Noise in Townhouses?

beccad

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Has a post been deleted? Who's being a snob?

carefullycautious wrote: »

I think they are referring to me as I was the first to answer.

No Im not a snob just that when we viewed one some years ago I did not like the layout, in that, all I would be doing all day is walking up/down stairs to get to kitchen on GF and lounge leading to garden on first floor and up another flight to get to bedrooms. PHew makes me tired just thinking about it especially with small children to keep an eye on

I have also noticed that after some years they do start to look old/scruffy
Just dont like the look or layout. Nothing snobby about it I would rather put up with some noise from a terrace,semi.

Have you had a name change Different person quoted as being a snob

TighterThanTwoCoatsOfPain

+1 for old houses having crap walls!!

My old 1870s house had such !!!!!y walls you could hear people breath heavily!

sarah_elton

tizhimi wrote: »

Goodness me what snobs! "climbing all those stairs" - lol - what's wrong - will your hip fall out of its socket?!

No, it'd be fine while it's just OH and I, in fact it'd suit us down to the ground at the moment. I'm talking about a few years down the line when there's babies and toddlers in tow, and we'll be getting them up and down extra stairs all the time.

I can't help but notice that every townhouse I've seen for sale was bought around five years ago (not surprising since they've only been so popular with builders in recent times). But there is baby or toddler stuff in all of them. Which suggests that in many cases its couples who have bought them and are selling them pretty early into family life.

gemstars

OH and I have just bought a 1979 townhouse and we absolutely LOVE it! Haven't heard any noise at all from next door, I think there's a couple, a teenage son and a staffy living there and we don't hear a peep.

BexInLondon

We live in a new-build flat and we literally wouldn't know our neighbours existed if we didn't occasionally chat to them in the lift. As someone else said, some new-builds have excellent sound-proofing.

barnaby-bear

sarah_elton wrote: »

So, we're after a detached family home (currently just fiance and I, plans to expand ). And have been registered with agents for several months now with no joy (the areas we're looking in are mostly modern builds). What is this obsession with building townhouses? Well, I suppose that's obvious - why fit 5 houses onto a piece of land when you can fit 15?

Anyway, I'm wondering whether we should at least give consideration to a townhouse. BUT, my big concern is noise. The ones we'd look at would be 5-10 years old I believe.

How have people found them? How much noise do you get from your neighbours? I always said I'd only have a semi if it was more than 100 years old since the walls were so good you can't hear anything.

We're looking for a family home. I don't want to have extra stress in the future because the baby's 3am screaming has me worried about waking the neighbours.

Also wondering if a house on three levels is practical with young kids?

A 4 bed house without a loft is essentially a 3-bed house with a very nice loft.... unless you are the fairy of declutter and don't use your garage for car/bikes/rabbit hutches a decent loft for old papers/christmas trees/ suitacases/old toys/winter duvets/cr&p is a must for keeping some kind of sanity in the real bit of the house.....

barnaby-bear

tizhimi wrote: »

Goodness me what snobs! "climbing all those stairs" - lol - what's wrong - will your hip fall out of its socket?!

Not so much the parents but possibly a concern if there are older grandparents likely to visit but more tricky can be toddlers and toilet or parental comfort hunting.... depends if the tiddlers are "wanderers" - remembering to leave landing/stair lights on - how good they are with stairs and disoriented in the night.... in a normal house you can stick a stairgate at the top of the stairs and it's one floor wandering issue.... if you have the kids on a different floor to the parents you might have problems or want a layout that means you can reduce it to a one floor issue.

Pssst

I have suffered noise from neighbours to the point where i actively wanted to kill them. I would recommend that you dont buy a "town" house of any description if you can possibly avoid it. Next best thing would be an end terrace or a semi but detached (pref older) is best. Many modern houses are poorly constructed,over priced rubbish and they will not stand the test of time like older terraces do. They are a modern blight and one of the causes of the housing problems we currently have.

John Prescott,thief and criminal,also has a hand in it with his iniquitous pathfinder scheme in which people are thrown out of their homes,piad a pittance and the land sold to developers to build.....modern shoes boxes and flats..opps sorry,,,apartments.

sarah_elton

barnaby - all houses we're looking at have both a loft and a garage. We've filled the loft in our 2 bed flat lol.

This is the detached house in question:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23399329.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E64214&pageNumber=2&fromSummary=true&backToListURL=%2Fproperty-for-sale%2Ffind.html%3FlocationIdentifier%3DREGION%255E64214%26index%3D10

We will never see a better location or garden in the village. Just not sure I can make myself love the house... I've never found that age/style of house jumps out at me.

Might be back to the waiting game, but nothing has come on in this area for weeks. *sigh*

The townhouse in question is this one:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-25384385.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E64214&pageNumber=2&fromSummary=true&backToListURL=%2Fproperty-for-sale%2Ffind.html%3FlocationIdentifier%3DREGION%255E64214%26index%3D10

I want those rooms and dimensions (squarer rooms), in the detached house. :rolleyes:

Both houses have been on the market the best part of 18 months. Both are priced at around what the owners paid for them (coincedentally, both purchased in 2004). Our feel is both are over-priced, so may all be a non-starter if the owners won't drop their price.

Raggie

Hi Sarah...

We are just about to complete on a town house down the road from you... so will know about the noise issues if you want to wait a few months...lol...

whichever you choose both seem good value for the location.. (compared to what we are paying anyway)... good luck with choosing..

Rags