How much do you hear from your neighbours?

reheat

We live in a pre-war ex-council semi. They both have major screaming fits, at each other and at their small kids. We have (now grown up) kids, and know full well what it's like. But this pair really shout & scream with pure venom, and almost daily he f's and blinds disgusting abuse - real top of his voice ranting - at their little'uns, and she's not much better. No time for them at all. Would love to move into a detached, but negligible chance of affording it. Really despise them. Apart from that ... no problem at all!:(

nobile

daisiegg wrote: »

We could hear them have sex (and they weren't what you'd call loud). Was glad to move!

So they probably heard you also:D

Balgair

I'm feeling very lucky with my current neighbour (I'm in an end terrace house, early 90s or so) - he's clearly got the same laminate flooring downstairs as we do, since you can hear him moving stuff around on it a lot, but otherwise I don't really notice him, unless there's football on - from the timing of the cheers and groans I've gathered he's a Spurs fan lol. Rarely hear anything from him if Spurs aren't on tv though, phew! Get more annoyance from someone in the street behind us who has a dog... which barks for half an hour or so without fail at 5pm every day in the summer, guess that'll be when owner gets home and lets it out then, sigh.

My previous home with my ex though was another matter... HA flat, ground floor, newly built in about 2001. Luckily nicely designed with the stairwell in between the flats so only one room had an adjoining wall, never heard a thing through that wall so assuming those neighbours didn't use that room much. Upstairs was another matter entirely though, either the floors were paper thin or they were all elephants up there. And the people... before we even moved in, we were there decorating one evening and a huge fight broke out, seemed one guy thought another guy was carrying on with his girlfriend or something, and someone got thrown down the stairs a few times (kept going back up). Police got called, but that was hardly a great introduction!

After moving in we rapidly realised that the flat seemed to belong to the girlfriend but boyfriend lived there too, and he was trouble. Always having dodgy "mates" round, lots of people coming in, and going out a few minutes later, various rumours of drug dealing, dodgy smoke smells coming down from above (the builders did too good a job of insulation so in summer you HAD to keep the windows open or boil alive... nice choice when they'd smoke out of their window all the time), people who couldn't operate a doorbell or mobile phone, so would stand outside our living room window and scream up at the window above, no matter the time of day or night - those who could actually use the doorbell would press random bells, again, no matter the time of day or night. Add in parties every weekend, well into the small hours, loud music, thumping bass and what sounded like elephants linedancing over our heads. Arrggh.

After about 18 months and loads of complaints to the HA it suddenly went all quiet; girlfriend was still there but either she'd broken up with boyfriend or he'd ended up in prison, either way it was the last we heard of him, thank goodness. Wasn't bad after that, had somebody in there who had a dog (not allowed by the HA, ho hum), which sounded more like a baby elephant, but could be worse. The people who on moving out decided to disconnect the washing machine without first turning off the water were not appreciated though - luckily HA covered everything but waking up to find water pouring through the kitchen ceiling, and dripping through in two other rooms, was something I do not want to ever repeat. I was delighted to find that where I currently live, a house costs much the same to rent as a flat, since I'd rather avoid flats now after those experiences.

shazza71_2

Bloody nightmare, he`s around 70 and doesnt know what a door handle is for. (he slams everydoor in the house). he decides to make fonecalls anywhere from 10.20pm til 1.20 am and we can hear everyword he says, we recently had external wall insulation and its made things even worse, now every noise echo`s

vegasvisitor

We used to live in 1940s upper quarter villa, and the quality of build wasn't great in that era - we used to hear our neighbour listening to the radio at 1130 each night. Even mentioned her 'TV' to her (which I thought it was) and she went on to tell me it was a story on the radio she liked to listen to when she went to bed We also had terrible water hammer for a while after she got some work done, yet she said she thought it was something we'd got done that caused it, then maybe it was the ones in the other half of the building. To be fair though, I got on really well with the neighbour, and I know it was the build of the house that was the issue and not her. Her grandchildren used to visit sometimes and I then realised how lucky we were that she didn't have kids. We sold the house to a retired couple, she will be glad it wasn't a family.

We now live in a detached bungalow, it's nice to be able to make a noise too without worrying about it!!

