The owners of a condo in British Columbia were ordered to replace their hardwood floors with carpeting after a Civil Resolution Tribunal determined they breached nuisance laws with noises their downstairs neighbor said were excessive, according to Straight.com.
The owners of the upstairs condo had moved in after hardwood flooring had already been installed in the unit. The downstairs neighbor, Derek Pope, said the excessive noise did not begin until the family moved in. It was later found that the flooring did not meet the minimum requirement for noise insulation, according to the report.
Pope’s complaint stated there were “loud bangs in the evening, extremely disturbing crashes, and other identified noises,” including sounds as if a “100-kilogram man had jumped from counter height.”
Along with replacing the hardwood flooring with carpeting at their own expense, the owners of the upstairs condo will pay Pope $13,489 for “general damages for nuisance, reimbursement of sound testing costs, pre-judgement interest, and tribunal fees.”
