AmigoArtistico
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I have a problem.
My neighbor, illegally, without notice or permission, during 5 weeks and despite my continued protests, "reconstructed" the common wall between her apartment and mine, replacing the hollow bricks with cement, and then installing all new kitchen appliances. It's a long, terrible story (I even have video of when the worker smashed his way all the way through the wall, and was looking at me through the hole. Her worker caused lots of damage to my side of the wall and never fixed it, but that's not even my main problem.)
During the 8 years before she did this (about 2 years ago), I never heard a sound from her apartment. Now, all day long, I hear every sound from her kitchen as if it were in my living room. It has been slowly and steadily driving me mad. The sounds are loud enough to wake me up and to interfere with television and music. I've begun slamming the wall with a stick and screaming through the wall, but this is really just venting, since there is no practical way for her to fix the problem she's created, even if she were willing to do so (which she never would be).
A lawyer has advised me that even though it was illegal, there's probably nothing I can do now to get her to undo what she's done.
So I've been investigating noise reducing wall construction from my side, and I've discovered that there are a number of options (the best of which, of course, requires a product unavailable in Argentina, and too costly to import under the current rules, i.e. more than US$25).
I've had seven contractors work in my apartment since I've lived here, most of them many years ago now, because all but one of them left a new problem at least equal to the one that they were there to solve.
So I'm looking for some recommendations for trustworthy contractors to reconstruct my side of the wall with noise reducing materials. They'll probably have to use drywall instead of the existing plaster, so they'll need experience with that, also.
If someone can recommend someone trustworthy within my budget, I may take a chance and go forward with this now. Otherwise, I may wait to see what happens with the new government, and to see if we can actually begin to receive products from outside Argentina again, and in that case I'll repost this at that time.
But I'm getting really tired of getting to sleep at night by contemplating ways to get revenge on this woman.
Please, any and all productive suggestions and trustworthy recommendations are welcomed and encouraged.
Thanks.
My neighbor, illegally, without notice or permission, during 5 weeks and despite my continued protests, "reconstructed" the common wall between her apartment and mine, replacing the hollow bricks with cement, and then installing all new kitchen appliances. It's a long, terrible story (I even have video of when the worker smashed his way all the way through the wall, and was looking at me through the hole. Her worker caused lots of damage to my side of the wall and never fixed it, but that's not even my main problem.)
During the 8 years before she did this (about 2 years ago), I never heard a sound from her apartment. Now, all day long, I hear every sound from her kitchen as if it were in my living room. It has been slowly and steadily driving me mad. The sounds are loud enough to wake me up and to interfere with television and music. I've begun slamming the wall with a stick and screaming through the wall, but this is really just venting, since there is no practical way for her to fix the problem she's created, even if she were willing to do so (which she never would be).
A lawyer has advised me that even though it was illegal, there's probably nothing I can do now to get her to undo what she's done.
So I've been investigating noise reducing wall construction from my side, and I've discovered that there are a number of options (the best of which, of course, requires a product unavailable in Argentina, and too costly to import under the current rules, i.e. more than US$25).
I've had seven contractors work in my apartment since I've lived here, most of them many years ago now, because all but one of them left a new problem at least equal to the one that they were there to solve.
So I'm looking for some recommendations for trustworthy contractors to reconstruct my side of the wall with noise reducing materials. They'll probably have to use drywall instead of the existing plaster, so they'll need experience with that, also.
If someone can recommend someone trustworthy within my budget, I may take a chance and go forward with this now. Otherwise, I may wait to see what happens with the new government, and to see if we can actually begin to receive products from outside Argentina again, and in that case I'll repost this at that time.
But I'm getting really tired of getting to sleep at night by contemplating ways to get revenge on this woman.
Please, any and all productive suggestions and trustworthy recommendations are welcomed and encouraged.
Thanks.
