How much do you hear from your neighbours?

caeler

I live in an end of terrace new build and it's quiet. I don't hear a peep from next door neighbours and I really thought I would. I do hear people walking along the path between my house and the next set (we're close together) but thats okay. Slightly annoying when the boys get their skateboards out as that is really noisy.

Humphrey10

I love the place I'm currently renting in terms of noise, just the stairs and bathroom are attached to the house next door so I don't hear anything!

pigpen

I am the noisy neighbour!

We have about 200 polish guys one side who we hear when they go out front to smoke.
We have maybe 4-5 students the other side so I spoke to when they moved in about me having small children who needed to go to bed at 7pm and if I heard any noise after this time unless they had spoken to me about it first (I am not a complete dragon!) I would be hammering on their door and complaining to their landlord who I have a direct phone number for and see if he liked bein harrassed late at night... I said in return I will try! to keep these quiet until 10/11am on a weekend

I have only ever been and hammered on their door twice over the last 4 years (different lot each year) .. 1 had deafening music on at 10pm.. it was crap music and way too loud. the other time one of the female students was screaming and screeching rather than speaking.. I did tell her she woud be strangled with her own vocal cords if I heard her again..

Sex next door lasted all of 2-3 minutes once in a blue moon.. I can live with that.. lets just say I am not quiet.

Tigsteroonie

We live in a semi, built somewhere between 1940s & 1970s - I honestly don't know when. Next door is a single middle-aged lady, the only noise we hear is her dog who seems to bark at the slightest outside noise; fortunately the walls seem thick and the sound is muffled so it's an annoyance but worth complaining. She wasn't single when we moved in, we heard her (now ex) husband shouting at her and beating her up Her son visits regularly and I can sometimes hear music from his bedroom coming through the wall into Andrew's bedroom. I have no idea what she hears from us, whether she hears Andrew's occasional cries, she's never said.

jackieb

Our last house was a granite terraced house. We were there 14 years and never heard anything from either side, although I was forever apologising as my sons room was up in the loft and they were always playing music. They insisted they never heard anything but I apologised just incase! The only time I ever heard anything was when one of the neighbours got a bad chest infection and I heard her coughing all night. She apologised for that as well. She must've been pretty ill before I heard her.

Now i'm in a detached house and i'm not afraid to make a noise - it's great. I can vacuum after midnight if I wanted, and I can put my washer on late at night. I can sing (badly!) Next door sometimes revs his car in the drive, but that's it. The previous owners son used to sometimes drum in the garage but it wasn't a problem.

ding1981

OH and I lived in a 3rd floor flat in a converted mill for just under a year. The last 3 months were an absolute nightmare. The baby elephants living upstairs - you could hear everything from them having a wee to the television to washing machines.

Neighbours either side were worse. We could hear every single word they said. Parties until 5am on a Monday morning where things were shook off the walls. Also, one of the neighbours had a rota for the women that visited and got jiggy with. On Wednesdays we could hear slapping noises....

So now we live in a lodge in the middle of nowhere. Neighbours are 5 minutes walk away, and the only noise we get is the occasional car/dog walker.

Savvy_Sue

ding1981 wrote: »

On Wednesdays we could hear slapping noises....

massage, surely?

MERFE

my new neighbour could be described as chavy but she seems nice enough and keeps to herself so no real problems with her and the noise isnt too bad. If we dont have the tv on in the evening we can hear the kids running about at around 9ish. She hoovers like every 5 minutes including at midnight once and her hoover is really noisey - I never heard the previous tennants hoover. She has had one boozy night when there was quite alot of loud chatting in 9 months thats not too bad. If you are in the garden though we have heard her swearing at the kids through the window, hope that doesnt happen in the summer when ours are out playing in the back garden.

little_evo

Terraced house here built in the 1970s and no problems at all on one side, however the other is an absolute nightmare. Everything from loud music literally shaking the house to shouting, apparently she doesn't know how to speak in a normal tone of voice. We are moving to a detached house in a matter of weeks! Can't wait!

pinkshoes

1970s semi

The noise is pretty bad due to it having bouncy wooden floor boards rather than concrete downstairs. I can hear chairs being moved, I can often tell you which channel they're watching on tv, and I can hear their (grown up) son thudding up and down the stairs with his flat feet.

I really miss my newbuild flat, and despite having neighbours below and to each side, the insulation was brilliant thus very little noise, even with a baby in the flat below!