How much do you hear from your neighbours?

Luckyred

We live in a detached house.... bliss! We lived in a bigger detached than this one before we decided to downsize now there is just the two of us. We thought about downsizing to a semi but didnt want to risk having noisy neighbours so we just bought a smaller detached. We lived in a semi many years ago and you could hear the neighbours even though they werent particularly noisy.

morganedge

my nearest 'neighbours' are about 5 acres away. They could have the 'red hot chilli peppers' performing in their garden, and im not sure it'd wake me out of a nap, lol...

xoxo_2

Semi-detached here and my neighbour is a nightmare. She seems incapable of speaking, all she does it shout and scream. For hours every day she has the same album on repeat at full volume. Every weekend that she doesn't have her kids she has various boyfriends round and has sex very very loudly all day and night in all rooms in her house so you can't really get away from it. Even bedtimes with her kids are loud screaming/shouting events. :mad:

Callie22

We live in a Vic-wardian terrace and can hear a lot from our neighbours on both sides. One side is a single, older lady, who we hear having rows with her daughter and the rest of the world when she gets a bit tipsy. When we're in the bedroom we can even hear her moving the coathangers in her wardrobes, which must be fitted into the recesses at the sides of the chimney breast. God only knows what she's heard us get up to

Other side is a family that we've nicknamed the Slaters - partly because they have blazing rows that wouldn't be out of place in Albert Square, and partly because whenever any of them leave the house they have to shout 'see ya later', which when they shout it fast sounds like 's'latah'. So, they're the Slaters They are really noisy but it's the smoking that's worse, we don't smoke but often our house, especially the bedroom, really stinks of cigarettes. Horrible when the smell gets really strong first thing in the morning. They also really stomp everywhere, and I'm amazed that they've got any doors left the way they slam them.

thegirlintheattic

I live in a terrace. Can only hear DIY from one of the houses, mostly it's very quiet. I can occasionally hear doors, walking and mobile phones late at night.

The main noise comes from the young family across the road - running right by our front door, screaming, shouting, swearing (parents and children), air soft things being shot across at the walls, kids climbing on roofs, fences and sheds. It drives me mad sometimes. Worse was the parents having a massive slanging match with the living room windows wide open late one night, whilst the three kids ran in and out the house.

Tirian

Victorian terrace, two kids under 5 on one side, and two kids under 7 and a one year old dog on the other side. I thought it'd be a veritable carnival when we moved in, but actually we hear barely a thing!

Although the guy on one side is a furniture maker, and sometimes when he works at home we do hear the hammering etc. A bit annoying if it wakes our baby, but that's life (and it's his livelihood!).

The best thing is that both sides are absolutely lovely people We've had all the kids round to play with my wife's old doll's house, and to make a giant foam dinosaur that my nephews got me for Christmas.

They both bought us Christmas presents - and we only moved in in mid-September, so we felt very spoilt indeed (and a little bit guilty because we only sent them cards!!)

That said, there's always a caveat ... we did get woken at 2am by two of the neighbours across the road having a drunken fight with eachother in the street. Fortunately that was only the once, and we've barely seen them apart from that ...

jojo_2012_2

I live in a 1960s end of terrace house. I can only hear my neighbours if my tv is off and theirs is on, even then only just. In the summer I can hear more if their window is open, they like a drink and a sing song but CANNOT sing.

On the other hand they have commented that they can hear me shagging.....go me!

milliebear00001

Victorian stone-built terrace. I hear nothing except the occasional bass very faintly from his daughter's teenage parties! I asked my other neighbour if he could hear my kids screeching. He said no, but perhaps he was just being polite!

yvonne13_2

For some reason I don't hear any noise from my neighbours except the dogs barking when their parents come home around 6pm.

When I used to sleep in the front bedroom I used to hear the hoovers at 7am on a Sunday from both sides so sleep in the back room now.

debtfreenow

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.