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For the French who live in an apartment, simple neighborhood noises can sometimes turn in a nightmare. If there are solutions, they are often expensive.
Vacuum cleaner, washing machine late at night or noisy pets: to live in the hearts of cities, you sometimes have to pay the noise. In a building, a resident says he has lived a nightmare for six years due to the sounds of steps of his neighbors. Its noise pollution takes place, but also sometimes “at three in the morning, 4 a.m.“, He testifies, anonymously. Commercial, he says he could no longer work at home. He has initiated legal proceedings.
Noise is one of the main sources of conflict between neighbors: more than half of French people consider these troubles. For noise pollution to be considered as neighborhood disturbance during the day, there are three criteria: noise intensity, its recurrence and the environment (urban or rural area). If the law provides up to 450 euros fine, in fact, the victims are often delivered to themselves.
Near Lyon (Rhône), retirees have opted for a radical solution and posed a phonic insulation on the ceiling: 5,500 euros.
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