Hi all,
Believe me, it all boils down to the kind of neighbours you are staying with. Some of you can have really tolerant neighbours as long as you are sensitive enuff to keep your playing time within a certain time frame, and not past 8pm.
Some of you have really zero tolerance neighbours who would knock on you doors at anything from dropping your things on the floor to jumping up and down, head banging to your fav tune.
When you have this kind of neigbours, no amount of sound proofing can stop them from knocking on your door.
By the way, we can never really soundproof a HDB room enough. The walls are too thin. I dun stay in a condo, so i dun really know how good and thick the walls are. But if i were to press my ears on the walls or floors of my HDB wall, i can very well hear the juicy conversations my neighbours are having. kekeke ..... Thus the saying, Walls have ears .... hehehe
Just for the record, I spend a stupid, painful and virgin $15K to "soundproof" my room that works really well internally, but not enough to stop my neighbour downstairs from knocking on my door. On another occassion, a HDB estate officer visited me, etc ......
My neighbour downstairs complains about my children running around on the floor, chairs being dragged, things being dropped etc .... I was waiting for him to complain about strange floor bangings on the floor or walls and other noises in the master room late at nights.... hahahha
Oh by the way, he complained once i was playing drums in the master room in the middle of the night on of the days. I was like stunned for a moment but i remembered i was indeed finger tapping and wristing knocking on the table for a brief moment. Got carried away by a groove. He complained that his wife could not sleep from that.
Well what can I say. :lol:
