Okay, so I live in an apartment and there is a unit below me. For the last week there has been some heavy construction going on down there. It's making me extremely curious and I've explored a few theories, but to be honest I'm completely baffled. Why? Because yesterday they were replacing the sub-floor. Huge sheets of plywood were being cut and there was all kinds of pounding in what sounded like the bathroom area.
Okay, these are the things I do know:
- We filed a noise complaint due to some extreme thumping and bumping beginning at 9 AM coming from that apartment. This was two weeks ago. Everything was cool, heard a little bit of noise from the apartment this past Saturday. There was definitely someone living there.
- These apartments are fairly new. We're on a bit of the property that gets a ton of sun on both the front and the back of the building. I've pretty much ruled out mold being the issue.
- Everything in these apartments, save for the sub-floor and drywall, are pre-fab. Due to ADA laws and guidelines, all of the apartments on the first floor are designed to be accessible to the handicapped. I can't see a situation where they need to customize anything.
- There has been no police or EMT presence, therefore homicide/suicide has been ruled out.
I've got nothing. I cannot figure out what these people could have possibly done to destroy this apartment to the point of needing a new sub-floor. It just does not make a single lick of sense to me.
So, Edenites, help me figure this out. Just what exactly did my neighbors do to warrant such renovation?
(We will be asking the leasing office about it to satisfy our burning curiosity. If you're wondering why we're so interested, it's because the girl who lived above us for awhile trashed her apartment so badly, WE had flies in our apartment. Just all of a sudden one day, there were like 30 flies hanging out on the door to the balcony. We searched our place high and low, found nothing. We have central air, so the duct work is interconnected. It was beyond gross. They replaced everything when she moved out - the carpet, the linoleum, and cabinets.)
Okay, these are the things I do know:
- We filed a noise complaint due to some extreme thumping and bumping beginning at 9 AM coming from that apartment. This was two weeks ago. Everything was cool, heard a little bit of noise from the apartment this past Saturday. There was definitely someone living there.
- These apartments are fairly new. We're on a bit of the property that gets a ton of sun on both the front and the back of the building. I've pretty much ruled out mold being the issue.
- Everything in these apartments, save for the sub-floor and drywall, are pre-fab. Due to ADA laws and guidelines, all of the apartments on the first floor are designed to be accessible to the handicapped. I can't see a situation where they need to customize anything.
- There has been no police or EMT presence, therefore homicide/suicide has been ruled out.
I've got nothing. I cannot figure out what these people could have possibly done to destroy this apartment to the point of needing a new sub-floor. It just does not make a single lick of sense to me.
So, Edenites, help me figure this out. Just what exactly did my neighbors do to warrant such renovation?
(We will be asking the leasing office about it to satisfy our burning curiosity. If you're wondering why we're so interested, it's because the girl who lived above us for awhile trashed her apartment so badly, WE had flies in our apartment. Just all of a sudden one day, there were like 30 flies hanging out on the door to the balcony. We searched our place high and low, found nothing. We have central air, so the duct work is interconnected. It was beyond gross. They replaced everything when she moved out - the carpet, the linoleum, and cabinets.)
