Are detached persimmon homes noisy?

foxy-stoat

Internal noise transmission will be your biggest issue.  We bought a Bellway/Ashberry Homes detached and you can hear a conversation/tv/music through walls/closed doors*/ceilings far too much.

* if you call 2 x 2mm thick pieces of shaped hardboard glued on a timber frame a door.

MeandO

I have a new detached Persimmon home. I say detached, the gap bewteen mine and next door is probably only around a metre wide. No neighbours the other side as it's a corner plot. I lie in bed at night and can hear my neighbours talking in their house next door. I can also hear them running up and down their stairs! I had an older semi detached before this and could hear less in that house. I've had a huge amount of problems, as have most of my neighbours. Customer services are terrible, you have to keep nagging them and eventually they just ignore emails. I would never buy one again, in fact, I'm selling this one and moving back to an older property!

wls52

We are currently in a rented Persimmon detached house and we can't complain about the noise. The houses are very close to each other and we are overlooked, but inside it is very quiet - when the windows are shut we don't hear a thing and we live next to a small train station. My partner works from home upstairs and is on the phone a lot, I can't hear him when I'm downstairs.

We did have quite a few issues in general though over 1 year of living here, pipes leaking, built in wardrobes cracking, taps not working suddenly etc. and the handyman that our landlord uses said it's common knowledge that Persimmon homes aren't high quality builds.