DonaldTrumpsHair

Although you must expect some kind of noise with a family, the neighbour next door to us makes so much noise sometimes it is unbearable.

She has three children, the father left them all so you can only imagine the shape they are in psychologically. However this does not stop it being a huge problem for us.

One of the kids thunders up to his bedroom and repeatedly slams the doors and punches the walls? Sometimes it is difficult to know just what is going on. Our walls shake!!

It is disturbing though to hear a mother yelling and screaming obscenities at her kids. You try to have some sympathy but if you have no tv/radio on it is very difficult to think clearly.

We did speak to her once very politely but her response was as if we were dog dirt!

What do you do?

mishmogs

Got to add my bit...

am in a 1970s semi next door was extended by previous owner to be a 4 bed. Current family (3 boys under 8 plus mum and dad) cant speak without shouting and using the obligatory f word as every other word, am sure they are all deaf as I can hear every word and have had my vocabularly extended. They frequently block the drains with nappies and fat (god know about their diet) and another pair of semi's which share their drain (fortunately I dont!) have to ask them to unblock it by letter due to the verbal retorts.

They like to entertain most weekends in the spring/summer/autumn outside and it makes sitting out difficult due to fag pollution, very large bouncy castle with air pump noise, large plunge pool and a bbq. Upwards of 20+ adults and kids so plenty of noise. All this coupled with the problem that the wall/fence between us is their responsiblility and he is a lazy slob and you have a recipe of hell. One of their guests even commented on the state of the wall/fence saying your neighbours must be very forgiving..... strange how the balls which come over all seem to go flat...

Now, one of the kids is learning the trumpet and I can see me moving the telly to be on the party wall and making more use of the sub woofer as I am a bit sick of it.

I think this summer during the weekend, I will need to put my motorbike in the rear garden and reeve the engine up to ensure its running smoothly to test the exhaust and sound quality and also ask OH to compare with his...... :D:D

little_evo

mishmogs wrote: »

Got to add my bit...

am in a 1970s semi next door was extended by previous owner to be a 4 bed. Current family (3 boys under 8 plus mum and dad) cant speak without shouting and using the obligatory f word as every other word, am sure they are all deaf as I can hear every word and have had my vocabularly extended. They frequently block the drains with nappies and fat (god know about their diet) and another pair of semi's which share their drain (fortunately I dont!) have to ask them to unblock it by letter due to the verbal retorts.

They like to entertain most weekends in the spring/summer/autumn outside and it makes sitting out difficult due to fag pollution, very large bouncy castle with air pump noise, large plunge pool and a bbq. Upwards of 20+ adults and kids so plenty of noise. All this coupled with the problem that the wall/fence between us is their responsiblility and he is a lazy slob and you have a recipe of hell. One of their guests even commented on the state of the wall/fence saying your neighbours must be very forgiving..... strange how the balls which come over all seem to go flat...

Now, one of the kids is learning the trumpet and I can see me moving the telly to be on the party wall and making more use of the sub woofer as I am a bit sick of it.

I think this summer during the weekend, I will need to put my motorbike in the rear garden and reeve the engine up to ensure its running smoothly to test the exhaust and sound quality and also ask OH to compare with his...... :D:D

Sounds like our neighbours are related!

xxlouisexx56

Sore subject! We live at the top in a 2nd floor flat, in a block of 6.

The mum and dd underneath us.... The little girl is still running around at 10pm and we hear that as our own girls are quite and in bed for 7:30pm. We also hear the mum having sex with her boyfriend in the early hours of the morning. Nothing like hearing someone's bed hit the radiator to a continuous rhythm

Next door, in and out the door constantly with no regard for anyone else
Well she's pregnant with twins so I hope she isn't expecting people to tip toe around her in the summer!

catch_me_if_you_can

We can sometimes hear next door using the stairs and if their bathroom light goes on. ( 1930's semi and our front doors/hall share the wall) occasionally hear the children playing with cars in the hallway - it's laminate flooring. But apart from that and the washing machine which is in the lean-to we don't hear very much from them at all.

Glad they moved in, as it means our hall is a lot warmer than it was while the house was empty.