How much do you hear from your neighbours?

Noctu

Just wondering how much you hear from your neighbours - especially if you are 'attached' to them (e.g. terrace/semi detached/flat).

Can you hear talking? Shouting? Walking around? Running around? Music? Arguments? etc. Thin walls/thick walls?

fluffnutter

I live in a Victorian terrace. The walls aren't too bad, but I can certainly hear my neighbours on both sides. It really helps if you know and like them; you're far more tolerant of their noise

Seanymph

We hear nothing, but we are now detached - my last victorian house you could hear them talking late at night when it was quiet, and their damned dogs all day But apart from that nothing.

claire16c

I live in a terrace - think it was built in the 70s or 80s, Barratt home. I can only hear things like if someone were to drill in a wall. Once the parents next door went away and their teenage son had a party - we certainly heard that

Other than that, occasionally hear someone go up the stairs on one side, but its very faint and would only be if it was dead quiet in our house, like if Id just got in bed or something.

Its pretty quiet. Never heard any music or shouting etc.

Mupette

I'm in the middle (3) bungalows, one side i hear nothing, the other side i hear the woman and her boyfriend shouting, she is in her 80's a deaf.

sassyblue

I'm not going to be helpful.... we used to live in a semi next to an old lady who was supposedly deaf or selectively deaf, she certainly never missed anything she wanted to hear Living next door to her was a nightmare sometimes, when her favourite programs were on (and there were a few of them) up would go her television volume so high that we could hear her telly more than ours!

We always said when we moved we'd do our damndest to be detached or insulate any adjoining walls with noise insulation.

Thankfully, we are detached and it's bliss.

daisiegg

When we used to live in a Victorian semi, we could hear EVERYTHING. Like, if they had people round in the living room we could hear every word. We could hear their kids crying and playing. We could hear them have sex (and they weren't what you'd call loud). Was glad to move!

Faerie

I live in a flat above an empty shop. Our neighbours are very quiet, every now again I hear raised voices but it's rare. From my bedroom I have heard what sounds like a light switch or plug being switched on or off, I hope I'm wrong because that would mean they can hear everything in our house!

skylight

In a new build terraced town house and its reasonably quiet. I'm a 3 storey with living room 1st floor, on one side the other house is the same but the other side its a 3-bed "proper" house so I have the lads bedroom adjoining my living room. As he's young I have been a nice neighbour and had extentions put in so the TV is on the opposite side of the room so its not on his wall. Will wait and see what happens when he's a teenager! At least we all get on well enough that I can say something.

The only noise really is the stairs. All adjoining walls appear to be thicker that the stairs wall so I think that helps with noise in the rooms. But the stairs in our house back onto the stairs of the other neightbour with the same house and we can hear them elephanting up and down so they must be able to hear us! But once in rooms, you cant hear at all so I assume that as they are thicker there is some sort of sound proofing "stuff" in those few inches less.

duchy

fluffnutter wrote: »

I live in a Victorian terrace. The walls aren't too bad, but I can certainly hear my neighbours on both sides. It really helps if you know and like them; you're far more tolerant of their noise

Aint that the truth.
I'm in a Victorian terrace too-on one side though four families in ten years-no noise at all. On the other side -last two occupants-barely any noise-occassionally would hear the Mum shout at her daughter -or the odd party from the teachers who lived there before. The current occupants......another matter.

Daily routine here is....Screaming, shouting, thuds, crashing , he calls her names you wouldn't believe (although I do think there is more than a grain of truth in them) she screams back, then she'll smash up his stuff-so he retaliates-and and their 4 dogs join in barking. We've had fighting in the streets from them fights when she's blown the rent money on drugs-police are on first name terms with them and given both of them B&B in a cell several times. Oh and although she boasts she'll never bother working (kids already taken off her cos of her drug problem) he does work-leaves at 5am and slams the front door shut-Everyone in the street hates them -and their landlord ...he says "So long as I get my rent" ARGHHHHHH

(Sorry for the rant I feel better now !

Desperado99

We live in an end-terraced (new-build - about 15 years old) and we can hear pretty much everything. It's more noticeable last thing at night/first thing in the morning when we're in bed, you even hear conversations......... the rest of the time I have the telly/radio on so I don't really notice.

I have to say, if I had the choice (or the money ) I would have a detached house.