Mid terrace dwellers...

[JorisBonson]

How much can you hear your neighbours?

Right hand side -
Hairdryer
Plugs being plugged in
Occasional arguments
Teenage daughter who takes every opportunity to sing very loudly, and not well.

Left hand side -
Heart radio from 8.30am EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. The muffled bass of a DJ talking shit is driving me insane
Children who class screaming as a hobby
Mum who classes loud Facetimes as a hobby. General loud everything. I think she actually wants everyone to hear her inane chat.

(I'm also very aware that they can probably hear us but we're generally quite boring and quiet).

The only time I’ve ever heard my neighbour is when their young grandchildren are playing in the back garden. I’ve never heard either side through the walls.

One neighbour once mentioned she heard me using an electric sander when I was redecorating but she wasn’t moaning about it, just asking how the DIY was coming along.

Semi-detached here, but our neighbors have a karaoke thing and have been singing the same two show-tunes at full volume, pretty much every evening since March. One of them is Dreamed a Dream. So I think I have gained the right to identify as a mid-terrace dweller.

Victorian mid terrace dweller here.
On one side, I hear the tv in the evening, muffled but not loud. The kitchen chairs scraping across the polished concrete floor during the day. They seem to be moving their chairs on a very regular basis.
On the other, we have a middle aged couple. We never hear them. Occasional banging on the piano when the grandchildren come and visit. We are lucky to have lovely neighbours. We are probably the loudest of all three but luckily we have a good relationship with both and I’d like to think they’d let me know if we were being too loud.
Being in central London, detached isn’t an option for us. There are a few detached houses on my road and they sell at around £5m! Slightly out of my price range! I have no problem with terrace living. Give me a central London terrace over a detached pile in Surrey any day of the week.

Is a flat-dweller allowed to join in? Left side, nothing. Right side, nothing. Upstairs we hear some chit chat, gaming, tv and footsteps because they don't have carpets. All within very reasonable levels. But we're the only ones with kids so my poor neighbours are subjected to shouting, screaming, TV, kids running, more shouting, things banging and clanging, crying, more running and screaming and more TV. Occasionally our fire alarm.

Edwardian mid-terrace and the walls are pretty thick.

Left hand side: Hear stairs creaking when they go up, occasional bass if they’ve got music on.

Right hand side: DIY fanatic and used to have a dog who howled when he was out at night ( that was awful). She’s now died. He’s recently sold the house so we’ll see what the new neighbors are like!

Us: Dog goes mad when he sees a squirrel outside (we always bring him in quickly though); teenagers thump noisily upstairs; I expect they’ve heard the odd row! We try to be careful and have asked whether the dog is a nuisance- but he only barks occasionally so no one’s too bothered.

We live in semi and our side used to be a gp surgery. All the walls have been sound proofed because of that. I haven't heard anything from our neighbours

I lived in a mid-terrace for years .I had lots of neighbour changes LHS, most were pretty quiet, except for one couple.
One night partner was on nights, just me and the dog at home. then the dog's hackles went up and he started growling by the boxed in stairs ,getting louder and louder. I could hear moaning noises so I slowly slid the door open and the dog dived on the stairs barking and growling.
It was next door having sex on the stairs, I think we spoiled the moment there, I laughed a lot :-) dog was disappointed there was no burglar to maim lol.
Another night we heard crash ,bang bang bang down their stairs, then screaming and shouting doors banging , WTF? All quiet after, had he thrown her down the stairs, sounded serious. Partner went out later with the dog said it was all in darkness and quiet.
Next morning took the dog out the back alley, and there was a trail of blood from their yard around to the garages. Oh shit , what the hell had happened??
Later.....they appeared, Mrs marched to the house, trailing behind was Mr.... two black eyes and arm in a cast and sling ,oh dear :-0
Oh the joys of living in a terrace! but the were exceptional lol

Very little from either side because we are all quiet considerate households without kids. Most noisy household is mine because I have a Jack Russell and because my living room is at the top of the house next to their bedrooms, so if I have my TV or music on they can probably hear it. I do try to keep volumes down especially in the evening.

I just reading this thinking I’m so glad I don’t live in a terrace and then realised to my embarrassment I do! Don’t know why I was thinking I lived in a semi when I’m 5th house in on a row of 8!

Left side I only hear them when they are arguing and the women is really going for it, never hear her partner or if they are having a drunken get together with friends in the garden. Right side occasionally their dog barking and DIY, feel quite lucky really.

Left hand side have just got home. A nice "dfft dfft" from the radio interspersed with screaming kids.

I might go out.

