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| ...There's plenty of gotcha's to watch out for...If the noise is within the legal bounds then it would be good to find out what is the source of the noise and then. It might just need some fine-tuning or maintenance - talk with consierge, etc. | |
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Maybe it will not make you feel any better, but something much worse happened to us. We moved to a big, bright flat only to find out a few days later that really disgusting smells of cooking and sewage came through open windows several times per day. At first we thought that it was an accident, then we realised that it was a regular feature of the building.
It turned out that there are ventilation pipes exiting on the roof and we are on the top floor -- amazignly, other neighbours do not have that problem because for some reason the stinking discharge lingers on the roof.
We should have done a better research -- there is a restaurant on the ground floor, so now at least we know that we would never rent a flat where there is a restaurant near.
We complained to the property management company several times. Other neighbours from the top floor did the same. The owner annulled the lease agreement with the restaurant, the restaurant appealed to the tribunal, I was summonned as a witness -- two years later the restaurant is still there but the situation improved -- I guess the owner was required to make some modifications in the ventilation and sewage system.
Check with the concierge if the noise remains and can not be switched off -- perhaps it is not normal and maybe the owner can do something about it.