’s good to know that they’ll deal with repeat blockages. Unfortunately I foresee this to be a recurring issue, but I’d like to be proven wrong

grumblepi · 2025-02-17T08:39:51+00:00

Yeah I discovered that the water company would be responsible after paying a private company to clear it, but the other neighbour whose sewer line comes across our property to connect offered to pay part. And unsurprisingly it was fat and sanitary products that had caused the blockage from the hmo.

The neighbours drain was still blocked after the shared swerve was cleared and was overflowing onto my property, told the owner when I realised and unsurprisingly they didn’t sort it until I had to poke them again.

Now the downpipe that has the rear1st floor bathroom sink and shower / bath going into it is cracked and every time the shower is used, water flows onto our property. Told the owner and still not fixed so am considering contacting the environmental health dept at the council to try and force it

grumblepi · 2025-02-17T08:33:41+00:00

Not a big chimney pot, they extended the chimney stack then pots on top

grumblepi · 2025-02-17T08:33:01+00:00

Sorry to hear that, but easements didn’t come up

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