{"id":223071,"date":"2023-10-06T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T12:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=223071"},"modified":"2023-10-06T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T12:37:42","slug":"my-neighbours-are-torturing-me-with-the-noise-of-their-wooden-flooring-and-loud-kids-ive-taken-drastic-action-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/world-news\/my-neighbours-are-torturing-me-with-the-noise-of-their-wooden-flooring-and-loud-kids-ive-taken-drastic-action-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"My neighbours are \u2018torturing\u2019 me with the noise of their wooden flooring and loud kids \u2013 I\u2019ve taken drastic action | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
A MILLIONAIRE businessman and his wife say they are tortured by kids who play CRICKET in the flat above.<\/p>\n
Constant crying and footsteps on newly installed wooden floors has made Sergey and Maria Grazhdankin's existence a misery, they say.<\/p>\n
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The pair moved into their \u00a31m-plus fourth floor apartment in a gated art deco development in West Kensington, London, in 2011.<\/p>\n
The Grazhdankins enjoyed peace and quiet in North End House, Fitz-James Avenue, but the wooden floors shattered their tranquillity.<\/p>\n
And they say the behaviour of City banker Medhi Guissi and his wife and family upstairs makes them feel they are in a flatshare.<\/p>\n
Sergey, 42, who runs an insurance services company, is now suing his neighbours over the alleged noise "nuisance" which has cost him \u00a3250,000 in lawyers' bills.<\/p>\n
At Central London County Court, he is asking Judge Tracey Bloom to order the Guissis to tear up their floor and lay it again in a way which eliminates the noise from creaking joists.<\/p>\n But Mr Guissi and his wife, Meriem El Harouchi, are fighting the case, claiming the Grazhdankins cannot complain about everyday sounds of a family in their own home.<\/p>\n They say their neighbours have become oversensitive to the normal day-to-day noise of family life, having lived for many years with only an elderly single lady as a neighbour above them.<\/p>\n The court heard the Giussis bought the apartment above the Grazhdankins for \u00a31.1m in 2018 and began gutting it.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n They tore out walls, changed the layout of the rooms and replaced the carpet with a wooden floor, including a floating acoustic barrier in an attempt to aleviate any noise.<\/p>\n But the Grazhdankins say this was fitted incorrectly, with nails driven through and into joists, against the instructions of the manufacturers.<\/p>\n The "incorrect" installation of the floor resulted in the creaking, they say.<\/p>\n Sergey said the pair are now "woken up daily between 5.30am and 7.30am" by noises, which begin around "7am and 8am" on weekends.<\/p>\n He added: "Walking, banging, jumping sounds, children running and voices, creaking floor, dropping things on the floor, children crying, shouting and voices.<\/p>\n "This is experienced especially between 2pm and 10pm. Living with this every day since we moved is torture."<\/p>\n Sergey said his wife now suffers from stress and insomnia and feels afraid as she tries to sleep.<\/p>\n Following complaints and a previous court hearing, Mr Guissi installed carpets, but the noise is still present and continues to affect the Grazhdankins, he said.<\/p>\n Representing the Giussis, barrister Tom Morris said the Grazhdankins are complaining about sound made by acts of "ordinary residential occupation" of a family home.<\/p>\n The acts "are not done maliciously or with the intention of disturbing the claimant, but reasonably and with proper consideration for the interests of the claimant," he said.<\/p>\n The trial continues.<\/p>\n<\/picture>GARDEN WAR <\/span><\/p>\n
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