They Knew Kids Lived Upstairs Before Moving In, But The Constant Noise Has Them Second-Guessing Their Whole Apartment Choice
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Apartment living often means tolerating reasonable noise from lives unfolding inches above your ceiling.
What happens when one resident skips conversation and jumps directly to mechanical retaliation?
Rather than approaching the neighbors about their two toddlers, this condo owner bought a device that pounds the ceiling.
This noise dispute is already rattling the foundations.
AITA for using a Ceiling Thumper
I just bought and moved into a new condo.
Unfortunately, I’m on the first floor and the unit above me has two 2-year-old kids.
Yikes, kind of sounds like they should have asked about that ahead of time?
They run like crazy.
Had no idea it would get this annoying.
He didn’t?
Anyway, I haven’t spoken to the condo upstairs about it because what am I going to tell them?
Not to run in their own home?
Well, yes?
I have no leverage here.
They’ll stop maybe once or twice but I can’t continue that.
So I bought a ceiling thumper.
I’ve been using it when I hear noise and it does help.
He tried that before just talking to them?
But what are my other options here?
Move?
Talk to Hoa board about voting on having carpet upstairs?
Should I feel bad about my ceiling thumper?
Uh, yeah. Sounds like he probably should. Let’s see if Reddit agrees.
The comments jumped straight to common sense.
Others shared similar anecdotes.
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And shared a positive perspective.
A few offered advice.
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Things overall ended on a brighter note.
This condo owner’s frustration is understandable, but using a ceiling thumper without attempting one conversation is unnecessarily aggressive.
A polite discussion, rugs, quiet hours, soundproofing, or an HOA request would be better first steps than mechanical retaliation.
He wanted peace and installed a percussion section.
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