Taylor Wimpy soundproofing

nickyg2000

Do you know if the Taylor wimpy home is masonary or timber frame they make homes using both methods. The timber frame homes are notorious for noise issues. Hear so many conflicting views. I guess the neighbours play a big part ??

notanewuser

In a townhouse you're sharing more wall with your neighbours compared to footprint than in a standard 2 storey house. You're going to hear more noise (and the stairs may not be wide enough to get your furniture up). Personally I'd avoid like the plague.

nickyg2000

GoldenShadow wrote: »

My friend lives in a Taylor Wimpey albeit a mid terrace. Its awful. You can hear both neighbour's TVs through lounge walls and can hear one of the neighbour's washing machines when its on a spin cycle, but I think their washer must be pretty pants for the sound to travel as much as it does.

is it just TV your friend can hear ?

nickyg2000

notanewuser wrote: »

In a townhouse you're sharing more wall with your neighbours compared to footprint than in a standard 2 storey house. You're going to hear more noise (and the stairs may not be wide enough to get your furniture up). Personally I'd avoid like the plague.

But I just need out this flat. The guy upstairs is currently moving slightly on his leather sofa which can be heard clearly over my TV

boundy

nickyg2000 wrote: »

But I just need out this flat. The guy upstairs is currently moving slightly on his leather sofa which can be heard clearly over my TV

I feel your pain. In my old flat, you could hear the upstairs neighbours go to the toilet. Been in my new Taylor Wimpey house for a year now and although it's a terrace, I don't hear a peep from both sides.

nickyg2000

boundy wrote: »

I feel your pain. In my old flat, you could hear the upstairs neighbours go to the toilet. Been in my new Taylor Wimpey house for a year now and although it's a terrace, I don't hear a peep from both sides.

Yeah it sucks :-s it's odd how many different views you get on new homes. Glad yours is quiet. Do you hear people going up the stars?

boundy

nickyg2000 wrote: »

Yeah it sucks :-s it's odd how many different views you get on new homes. Glad yours is quiet. Do you hear people going up the stars?

Looking from the front, it's Hall to Hall on the right and on the left it's lounge to lounge. It's well designed, it's just a small terrace of 4. Our little terrace is 2 shared ownership and my other neighbours are rental. The 4 the other side of the street were normal retail houses. Both terraces have the same foot print but mine was built to the local authority spec and is 2 bedrooms but the retail houses are 3 bedrooms.

I looked at the plans for both and I'm still surprised they got 3 bedrooms in the other houses, my 2 bed is 80sqm with quite a bit of storage space. Only down side is I can only get 1 car on the drive as the other half is taken up by a flower bed that is half on my side and half on next doors, it maintained by the estate.

I'm lucky because the land was local authority owned, so once the estate has Ben finished the we be re-adopting all the roads, so my estate maintained charge is buttons because it only needs to cover the park and a few bits of communal estate paths.

room512

We live in a town house and we can hear the neighbours going up and downstairs occasionally but that's the only noise that we hear.

libf

Can you find a development with the same style as house but as the show house? And then go and see if you can hear noise or not? (Or not as the show house but knock on doors and ask...)

Also, if you're already 'in the process' then it's a bit late, really...

nickyg2000

Room512 is that's Taylor wimpy home ? How loud is the stairs sound? Enough to wake a light sleeper up?