Restrictive Covenants Applied to a Flat

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Lots of people live in flats, some very nice flats, very often converted from a large house that was once lived in by a large family.
In these flats, sometimes noise can be a problem because they’re not built to the same standard that a modern flat would be with lots of sound proofing.
If you live in a downstairs flat and you’re having a problem with the upstairs neighbours, there may be something you can do about it, but not always.
Usually, in flat conversions like this there’s a covenant in the deeds which says that the people who live in the upstairs flats must carpet the floors.
They can’t put laminate floor down, because laminate floor can be particularly noisy when people go clicking around in heels. However, if the noise that you are exhibiting is just the normal noise of life of people walking around, then perhaps they have carpeted the flat whether there’s a covenant in it or not.
There’s actually nothing that you can do to make the landlord put more soundproofing in. So provided the flat complied with the soundproofing requirements at the time the conversion was done, there’s nothing you can do to get more soundproofing put in.
But do check the lease, because most of these leases do have the provision where the floor has got to be carpeted and if its not being carpeted, you can make the owners of the flat carpet, and you can make the landlord make the owners of the flat carpet it.
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