Taylor Wimpey homes

ankspon

pimms29 it is the same on my estate regarding people complaining about the useless soundproofing but not doing anything about it,i wonder how many people are actually affected nationwide?

ankspon

This is a link to see what is above my plasterboard ceiling,absolutely no soundproofing at all and holes in the concrete substructure that separates the flat above from mine.These pics was sent to Wimpey and they still would not investigate.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3446651=

Keith777

Noise from neighbouring properties in new builds is shocking! I know, we lived with it for almost 2 years and let’s just say we knew everything about the other side and they knew us. It was awful, intolerable is how I would describe it.

I grew up in a semi and the noise was nowhere near as intrusive. You hear plugs going in sockets like it is in the same room, you can hear the flick of a switch.
I would not advise anyone to buy a new build that is attached, it is simply awful.

The builder of our fist new build house said it is normal to hear some noise, the noise was not normal at all, we may have just as well shared the same house with our neighbours. The walls are paper thin, like internal walls, they do nothing to sound proof new homes.

Buy detached or an older house would be my advice every time.

ankspon

You are correct,god only knows who would want this flat

Keith777

To add to the above, when we moved, we heard that the buyers of our house had problems with next door. Because of noise.

So you could end up with a property you cannot sell!

Keith777

ankspon wrote: »

You are correct,god only knows who would want this flat

Sorry if I have worried you with my last post, we did manage to move, but we had to make veiwings when we knew the neighbours were out. So that might be an option, just don't mention noise from next door.

ankspon

Mine is above not next door,we don't have a neighbour attached sideways but it sounds like we have 20 above.

GDB2222

ankspon wrote: »

GBD2222,i never said they were in favour of the builders.As for the noise transference it is not acceptable to hear the people above you using the loo,showering,walking,talking,closing cupboard doors,chopping food,flushing the loo,putting plugs in sockets and flicking the switch,etc,etc.The sound engineers said they could hear all the above but they have to follow procedures so even after hearing all that it passed.It is the standards and procedures of noise transference that is bad as well as the builders.Whatever your opinion nobody should have to listen to the above,i hear more in this flat than i did in a house from the upstairs.

So, your gripe is with the building regs. Why not complain to your MP? All builders just tend to stick to the regs.

To put this in perspective, I am just in the process of converting my old ground floor office into a flat. It is a very sound old Victorian building, and we never heard any noise from the upstairs flat into the office. Even so, we are going to have to install a suspended ceiling with sound insulation above it.

Unfortunately, the quality of the workmanship makes a huge difference to the end result, or so we are told by our surveyor. If the builder leaves a pinhole gap in the suspended ceiling or drives a screw right through from one to the other, it can alter the sound insulation dramatically. So, it gets designed to meet the building regulations, and then after it is all built, the sound engineers will come in and test it. It sounds like overkill to me, but that is what we have to do.

As far as I can see, the designed spec is significantly better than building regulations require, on the assumption that something is bound to go wrong in the building of it. So, what you end up with depends a bit on how many things go wrong when it is built. It seems to be potluck whether you end up with a building that exceeds the requirement of building regulations by a large margin or a very small one.

ankspon

I had the bathroom and bedroom ceiling removed by a builder and installed acoustic insulation and acoustic expanding foam in the gaps.This did not make a difference so the build quality as well as the total lack of insulation are just 2 factors.

GDB2222

Keith777 wrote: »

Noise from neighbouring properties in new builds is shocking! I know, we lived with it for almost 2 years and let’s just say we knew everything about the other side and they knew us. It was awful, intolerable is how I would describe it.

I grew up in a semi and the noise was nowhere near as intrusive. You hear plugs going in sockets like it is in the same room, you can hear the flick of a switch.
I would not advise anyone to buy a new build that is attached, it is simply awful.

The builder of our fist new build house said it is normal to hear some noise, the noise was not normal at all, we may have just as well shared the same house with our neighbours. The walls are paper thin, like internal walls, they do nothing to sound proof new homes.

Buy detached or an older house would be my advice every time.

It is really odd how sound travels. We have a 12 inch brick wall in our house between our bedroom and our son's. He can be playing music quite loudly, and we do not hear him, but if he turns on one of the switches on his wall, we can hear the click really loudly.