Hi,

I've been renting a unit that is attached to another unit for a few months. There appears to be only one layer of brick between me and my neighbour and I can hear her TV, though she claims she doesn't have it up loud, I can also hear their voices (muffled) as well when they speak loud. At night if she doesn't close her bathroom door I can hear take a leak.
This place sadly wasn't designed well for noise pollution in mind, one layer of brick between apartments and high ceilings, so the noise echoes. I just wish I knew this before I rented the place.

My question is, is there something I can place on my walls that can block some of the sound in and out of my unit? Something that doesn't damage the paint work on the bricks would be great. I've searched the net for solutions, but I haven't found much.

Ideally it'd be nice for my landlord to install some proper soundproofing walls, but that's not going to happen, it was hard enough to get my cracked bathroom basin replaced.

Thank you very much for any helpful advice.

 

Welcome to the forums!

Hanging some drapes on the common wall should help to minimize the noise transfer.

 

Yep, hanging something soft was what came to mind for me - everything else I thought of would be permanent and require pre-approval from the landlord

 

Sorry for my ignorance, but how would I go about hanging drapes or similar to the walls without damaging the walls/paintwork?

Thank you very much for your suggestions

 

Well you could get a set of poles for a tennis or volleyball net and string the wire drape hanger between them to hang the drapes from. With a rug under the poles there would be no damage to anything in the room.