How much do you hear from your neighbours?

Doom_and_Gloom

Live in a new build (around 5/6 years old) end bungalow so only have the one neighbour attached to us.
We hear them a little. Mostly when their children visit or when they have music at volumes that shouldn't be used at the time it is put on (gone midnight until 2-4am :mad: and so loud it sounds as if we have put music on ourselves :eek:). The hall is next to our bedroom so we hear them leave for work as the doors get shut. Sometimes we hear a vacuum but not that often and on the odd occasion we have heard 'non pg cert' noises .
We worry they can hear us but we have asked and they honestly said they can't hear us; not even our washing machine or TV when we have movie night.

This place is bliss compaired to our last place! There were 6 1 bedroom flats and most had at least 1 or 2 children living in them. The people would stomp down the stairs and let the door 'shut' loudly on its own which was really bad as the communal stairs and door were right next to our bedroom :mad:. This would happen at all hours as most of the adults living in the building worked odd shifts .
The worst one was the 4 am one above us as the dad would wake the baby while getting up for work so queue screaming baby, then you could hear the shower run for 5-10 mins, not long after that he would stomp down the stairs and let the communal door slam. To top it off you could then hear him get into the van picking him up as he slid the van door shut and the van drive off as they always parked next to the window in our bedroom to pick him up! Then around 7:30am the mother would get the children up to go to school/nursery so we would always hear them getting ready and then stomping down the stairs etc. It was horrific.

I miss my parents detached house that I grew up in most of my life sometimes as you couldn't hear anything from the neighbours usually (windows open in the morning would mean hearing the young children next door playing in the garden but it wasn't all that bad to be honest).
Although a few years ago a new family moved in 3 doors down from my parents and during the summer the teens living there have late night parties. The teens that go to these late night parties get shoved out the door in groups after 1/2am and sit and talk (read shout drunkenly) to each other outside random houses waiting for their parents to pick them up :eek:.This means that when the nights are really hot and my parents want the windows open they can only do so if they want to listen to the music and teen noise which as they are in their 50's they don't really want to. The days are spent with the same teens on a half pipe with their skateboards, blades or bikes so the teens that live there are just noise makers! My parents hate it as it had always been a rather quiet street before then.

Marmite27

1900's end terrace.

There's 3 guys that live next door, we hear them slamming their front and back door - they have wooden ones that I'm assuming swell in the damp and need a good slam! Other than that, in their living room, there's a plug socket of theirs that reverberates around in ours when its switched, which I find faintly odd, but not annoying.

Other than that we only hear them when they're watching a football match/sporting event and something good/bad happens! OH kind of likes that though, as its his cue to check skysports news.

Only other time we've ever heard them was over christmas, both of us were sat reading with no tv/radio on, and we heard someone practicing a trumpet. Well enough that we knew the song and started to sing along. They stopped quite quickly after that. I'm not sure if they were being polite, or didn't appreciate our singing!

Savvy_Sue

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

air soft things being shot across at the walls,

now THAT I would feel I had to report to the police.

jojo_2012 wrote: »

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

probably jealousy. :rotfl:

sunshinetours

Interesting thread and shows how many people get affected by noise pollution in their lives these days.
My first house was a two up two down semi and I vowed after that I would wherever possible get detached. Constant noise and worrying about noise gets inside your head after a while.

Unfortunately with hosue price inflation over past 16/17 years means detached has got more and more out of reach for many. We would be a lot happier nation i think if everyone lived in detached homes!

delain

My neighbours claim to hear nothing, I think they lie, because 7 people squeezed into a tiny terrace isn't a quiet affair

zaksmum

I'm in a modern semi and very lucky with my neighbours. Our kids grew up together so any loud music was tolerated by both sides as each of us knew our own kids were as bad!

Likewise the dogs...we both had them, so no complaints about barking or whatever. We've been neighbours over 30 years and get on really well, so can consider ourselves fortunate really!

Shelldean

I live in what I suppose you'd called a modern terrace, built in the 70's maybe 80's?
Have been here 15 yrs in March. Neighbours one side are fine and we heard them more when their 2 kids were growing up, music and such like. Nothing too major tho. On the other side we heard nothing, apart from when they turned their music up or had an row. They was a single mother and four boys, youngest was about 5 when we moved in. And funny enough we can hear sometimes, if either side plug something into the shared wall. But again it's not often.

