1930s Semi - Are they noisy to live in?

Hippychick

I think it depends on which rooms are adjoining. I live in a 1960's semi and my neighbour has 4 dogs.

I hardly ever hear her because our stairs, hall and landing are adjoining not the lounge and upstairs it is the bathroom and the smallest bedroom which are adjoining so our main living areas, lounge, kitchen and master bedroom are actually separated by more than one wall IYSWIM.

Steel_2

I live in a 1950s semi, so a little older than what you are asking about, but they are built pretty much the same way in the same style.

Our neighbours are lovely people with three children 7, 8 and about 15

We hear them if they have music on very loudly, we hear the children fighting, we hear the dog occasionally, we hear them cheer if liverpool score a goal and also when the mother loses the plot and yells blue murder at the two youngster for not going upstairs to their bath. I hear them when they're screaming abuse at one another. I can hear their microwave ping and hum, and them open and close cabinet doors (or should I say the kids slam the cabinet doors). For a while we used to hear the tumble dryer several times a day everyday reverberating against the wall in quite an odd irritating way, until the hubby was in our living room one day chatting about our fireplace and heard it himself. We never heard it again after that.

However, I've no doubt they hear my microwave ping, me yell at the cats for scratching the curtains, me smack my iron pans around on the range, me play my music in the kitchen, me riddle my grate last thing at night and all the noise when we have friends over until 1am. We also have a fondness for drilling holes in walls on Sunday mornings.

It works both ways.

But they are fab neighbours and go out of their way to help us anyway they can. So we forgive them.

And it's better than where we came from. We moved from a new build terrace and I'm not joking, I used to be awake at night listening to my neighbour fart in bed after he'd come back from the pub. I was so embarrassed at the thought he might hear me I spent my time while I lived there perfecting the art of the silent but deadly.

opinions4u

Steel wrote: »

And it's better than where we came from. We moved from a new build terrace and I'm not joking, I used to be awake at night listening to my neighbour fart in bed after he'd come back from the pub. I was so embarrassed at the thought he might hear me I spent my time while I lived there perfecting the art of the silent but deadly.

When the smells permeate the walls, you know they're thin!

Coveredinbees!!!!

We hear things from next door our favourites are the scraping the rust hook up the wall noise and the strangling the chicken noise. No idea what they really are.

ukcarper

I've lived in an 80s semi, 70s semi and terraced, and 30s semi the worst was 70s. I now live in a detached much better but much more expensive.

savemoney

I live in a 1920ish semi and can hear my neighbours tv on when its quiet, I think they do have it on quiet loud though as she told me she is slightly deaf and daft

I can also hear the phone on occasions but certainly not loud

Its no more noisy then our last house a Victorian terraced

Seamonster_2

Steel wrote: »

we hear them cheer if liverpool score a goal

Bet you've enjoyed the peace and quiet this season, then.

fraser

you will almost certainly have some noise esp with kids that age next door

i know that we would never live in a terraced or semi due to having noisy neighbours in the past so for us we would very worried about a house with previous noise disagreements

at least you know abouit it prior to purchase, many have a shock when they move in