Noise at home - Case Study
As much as today we have made great technological advances, there are elements that we still can not control. This is the case of the sources of noise that we suffer in our home, such as traffic noise, entertainment, elevators, pressure groups, boilers, air conditioning machines (in summer and now also in winter with the implantation of modern heat pumps) and, above all sources of noise, the one generated by our beloved neighbors stands out.
Who has not endured the neighbor upstairs walking with heels at 07:00 in the morning (lucky she works), or the beloved twins in the third playing with the ride, or washing the neighbors of the second who can not find another time to do your chores at 11:30 pm, just when we want to rest! Not to mention the one produced by a virtuous neighbor, or not so virtuous, of some musical instrument, and that what for some may seem heavenly music to others is noise, that is, an unwanted sound, which comes to annoy us when we want rest at home. The experts in acoustics receive numerous calls from desperate neighbors who find no other way to vent their feelings than by telling what happens to a stranger who at least understands him. And is that the noise produced by the activity or behavior of neighbors is much more frequent than we can imagine.
There are many noise sufferers who politely invite their neighbors to respect, at least, limited hours. But most of the time the neighbors are neither so polite nor so understanding. It is only a matter of putting yourself in the place of the other and understanding that we do not live alone, that we must be aware that the appliances can disturb the neighbor, that 23:00 is not a good time to put the dishwasher and that television with the Dolby Surround system it bothers the neighbor who has to get up early, and that with a carpet in the room where the children play, we would avoid that the neighbors would suffer the impact noise of the toys when they fall to the ground ... There are many ways to be civilized, but there are also many other ways to be a deranged person. The neighbor does not only have the option of staying put: we must ensure that in our home the noise is within tolerable limits.
In Spain we have an advanced legislation against noise, you just need to know how to apply it. That's when the affected person resorts to acoustic engineering and, in some cases, turns to a specialist noise lawyer. Municipalities, most of the time, hide behind the Horizontal Property Law to avoid having to intervene in noise problems between neighbors.
Because of our extensive experience in these cases, we can say that judges usually give the reason to the neighbor affected by noise, provided that objective evidence is provided (an expert's report by a competent technician), but we can also say that justice is very slow and , for when there is a sentence, the neighbor has already had to resort to anxiolytics, to hospitalization or simply has gone to live in a relative's house, because today it is very difficult to change housing.
Until you have a noise problem you can not understand the magnitude of the problem, not being able to rest in your own home, sleeping with frights, not being able to concentrate on reading, talking quietly on the telephone or just listening to television.
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