Ricky

Agree with mrstella0

You need to speak to the tenant/owner above you. See if you can help them solve the problem as it may be getting on their nerves also.

It may just be loose floorboards that need screewing down. If they have laminate or wooden flooring this would matters more difficult.

If your neighbour are decent human beings, they will understand your problem. If not buy the loudest stereo you can find and play something really annoying at about 3am every morning. They will get the message after a few nights.

Your local authorities environmental health department can offer advice about the problem.

Huckster

Well, a better question would be to ask why your landlord have to pay for something that is neither their fault, nor something they can do anything about?

Certainly, from my own experience this is an irksome problem. In order to fix it, the tenant above's landlord (or them if they are the owners) would have to fix the problem.

Have you spoken to the tenants above? If it's really that bad you could try and get environmental health round to do a noise check, however unless the noise level is above a certain amount of decibels there's very little they can do.

Living in my flat just over 1yr now and things were ok until June this year when the flat above me started having very noisy floorboards. The landlord was told about the problem and I got mixed reaction from him. On one hand he replied giving me permission to try solve the problem myself, when this was not possible and he was informed, he has now resorted to ignoring my emails.

It is now September and the problem is the same, with the tenants above taking no care to reduce noise or movement in the early hours of the morning, resulting in me and partner having sleepless nights.

Can I claim any of my rent back from the landlord and requested to be released from the contract?