BUT christmas 2010 single mother and her two remaining sons moved. We then had the HA spend ages in there decorating and the noise was awful. Totally scared the life out of our rescue dog. But knew it was temporay, so left it and cuddled the dog lots to soothe him.
Then the neighbours moved in ...... OH WOW!!!!!!!
The two girls can be heard singing, the granmother doesn't need a mobile....shes so loud she can just shout. And for some reason she has to stand in the garden to make her calls. ( been spared from that during the colder weather) The father has a very deep voice which vibrates through the walls. None of them can go up or down stairs without stomping, and shut a door?? Not a flaming chance ALL doors are slammed. So much so that when laying in bed ( top floor of a town house) I have vaguely felt the bed shake. And they seem to go through doors at least a dozen times. even the neighbours the other side of us thought the banging was us!!!
We have asked them nicely to be quiet, they deny it's them. We've reported them to HA but wasn't notified of outcome.
A couple of wks ago the noise was terrible, we went and knocked again they refused to answer so we posted a letter through asking again for peace and quiet. They have been better but the volume is starting to creep back up.

Their top floor smoke alarm has been bleeping since Oct, I did have a word with the father but he denies it's their alarm. It can be clearly heard from the front and from adjoining bedroom.
Am rather worried about this and again have reported it to HA, but it continues to bleep.


I just cant understand how two sets of neighbours in the same house could be so different in nosie levels. I mean we lived next to single mum for almost 14 yrs and never once had to complain.

devon27_2

1960`s mid terrace, think that the walls are made of paper! if you are really quiet you can hear the loo flushing next door on the one side:eek:
the other side they slam their cupboard doors in the kitchen and it drives me mad so i get noisey back and slam mine:D

Can hear people going up and down the stairs on one side and on both sides the back and front doors shutting but if you buy a terrace expect some noise I guess

both good neighbours both sides just noisey but could have and have had worse

Deep_In_Debt

I live in a 1980's mid terrace and my neighbours are now very quiet. One side, is a father and 2 teenagers; father works away from Monday to Friday so parties would start up at about 10pm during the week just as I was getting ready to go to bed as I'm normally up at silly o'clock the next day to go to work. My bedroom is at the back and I would hear them in the garden, chatting on their mobiles, kicking a ball around, etc...They were good though when I complained and they turned the music off and kept the noise down and the father apologised to me and asked me to let him know when these parties happened. I didn't as the kids were nice enough and stopped the noise when I asked and would then only play the music loud during the week until 11pm so we reached a compromise.

However, for the last 4 months, I've heard nothing from them whilst dad's been working away so not sure what has happened there, but fine by me - I'm not a spoilsport as I did the same myself at that age and don't mind parties at weekends (but that doesn't happen as dad's home at the weekend) when I don't have to get up early, but it was every night during the week for a while and these walls are as thin as lettuce leaves.

For 10 years, neighbour the other side and her 2 kids. She had attitude and an incredibly loud voice and would shout and swear at the kids. She would even swear at her ex husband and anyone who tried to prove her wrong on the phone (I heard the conversations!). She was so loud, I could hear her above the TV and heard her whole life story! Sometimes more entertaining than the TV! For 10 years this continued and I used to feel sorry for the kids. She moved away last year and I now have a neighbour who I don't hear a peep out of.

I've lived here for over 20 years and I consider that generally, I've been quite lucky with my neighbours. The previous neighbours have been very good and very quiet. Neither of the above are/were bad neighbours, I think they used to forget I am next door as I'm very quiet.

tazzyb

60s mid link - one side occasional noise, when they have had a drink, bbqs in the garden. The other side is murder our bed and sofa are against the wall with them. Baby crying, kids screaming, parents arguing, singing, opening cupboard doors. Wiping the benches down, pretty much everything they do. They argue alot, and she often throws all his belongings in the the back garden. Which is slabbed and every sunday spring summer and autumn he goes and scrapes around every single slab at 8am in the morning. He also likes to drag the wheel bins around a lot too.

It has got so bad we are moving bedrooms to the other side of the house and moving the sofa in the living room. We have dogs and they bark when people knock on the door so we do not say anything about their noise but the next house we have has to be detached.