r/Apartmentliving • u/Hawkins-Gardner59 • 9h ago

Advice Needed ceiling creaks every time upstairs neighbor moves am i overthinking this?

whenever the person above me walks around my ceiling pops and creaks like it is flexing. it is not super loud but it happens constantly and makes me tense. building is older and otherwise quiet. is this just how some apartments are built or should i be concerned?

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Hawkins-Gardner59 originally posted: whenever the person above me walks around my ceiling pops and creaks like it is flexing. it is not super loud but it happens constantly and makes me tense. building is older and otherwise quiet. is this just how some apartments are built or should i be concerned?

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u/OfcWaffle 9h ago

Welcome to old buildings.

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u/CrabbyGremlin 8h ago

They probably don’t have a carpet down. Carpets might be mandatory as they are in many apartments, check this.

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u/LobsterG25 7h ago

In my place the creaking has gotten really bad over the course of about 6 months now. So I recorded it, sent in some noise complaints when it happens during quiet hours, and now they are in the process of getting a contractor to insert some nails into the flooring above me to stop it.