Edwardian Mid Terraced

bruciegirl

Good evening,

I am going on a 2nd viewing of a very lovely Edwardian mid terraced property, and I am looking for anyone’s experience of neighbour noise in this style of property.

The master bedrooms are not next to each other, but the kitchen/diner area are. Living room is next to next door hallway.

Just looking for any general opinions on how solid the walls are on these types of properties.
I’m currently in a 30s semi and I can hear next door sneeze! Looking for a little more peace and quiet this time around

Thanks in advance

Alan2020

Detached house

bruciegirl

Detached house of course. Unfortunately, they also cost a lot more money, and is not a possibility for me.

Davesnave

bruciegirl wrote: »

I’m currently in a 30s semi and I can hear next door sneeze! Looking for a little more peace and quiet this time around

It's impossible to generalise with any accuracy.

I lived in a quite shoddily-built 30s semi, where more money was devoted to the plot than the finish, but sound transfer between properties wasn't an issue for me, or anyone else, so far as I know.


Modern property is supposed to meet building regulations on matters like this, but one still sees people on the 'In My Home' board asking about improving soundproofing in their new-build homes.

Bacon_Sandwich

I've recently moved from an edwardian semi where i lived for 8 years. The partition wall as far as I could tell was two skin solid construction. There was noise transfer from next door, more than I expected, but not to the point where it caused a problem.
It was worse after new neighbours moved in. We hardly heard a peep from the first neighbours. it was worse in the front room than anywhere else, where we'd occasionally hear the bloke next door cheering at the football on telly, or bollocking his kids. I suppose that the noise you experience will have more to do with the neighbours than the construction of the house.

macman

A house of that age will not have cavity walls, with consequent negative effects on heat loss. The party wall will be 9 inches of brick.
As above, the noise levels will be determined by the neighbour, not by the construction. The vast majority of terraced or semi-detached properties built in the UK before WW2 will be of that construction.

trailingspouse

Our house is Edwardian end-of-terrace. We hear very little noise from the family next door (couple with two lads aged 10 and 12, two dogs and a cat).



As others have said, much depends on who is living next door.

martindow

It depends on who the neighbours are and how sensitive you are. From my experience of living in a semi-detached house of this age, it is much less of an issue in living areas than in bedrooms.

hazyjo

So hard to say. I moved a year or so ago from a '30s terrace to an Edwardian semi, so kind of reversed from you.


We had noise in our '30s house where our lounges were back to back with next door, but nothing from the hallway into next door's (halls adjoining).


We're halls adjoining now, so no noise from the empty semi side obviously, and we barely hear anything from the other side. We can hear them singing if in the bathroom or kitchen, but the sound insulation seems pretty good (she sings, he plays the trumpet!). It's very faint and muffled.


Our heating bill is extortionate though with insufficient rubbish radiators and high ceilings. It's a cold house. Not freezing (I've stayed in some places that are like ice in winter even with heating on), but slightly on the wrong side of warm! Our old house was fantastic at getting warm! So cosy! I only feel like that now if the fire's on.


They're all different though, so not sure my experiences will be the same as yours!