Need your help... I live on the first floor in a condominium built in 2001 where both the neighbor's front door and the stairwell entrance are located below our bedroom (a slightly different layout of the house).
Our neighbors have a tendency to slam the doors behind them, and every time they do, there's a loud bang upstairs where both the windows and walls shake considerably. Not very pleasant, to say the least. I'm barely daring to hang anything on the inner walls as we're worried it will fall to the floor.
My question to you is...
HOW is it even possible that there are such powerful vibrations in our apartment? It's like the structure is made of paper. Previously we also lived on the first floor next to the entrance door and didn't hear a sound. That house was built during World War II...
Is there any way to dampen the vibrations? They are two ordinary security doors, nothing heavier.
Of course, I'm going to talk to the neighbor, but the problem is that the entire apartment vibrates even if the doors downstairs are closed more gently, a little less obviously, but still. It's driving me crazy.
Our neighbors have a tendency to slam the doors behind them, and every time they do, there's a loud bang upstairs where both the windows and walls shake considerably. Not very pleasant, to say the least. I'm barely daring to hang anything on the inner walls as we're worried it will fall to the floor.
My question to you is...
HOW is it even possible that there are such powerful vibrations in our apartment? It's like the structure is made of paper. Previously we also lived on the first floor next to the entrance door and didn't hear a sound. That house was built during World War II...
Is there any way to dampen the vibrations? They are two ordinary security doors, nothing heavier.
Of course, I'm going to talk to the neighbor, but the problem is that the entire apartment vibrates even if the doors downstairs are closed more gently, a little less obviously, but still. It's driving me crazy.
The tricky part is that there is a concrete frame between us and the doors downstairs. It goes through the entire floor, so how the heck can it vibrate so much through the concrete? Worth mentioning is that the walls the doors are situated in are NOT concrete. They are probably wood/steel/gypsum, etc.pacman42 said:
It is dead silent and very well insulated between the floors, yet vibrations are very powerfully amplified.S Stockholms said:
Vibrations and impacts propagate very effectively in concrete. I lived on the third floor of a newly built residential building and both heard and felt that the fan for the ventilation was out of balance, it was located in the basement… The technician who was on-site when we finally found the root of the problem said that the reinforcement in the concrete causes issues. For us, it was resolved by hanging up the unit in a special frame with rubber mounts. Unfortunately, I don't think you'll get rid of the sound unless they get doors with soft closing, the question is, are you willing to pay for it?
Interesting... Might have to ask the association to take a look at the structures (however that is done) - and well, it feels like something the association is responsible for if it is indeed a problem with the construction itself.dd88 said:
Heavy security doors can indeed have a lot of force if slammed shut. As a first step, it's probably easiest to talk to the neighbor and ask them to close the door more gently. If they can't, they might be willing to install a door stopper.