Buying treadmill for a 3rd floor apartment?

TheXCrunner wrote:

I want to buy a treadmill but I live in an apartment and I also live upstairs. I know the treadmill will cause some noise but I am just worried about getting complaints from the people downstairs or the landlord.

Any thoughts guys? should I buy the treadmill or just get a gym membership?

I'd go with the gym membership. Might as well lift some to help with your training too

TheXCrunner wrote:

I want to buy a treadmill but I live in an apartment and I also live upstairs. I know the treadmill will cause some noise but I am just worried about getting complaints from the people downstairs or the landlord.

Any thoughts guys? should I buy the treadmill or just get a gym membership?

The odds of this not being incredibly annoying to the people below you is about zero. Get the gym membership or move to the ground level

Gym membership. You can probably get one for much cheaper than a suitable treadmill. Your health insurance carrier may even have gym membership subsidies.

Quite awhile ago, I lived below someone with a treadmill. Don't do it, join a gym.

I live in a condo with a downstairs neighbor and have been wondering about getting a treadmill also - same situation.

I'm guessing there's no magic bullet treadmill that somehow can be ran on typically ~ 7 minutes pace and not be loud as hell for the people underneath me, but would LOVE to hear if such a contraption does exist.

Gyms are not going to be an option for me for a long time, as I live in DC and my husband has an underlying health condition that prevents me from being able to risk COVID infection.

If the floor is concrete, put a bunch of vibration-absorbing material under it, like sorbothane, or a high damping factor underlayment, usually asphaltic.

If it is a wooden floor structure, buy a gym membership.

Just be light on your feet! haha.

You and Greg have a lot in common! Including super human strength. He's gonna carry a piano into his apt. and you're going to get a treadmill to the 3rd floor. And I have trouble getting the lid off a pickle jar.

kmaclam wrote:

You and Greg have a lot in common! Including super human strength. He's gonna carry a piano into his apt. and you're going to get a treadmill to the 3rd floor. And I have trouble getting the lid off a pickle jar.

Don't sell yourself short. A treadmill can be disassembled. A pickle jar, however, is an entirely different beast.

Considerate neighbor wrote:

kmaclam wrote:

You and Greg have a lot in common! Including super human strength. He's gonna carry a piano into his apt. and you're going to get a treadmill to the 3rd floor. And I have trouble getting the lid off a pickle jar.

Don't sell yourself short. A treadmill can be disassembled. A pickle jar, however, is an entirely different beast.

Sure it can be disassembled! But then what? Reassemble? .....Not. I'd have better luck with that jar.