noise and landlord

[anon]

hi

just a little advice

i am a student and live in halls - privately owned

recently like for past month the pipes in room have started rattling and it gets really bad - woken up anytime tonight it was 4/5 then 9 o clock and its getting worse- sounds like a pneumatic drill going off.

i have been told it is air in the pipes

but no out of the 6/7 people i have spoken to from management has done anything

i have my exams at the moment and can;t get enought sleep due to waking up so many times in the night so can;t concentrate during day

at the moment i am stressd so much my left should feels like it is gng to dropp off

i know their something about noise and article 6 1998 human rights act or something like that , that says i shouldn;t have to put up with this

can some1 kindly tell me what to do -

if i can get legal help- mind i am a student so nothing expensive

what are my rights do i jus have to suffer a and mess up exams

thanks

[markja]

look for an inline tap that turns the flow down/off. like a stopcock. if you find one see if turning it off slightly stops the noise. make sure you don't turn it off completly and deprive everyone of their water though!

[KARL]

My son is about to move out of halls at the end of his year (name of university supplied on request) and has been very disappointd to say the least (my experience was a very happy one but obviously long ago). His complaints about noisy yobs, having to pay a share of mindless vandalism costs, and also a request to be simply released from his contract, have all fallen on deaf ears. Unhappily, the people who should be the most sympathetic and supportive (the university) are out of the loop because the halls are run as a separate entity. Seems altogether wrong to me, but going into court over this sort of thing does not look a promising prospect because of the burden of proof. Presumably the waterhammer is in the hot/cold tap pipes so you could also try leaving water running slightly somewhere in an attempt to dissipate it. If they complain you are wasting the stuff, tell them to sort the waterhammer and you will turn off the taps.