Don't really hear anything. One side absolutely nothing, other side occasionally their dogs bark but that's it. I don't know if we are incredibly lucky and have naturally quiet neighbours or if our houses are somehow quite sound proof!

Just started a thread on this issue, without seeing this!!!!

Hear nothing on one side. Other side - extremely loud music. I hate it.

By the way, those of you who have loud neighbours who carry on watching loud TV etc into the late evening, how do you sleep???

Rarely hear the right hand neighbours. In the summer they sometimes have drinks in the garden with friends and we can hear them talking, but they're very considerate and never get very loud.

Left hand neighbours have a very loud toddler and we hear her a LOT. Having been there ourselves we have nothing but sympathy for them - although I've felt less sympathetic on the couple of occasions I've woken up in the night to comfort a crying child, only to discover it's theirs!

Tbh both sides probably have more cause to complain about us. In a 4 person house DH is the only quiet one, the rest of us are all performers - an actor, a couple of singers and a pianist! Luckily we all seem to have a pretty tolerant relationship.

I'm in a modern mid-terrace town house and hardly hear anything, just quiet sounds that people are there sometimes. Dogs barking sometimes but I have a dog too.

My old Victorian terrace had thinner walls. I could hear next door's stair lift which was freaky until I knew what it was, not a problem after that. On the other side the man used to come home drunk and sing and talk to his dog very loudly occasionally.

Nothing. Two foot thick walls (the Victorians knew how to build!)

There's nobody in on the right hand side at present anyway (it's a holiday home).

Left hand side can occasionally hear very faintly their dog bark. Kitchens are less well built, so I can hear the rattle of the washing machine. That's all. But then they aren't very shouty and have no children.

A little bit related but this was a rented semi not long ago. We are both retired rented a house to await new purchase. Through the wall was a very elderly lady. Not much to hear during the morning early afternoon loud sixties music late evening Tv on almost full blast partakes of wine leaves TV/radio on all night. She did this for 2 nights on the trot we were on our knees by the end. DW went to speak to her about it full of apologies no more heard for 2 weeks then it stated again.

In the last couple of weeks before moving to new house, invited in along with neighbours for her big birthday party. The mystery of the many elderly men helping her with her garden. It turned out that she could not open the corked bottles of wine that she drank and they after doing the gardening and odd jobs they opened the cork on her bottles enough so that she could pour with ease. She showed us her collection in her fridge. She was a very interesting character but we do not miss the noise!

Resurrecting for a rant.

Loud side man moved out a few months ago after many, many, MANY rows (mostly at 5am) which ended in several neighbours (including ourselves) calling the police during a particularly nasty sounding one (this was the tip of the iceberg in terms of him disturbing the street). His bags were on the drive the next day, we all rejoiced. Loud side lady actually thanked us and said she was glad he'd gone.

He's bloody back, as we heard at 4am while they argued again.

AGH.

@JorisBonson: hopefully a dead cat bounce!

@DespairingHomeowner

I just had to Google that and now I'm laughing.

Since he's been back they now have a fully furnished back garden, including 2 bed frames and 2 (how??) trampolines. Not planning to sell for a bit but already dressing it.

*dreading

@JorisBonson: my neighbours only have one delightful leatherette DFS sofa in their garden: I see they need to keep up!

Back again.

Today the child who enjoys screaming has a drum. It is against my bedroom wall. He is screaming while drumming.

His mother, who also enjoys shouting, has the radio on full blast to drown his screaming and drumming out, whilst periodically shouting at him.

This has been going on since 7am.

Baby screaming at various points in the night to the right, and a stupid amount of barking from the left!

Yay. It used to be nice living here.

Right hand side, occasional dogs barking (and subsequent 'shut up, get in, no need for all that noise' from the old lady who owns them. They do then shut up). Her daughter comes to visit sometimes and has a voice like a foghorn that can be greating. Other than that nothing and she's quite pleasant.

Left hand side, TV, hoover, dog, music at that annoying volume where you can tell it's music but can't make it out, all day every bloody day, even in term time in lock down when ds was trying to concentrate on school work and getting mightily pissed off with the noise (at the tender age of 6). I had knocked and asked politely could they turn it down only to have abuse hurled at me. These are also an elderly couple, but the husband used to sing in a few local clubs and thinks he's a rock star.

He lives in a three bed terrace in Liverpool. He's not a rock star. Just a twat.

I will live somewhere with no neighbours one day and it will be lovely.

I will live somewhere with no neighbours one day and it will be lovely

My mantra until we make a bit of money on this place and can sell (in 300 years)