If you like sleeping, don't stay in Rootes.

Absolutely seconded! Rootes was my fourth choice and I put down that I wanted to be in a quiet area ): I'm in D block, so the furthest from the SU, but I can still usually hear it; the issues with hearing EVERY SINGLE DOOR SHUT is also very pertinent for me! The biggest problem I have is with my next door neighbour, who is a foreign student and therefore calls his family back home at crazy times in the morning because of the time difference, I suppose. The walls are so thin though that no matter how quietly he takls I can still hear every word! It doesn't help that I have a 15mm gap under my door either, every little noise gets to me |:
Counting the days until I move out!

I understand why you'd be frustrated at people making excessive noise by the way, but seriously a guy and a girl sitting in their room TALKING? What's the issue there?

It's the middle of the night. That's the entire issue. I agree that what they're doing isn't inherently bad, nor are they being supremely selfish, but everyone knows how un-soundproof Rootes is. We've all been told to STFU this term, both in a meeting we all had at the start of term and in a subsequent email recently. He (they) has been talked to before about it and yet they still persist. I know I shouldn't answer the question of 'what is the issue' when that's what the entire ****ing thread is about, but it really frustrates me. Honestly, next year in the house off campus I will finally have peace at night and I'm bloody well looking forward to that.

Thing is I think when it gets to being as extreme as people talking to each other in another room bothering you, it becomes your problem.

I'm a sensitive sleeper, and Rootes has been a bit of a hell for me at night. It's a massive hassle to go to bed at any kind of reasonable time, since the SU will be booming bassy music till like 2am with the noise of hundreds of loud party goers also drifting across to Rootes. Then after this, you'll get the re-arrival of people till about 4am, being sure to make as much noise as possible to let everyone know that they're drunk and HAVING A GREAT TIME. Usually after this it's pretty safe to go to bed, but since the sun rises at 5am you feel a bit dumb going to bed so late.

Rootes suffers not only from being close to the SU noise-wise, but attracts the party-goers which will guarrentee at least one group of people making a big ol' noise at at least one point in the middle of the night and also is not a soundproof building by any means.

Being one of the oldest accommodation blocks on campus, you will hear every door close, every tap being used, every random thud and people stomping up and down stairs and through the corridors. Not to mention people talking inside the building or playing music, that's very much audible no matter where you are too.

I just make this thread now, at 6:30am, as I've been kept up super-late for the second night in a row. Tonight I've had to deal with the usual noise till about 3:30am, but from there on, I've been kept up by people talking in the room below me. I don't know what their deal is with pulling an all nighter with one another, but I've been lying in bed for hours listening to the intonations in their speech, with the occasional loud laugh or random noise.

It's just incredibly frustrating for someone like me who needs a lot of sleep and struggles to get to sleep unless it's silent. Tonight may be an extreme case where I've not been able to sleep at all, but the point still very much stands that I've had a torrid time sleep-wise here and can't wait to be living elsewhere next year. Where I'll be free to sleep whenever I want.

'Bothering me' = keeping me up all night. -_-

Well get sleeping tablets or something. It's not their problem.

It also wouldn't be their problem if they were having a party all night every night..

And I'm the one with bad rep on this forum...

I think if they're partying all night in the block then that's excessive and should be stopped but if you get pissy over some people having a chat past your bedtime then that's your own problem.

Okay, there is NO WAY you aren't trolling. XD I'm dunn.

There is a pub called Kelsey's Bar in Leamington that is in quite a quiet area and you can rent the flats above it. The patronage is quite calm so even on nights out the regulars tend to keep out the standard student population. You should look into it for next year.

Wow, I can't believe I missed your post! Someone feels my pain. X)

Where are you living next year?

I'm a sensitive sleeper, and Rootes has been a bit of a hell for me at night. It's a massive hassle to go to bed at any kind of reasonable time, since the SU will be booming bassy music till like 2am with the noise of hundreds of loud party goers also drifting across to Rootes. Then after this, you'll get the re-arrival of people till about 4am, being sure to make as much noise as possible to let everyone know that they're drunk and HAVING A GREAT TIME. Usually after this it's pretty safe to go to bed, but since the sun rises at 5am you feel a bit dumb going to bed so late.

Rootes suffers not only from being close to the SU noise-wise, but attracts the party-goers which will guarrentee at least one group of people making a big ol' noise at at least one point in the middle of the night and also is not a soundproof building by any means.

Being one of the oldest accommodation blocks on campus, you will hear every door close, every tap being used, every random thud and people stomping up and down stairs and through the corridors. Not to mention people talking inside the building or playing music, that's very much audible no matter where you are too.

I just make this thread now, at 6:30am, as I've been kept up super-late for the second night in a row. Tonight I've had to deal with the usual noise till about 3:30am, but from there on, I've been kept up by people talking in the room below me. I don't know what their deal is with pulling an all nighter with one another, but I've been lying in bed for hours listening to the intonations in their speech, with the occasional loud laugh or random noise.

It's just incredibly frustrating for someone like me who needs a lot of sleep and struggles to get to sleep unless it's silent. Tonight may be an extreme case where I've not been able to sleep at all, but the point still very much stands that I've had a torrid time sleep-wise here and can't wait to be living elsewhere next year. Where I'll be free to sleep whenever I want.

Wanna make out?

Leamington :3 You?

I'd rather just keep stealing your milk

I'm someplace near campus, with a friend who owns a house [and a couple others]. Wasn't the original plan, but the group I'd intended to live with, we didn't really get our acts together and all the good houses near campus we'd wanted were taken. I'm still happy though, this place I'm living next year has an AWESOME KITCHEN :3

does it make you say ROOTES, BLOODY ROOTES!!!!!

Haha nice one! I'm only in a three, in a tiny terrace house, but our kitchen is going to be actually clean and hopefully real cooking will be done! Bliss!

I'm from an 'affluent' part of the country but I'm in Rootes. Myth busted.