How much do you hear from your neighbours?

SnowyOwl_2

I am horrified by how much noise transfers between houses/flats, and realise just how incredibly lucky I am.

Right now I live in a recently constructed town house. One neighbour is a couple and three kids (including their pet teenager). Last summer the teenager would play loudish music on Saturday afternoons while the rest of them were out, but that was just a bit of bass, so nothing to worry about at all. The rest of the time there is nothing, bar the time they were putting in a wooden floor. Since then there hasn't been a peep. Well, except for the garden, but sound insulation in gardens can't be done, right? I sleep in the back bedroom and in summer if they are outside they go back inside and when I turn my light off.

The other side is a newly married couple. There is no noise from them at all - either the insulation between houses is very good, or else they do *it* very quietly.

Previously I lived in a ground floor maisonette in a row of terraced houses. There was no sound at all from either side, but the ugly prat upstairs used to have shouting and screaming fits whilst simultaneously running from room to room. He lived on his own so he was basically shouting at the walls. He was the main reason I moved.

debtfreenow

Tygermoth wrote: »

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

AW!!!!:D Now that's what I call a Happy Ending:T

lilrahi

I live in a 1905s terrace. On the right its empty but on the left we have a family of 7 (I think, I've never really counted the children but sort of know them on sight, they might have a lot more that I've not seen!). When they all come back from school till about 8pm they make an almighty racket. You can hear the running, the shouting, the dad giving them all hell and the lil ones crying. But after about 8pm it goes all quiet so very grateful.

In fact it's probably my kids that make all the noise. DD is a night-time crier even at 15 months and sometimes I worry about their sleep next door because I can definitely hear her 17 month old kicks off. But thankfully they've never said anything and likewise I never say anything to them.

Supernatural

Ugh, noisy neighbours. I live in a first floor flat surrounded on all sides, used to hear the guy next door puking his guts up every morning at 5am without fail, until he drunk himself to death that is. He was also fond of smashing the place up, shouting at himself and the local kids and playing Guns 'n Roses at full blast (it got to the stage where I could tell what track it was by the bass thudding!)

Had some real idiots downstairs who kindly reported me for walking about (I'm so sorry, I'll learn how to hover) and just about everything else they could, enough to make you too scared to put the washing machine on. They moved thank god, I pity their new neighbours.

I'm actually convinced nobody knows how to shut a front door without slamming it so hard it's nearly taken it off it's hinges, if I was caught doing that as a child my father used to give me a clip round the ear... and rightly so!

Abbafan1972

We are in a terraced style house in a block of 4. Luckily we're on the end, so am only joined on 1 side. The house that's joined on, a woman in her 30's or 40's lives by herself and she works shifts, so comes in at funny times. You can hear her going out and coming in, as she always slams the front door.

Other noise though we don't seem to hear anything.

The house on the other side which isn't joined on is empty, the bloke that owns it is supposed to be doing it up. Although he got arrested recently for growing cannabis in there (he got let off with a caution though).

Metranil_Vavin

I used to live in a one bedroomed Victorian flat in a converted house in the next street to where we live now, and the guy upstairs was bonkers and used to regularly decide to walk about in the loft (which was part of his flat), even though there were no boards down.

He consequently would be balancing on the beams, would slip off and put his foot down between them hard and I would be treated to the sight of my living room ceiling cracking and plaster coming down!

I went up there several times as did my partner of the time to explain to him that he was causing damage to our ceiling, not to mention the danger of the silly old bugg3r potentially falling through the ceiling and killing himself! my ex even offered to board out the loft space for him, which he declined.

I was so so glad to move out of there. I absolutely loved the flat, and the other 3 flats of neighbours I got on with really well with, but this guy was just a nightmare.

I'll never forget the sinking feeling as not long after having had my ceiling all replastered and repainted, hearing him banging about in the loft and then watching a fresh crack spread from one side of the ceiling to the other. I went balastic :mad:

I'm still in touch with one of my old neighbours there, and she told me that he is still teetering about in his loft, and also managed to flood their flat out a couple of years ago by leaving the tap running in the kitchen for a number of days!

Abbafan1972

Vavin - I hope you billed him for the repairs every time the ceiling was re-plastered!

loracan1

jaqui59 wrote: »

We used to live next door to a Geordie couple who were both obsessed with the tune "Crocodile Shoes" by Jimmy Nail .... For almost a year they used to play it at full volume at least 6 times a day whilst both singing really loudly at the same time .. First of all it was quite amusing, but it didnt take long for us to stop seeing the funny side!! .. Thankfully for us, the fella decided to leave his wife for another woman and peace and quiet followed, only for her to then have an obsession with Johnny Cash and Ring of Fire :mad:

When I was a kid the next door neighbours had a french chap visit for a couple of months. He played Elton John. Constantly. Over and over and over, that was grim and I've loathed him ever since (Elton).

I'm in a mid-terrace, one side has been empty for the last year (sheer bliss) and before that was a woman on her own. Other side is a single woman with a grown up family. I can tell what tv show she's watching if it's quiet in my house, and her tv is in the opposite corner, so I imagine she can hear my tv (which is against her wall). My kids probably make more noise...but her granddaughter's starting to make a bit of a racket when she's there so it's swings and roundabouts. Never had problems with late night noise

Rachel021967

We live in a 1929 semi-detached with no sound insulation. We can hear everything they do and they can hear everything we do. There is no privacy.
Our last house was a 1970's terrace and we heard very little.

Metranil_Vavin

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

Vavin - I hope you billed him for the repairs every time the ceiling was re-plastered!

I spoke to him about it, but to be honest he was such a nutter it was actually more hassle than it was worth.

My partner at the time repaired the ceiling and I sold up not long afterwards!

I am so so happy not to have anyone living above me now!