Motorcycle noise please HELP
murphy81
17 years ago
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Comments (14)My first concern would be the noise issue. There are municipal statutes regarding the db levels that are unacceptable. While it is their property to do with as they wish, it does not preclude infringements upon your rights. You obviously bought this tract for privacy and solitude but now that is being affected adversely by a neighbor that couldn't care less about what they are going to put you through. I would approach them with your issues FIRST to see how they receptive they are to your concerns. If that doesn't work, get a copy of your local noise ordinance. Send a copy to the neighbor with a note repeating your request to keep the noise down and explaining that you'll be forced to notify the authorities if you don't get results. Be sure to provide details on the problem, including the dates and times of the noise. Almost every community prohibits excessive, unnecessary, and unreasonable noise, and police enforce these laws. To find your municipality's noise rules, look up the local ordinances. Check out: www.statelocalgov.net and www.municode.com. Ordinances designate certain "quiet hours". Many towns also prohibit sustained noise that exceeds a certain decibel level. The decibel limits are set according to the time of day and the neighborhood zoning. When a neighbor complains, police place decibel level monitoring equipment on an estimated property line and take a reading. You can go through small claims court to receive actual and punitive damages. You will have to show that there is excessive and disturbing noise, that the person you are suing is either creating the noise or is the landlord and therefore responsible, the enjoyment of your home is affected and that you have asked the person to stop the noise. To prove your case, use police reports, witnesses, your own testimony, or even a recording. The thing is that they won't be ordered to stop, only fined. To make them cease you will need to go to regular civil court ((I think.) You do realize that those kids are going to be running the go-carts at full throttle from daylight to dark all Summer long! The dust will cover everything outside and inside your home too. Nothing that you plant or erect is going to stop the noise or the dust so I wouldn't go to ANY personal expense because it'll just be a waste of your time and money. Being an evil instigator I did think of a few other things to do...You could always buy a few hogs and put their pen next to the fence. See which is worse, the smell they have to endure from your swine or the noise you have to deal with from their racetrack. You could hang a dozen fish in the sun to dry each week too. Don't you need a port-a-john along that fence so you don't have to run inside? Tell them that you're seriously considering selling a parcel of your property (adjoining theirs) for a municipal solid waste facility or a rendering plant. Chickens, guineas, geese & ducks are nice! :-) Thoughtless and......See MoreNoise from Upstair- HELP
Comments (27)Hi- Some of you clearly have not spent much time in apartments. Normally you hear light walking and the ocassional ruckus when they have a party, which is bearable, especially if they are kind enough to let you know in advance. When you have truly noisy neighbors they ruin your life, you have no privacy nor peace, no ability to think or decompres in your own home. Your TV is overwhelmed by TV or music from upstairs and the base from their music waked you up every morning. It is intolerable. Your ignorant suggestion that everyone in an apartment disturbed by other wear earplugs is ridiculous . . . I can just see my husband, or guest, and our housekeeper all wearing earplus all the time. No normal conversation, no ability to watch tv, etc. Sounds like a good life. As a very long-time apartment resident, I have the followign advice . . . Please carefully check your lease for a "quiet enjoyment" or similar clause that not just requires carpeting, but also entitles you to the landlord's protection from other tannant's misuse. Contrary to some of the posters comments, the laws in many places don't just require some random floor covering but "adequate carpeting or similar noise-reducing materials" � their rugs are not adequate at noise-reduction. If people want to live in a communal place in a manner that significantly disturbs others it is their own responsibility to correct it. I'd call the police and ask them to visit your place, have some friends who visit your apartment and document the noise they hear, and ask the Mgt to come by. Then tell the Mgt SPECIFICALLY what you want -- say either: (1) they give the people upstairs the choice of 14 days to fully carpet with (over foam or similar padding) the place; or (2) tell them to move to another apartment in the building with the understanding that if they get similar complaints from their new neighbors they will be evicted. Tell the landlord that if they can't do this for you, you will have no choice to go to LL-T court -- that you really don't want to, but if you've mamaged for 13 years w/o significant complaint, they can't say you are difficult or unusually sensitive! We live in a NYC Co-op and the people above insisted on not carpeting their apartment b/c they have allergies the are the world's heaviest stompers, are often making noise at 1, 2, 3am, have a hyperactive 4 year-old (not normal child noise) who they allow to play with balls, etc., and run nonstop as early as 6am and as late as 1am, and another child learning to walk using a roller-walker. Also, they like to move the furniture around a lot on the HW floors! They were allowed to wake us up at 1am the night before my brothers wedding with their stomping, but if we call (while their child still is running around at 9pm) they complain we wake up their other child, so we stopped calling. It got so