How much do you hear from your neighbours?

bacardi66

I used to live in a new build terrace and the noise was a nightmare - I could watch Eastenders with my tv on mute and listen to the sound from next door as they used to have their telly on so loud!

*Chattie*

debtfreenow wrote: »

Victorian terrace house here and I do hear noise sometimes from both sides:(

I chose a Victorian one (rather than a modern one) in the first place partly because I'd heard about modern houses having wafer-thin walls and was looking forward to not hearing neighbours' noise any more when I moved in (from rented accommodation).

Got that wrong then:( I was surprised/horrified to find out that Victorian terrace houses are also bad "noise transmitters".:mad:

Was able to "handle" it for the first few years (ie the length of time I expected to stay here before moving "up the ladder"). It bothers me a lot more than it used to these days, because I'm still here and wondering if I will ever be able to move "up" to a detached house:( . I had thought I would be living in a silent house by now:cool:

I am having to sleep in the guest bedroom, as noise from the neighbour one side regularly comes through into my own bedroom. Makes for a bit of a "messy" upstairs, as I have to use my bedroom as a study & dressing room and the guest bedroom for sleeping in. So, I don't actually have the guest bedroom I should be able to have because of this and any guests have to sleep on a foldout chair in the dining room.

I do often wonder just why housebuilders (of all eras) think it's acceptable for people to have neighbours' noise coming into their home on the one hand and not feel they have "privacy" themselves (ie wondering what noise might be going through inadvertently into neighbours' homes) on the other hand.

its such a shame you haven't been able to buy your "forever home" yet mind as you are debtfreenow maybe you will be able to find that "forever home" in Wales was it or Ireland?

euronorris

We live in a loft conversion, with neighbours below us, and to either side of us.

We can't hear anything to the left of us, because that is where this property ends, and the next begins, so we benefit from a sloping roof creating a bigger space between us.

We rarely hear our neighbours below us. Sometimes you can hear them walking up the shared stairs and opening their door, but only if our apartment is very quiet to begin with. Oh, and if they have their music very loud, or have guests, then you can hear some muffled noises but that's all. I hope they can't hear us. We do our best to be considerate, and keep noise level down.

We can't ever hear the lady who lives to the right of us, but I think she can sometimes hear us, as she complained about the noise of the air co machine last summer. But, we managed to fix that, and she was happy with the resolution. Again, we do our best to keep the noise level down, and I can only assume we don't bother her, otherwise she would've brought it to our attention by now (like she did with the air co).

joannaspanner

We live in an old large Victorian house which has been divided into 4 flats

Occasionally at night we hear next doors television, our other neighbours.. well. They are in their 50's I would say, nice people, stop and chat if we see each other etc etc, every so often though they have these almighty rows, you can't actually hear what the wife is saying, but the man literally is foaming at the mouth, calling her lots of really nasty names etc etc, when it happens we sit in our spare room which is next to their living room and have a good old listen!!

As nice as they are 'in public' I do feel uncomfortable when we bump into them as they must know we can hear them??? They keep saying we must pop round for a drink, err I don't think so pal!!!!!

kitschkitty

We live in a 2 bed terrace and hear every flaming noise - doesn't help that we have one set of horrid noisy neighbours (with a bad attitude to boot) too.

Bangton

I live in a mid Victorian terrace. On one side are elderly neighbours whom I hear a fair bit..it's not talking, more the odd creak and their front door opening. Occasionally when their daughter and son stay at Christmas I can also hear their babies crying. It's not really a big deal though.

On the other side is an arch that runs between houses so I hear bins being wheeled past on a Wednesday (which serves as a nice reminder that it's bin day!)

My spare room is above the archway and then attached to my other neighbours bedroom so if I am in the spare room I sometimes hear stomping from her side or her music but much less than the elderly couple.

Wickedkitten

Enough to make me want to vomit into my mouth sometimes. We live in a 70's semi detached and pretty much for the last half the year its ben almost constant arguing with her screaming at him to !!!! off out of her life and her house and him shouting back that she is a !!!!ing moron and an idiot and all sorts. Sometimes it's loud enough fhat it sounds like they are actually in our living room with us.

On the flipside after they have made back up again, its the most godawful !!!!!! style faking it that I think I have seen outside of a Vivid entertainment movie.

tinktinktinkerbell

do we hear noise? oh hell yes!

we even got accused of being the ones making the noise :mad:

we hear walking, dragging furniture (seriously pick it up!!) doors closing, toilet flushing, bathroom light going on and off, drilling, banging etc

Tygermoth

I popped up earlier in the thread worried we were the noisy ones.

Well as I was totaly paranoid I called the Lovely lady from next door round for a cuppa and cake to ask her about the noise.

On arrival she and a cat we are fostering for the RSPCA took to each other like a house on fire. She came round today to advise that shes requested to adopt her.

They took to each other immediately and she joked it will be two old ladies together (Willow has been a long term foster because of her age and a bad limp)

The RSPCA confirmed Willow can go there next weekend. A match made in heaven as Willow needs a house where shes the sole cat with someone who will dote on her.

Yay!

Oh, and shes never heard a peep from us

Yolina

I'm in a flat in a 1990 private purpose-built development and I rarely hear any noise from any of the neighbours (I'm above parts of 2 flats, there's 1 one flat above part of mine and I "share" about half a wall on one side). We don't have particularly good insulation, it's just that people are reasonably careful and respectful Our neat little set of rules clearly sets out that no noise is to be heard that could be a nuisance to your neighbours and people mostly stick to it. In 13 years i've only heard music loud enough to be annoying from another flat twice and in both case a quick word solved things immediately I can occasionally hear some of the front doors but that's mostly because when it's windy around here, if you're not fast enough to gently close the door, the wind will slam it shut for you :rotfl: also sometimes if people are out on the terraces but it's rarely loud enough to be noticeable