bad my husband started hitting the ceiling with a broomstick when it got to the point we were going to rent a hotel room. We have been living in nonstop hell for 4 years and are moving to another apt in the bvuilding just to get away from them (we own the place so we lost a good mortgage rate and had to pay more for the new place) -- that is how bad it is. We first called up a few times, then asked the doormen to call after they'd swear and yell at us to suck it up. Then after numerous houseguest and visitor, and even my housekeeper (working in NYC apts for 25 years) says they are the worst she's ever heard, we started documenting the noise -- loud bangs, thumps, running literally going on four hours to a non-human degree, etc. We had 6 months of tears, frustration and very detailed documentation and presented the info to the Board - along with the doormen's documentation of the calls. The management finally investigated and immediately insisted they carpet the place with padding. They complained about their allergies, but I have very serious dust and mold allergies and was able to find hypoallergenic carpeting and just vacum regularly and use air-purifiers. It is my problem, not someone elses. The carpeting helped the furniture and the heavy walking, which now is annoying dull thuds, but did nothing for their child who PREFERS running on the HW areas, and they pull up the carpet do let her play with balls, and for the younger one to use her roller/walker. The Board member assigned to our matter when the noise didn't stop just said he sometimes heard the people above he and deals with it -- he doesn't understand we sometimes have 18 hr days of noise -- every single day! The neighbor to the side of them just sound-proofed his own walls with quietrock at great expense, and we were advised that ceiling sound-proofing is significantly less effective than floor sound-proofing. Some people take no personal responsibility for their actions and really should find places to live where they can be on a ground floor! Sorry for the venting, but I totally sympathesize with you and am so sorry you have to live with this. As these people who have never heard it can tell, it make people very irritable and ruins your quality of life . . ....See Morehelp!!! h 4890 bp2 masterchef double oven noise complaints??
Comments (27)Judy -- Fillets up to 3/4" thick. If thicker, they can go up to 22 minutes. I pat them dry, oil a bit, salt, pepper onion powder, garlic powder. When I get fancy I smear with dijon mustard and breadcrumbs. Very thin tomato slices can go under the breadcrumbs if you want. Sometimes I mix a little horseradish into the mustard. Sometimes marinate the fillets in teriyaki. It's a dopey recipe, easy to change and always comes out great. Last time for company I bought salmon, sliced it in portions, pushed it back together and topped it off as one piece with a mixture of minced garlic cooked in some butter with breadcrumbs and minced parsley stirred in (s&P unless breacrumbs are preseasoned). It looked very elegant -- like nearly a side of fish but easy to serve. Autoroast rocks. For chicken, I do it at 400 on autoroast right on the rack with the pan slipped in underneath to catch the drippings. Don't forget to put in the spatter shield. First I pat the outside dry and rub it with oil and seasonings. It comes out crisp all around. I roast it whole or sometimes cut it down the back and roast it flat. 1 hour 10-15 minutes, till leg juices run clear. Chicken breasts can go on rack same way. With bones they should cook in about 20-25 minutes unless very large. I don't change the heat, just cook a bit longer when larger/heavier. First time I used the probe I was doing a rib roast, which I like med-rare. Set the doneness for 135. 20 minutes before it was done it beeped me! I didn't trust it would be done but it was perfect. So now I use probe, a no brainer. They told me to not open the oven at all during cooking so there's no heat loss. Only issue is how long the thing cooked -- that wasn't clear the first time because I was going for the done temperature. So I used a general calculation, as I would have done before and leave things out for a few hours so they are not so cold in center and they cook a bit faster. But with the 20 minutes warning, it felt like I had kitchen help. For large cuts of meat I love the probe. It needs to be fully inserted right in the center. Rotisserie is fabulous but I only use it for guests because it's messy and more than usual clean up. But incredibly delicious chicken. I'm going to try a lamb on a spit thing with it too. I bake bread with great results. Angel cakes. If I use a mix (sometimes when I'm lazy) it comes out right to the minute of the baking directions. It just has a learning curve. I still use my book that came with the oven to figure out which setting when I do something new. I'm getting very addicted to intensive....See MoreHelp with Fisher Paykel gas dryer grinding noise please!
Comments (3)Thank you very much for your help! Here is the only part I ended up needing to replace :) On your advice I began taking the machine apart before buying any parts online. Turns out the problem was a minor tear in the lint filter that allowed dryer sheets to pass the containment filter and continue down to the Blower where they got wedged and lint began to built up. Once the dryer sheets and the lint was removed the dryer ran as new! I used a compressor and a shopvac to remove excess lint all over the unit, and ordered a replacement lint filter. I also cleaned the moisture sensor really well and now the dryer works great! I think the lint filter hole must be common as its right where the lint catcher is removed and if you pushed hard with your fingers you could pop a hole and start a cascading series of lint debris beginning with that one small tear in the fabric...See Moremoonshadow
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