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).

Not mid terrace but detached with a small gap between each side, not quite wide enough to walk through and not far enough apart.

One side, slamming of toilet lid every time it is used, banging of cupboard doors in kitchen and thumping when floor is cleaned. Random banging on floors and terrible out of tune 'singing' from tone deaf young teen along with beeping noises and loud phone ringing. Plus shower running and shouting from bathroom. Random fitness sessions with clubbing volume shit music.

Other side, iron gate scraping and banging shut, shakes the walls, scraping of furniture, thundering of feet along the hall, bellowing of voice on phone.

I am pleased not to have noisy neighbours, the quiet ones are bad enough.

@JorisBonson

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.

@JorisBonson: could you politely ask them to move the drum kit to another room? Are they remotely reasonable people?

@DespairingHomeowner no, they are not 🤦🏻‍♀️ very entitled. Keeping my polite request up my sleeve for when DH goes back onto night shifts next week.

RHS empty most of the time. When they are here, extremely loud phone / FaceTime conversations in Cantonese at all times of the day, gaming shouting, running up and down the stairs (man and university student son, only ever here at start and end of term time for a few days so tbh it’s not a big deal for a handful of days a year). LHS, quiet couple, one dog - very little. Washing machine spinning, people walking up and down stairs, front or back door closing. If I am in my bedroom I can hear them closing / opening their Velux, but never conversations. DS and I are sure to be the noisy ones of the three - hopefully the extremely shouty, wild, fighty children on the LHS end make us seem quiet in comparison!

Edwardian terrace. On one side, not much uses they are hammering/drilling, which they haven't done recently. On the other side, I hear them going upstairs (they probably hear mine - the house layouts are mirrored.) Also vacuuming, DIY. Occasionally have heard their bed - I suspect itthe other side of the wall from mine. But, given they have a toddler, I hear very little. I don't think they hear much from me - maybe the odd bit of vacuuming, but I only do that during the day out if consideration. Anyway, nothing to complain about - noises from the road tend to be more annoying, if they're digging up the road or something.

I used to be mid terrace.

I could hear light switches and also the snooker cue hitting balls!!

Students on the otherside - generally very quiet until there was a party!!

Another Edwardian Terrace. On the one side, a family with 3 teenagers and they used to have parties til 5 in the morning with a professional sound system and it was horrendous. It sounded like we were living in a nightclub but that's died down since they went to uni although the youngest occasionally plays the drums. The mother then had the cheek to come round ranting about the noise when we had builders in doing the kitchen. Told her to get fucked.

Other side we can hardly hear them, although we sometimes hear the dogs whining when we she goes to work in the morning.

We’ve been pretty lucky with our neighbours over 35+ years in the same house.
LH side was an elderly lady originally, then a very very quiet couple with 2 very quiet teenage daughters, then a single woman. She is currently having massive building works done downstairs back/outside - 2-3 months worth - but we can live with that!
RH side was for 20+ years a couple with 2 sons; over-indulged DS2 had stereo with massive speakers on party wall booming out bass. That was pretty awful as his mother didn’t mind (she could probably hear more than just the bass, tbf) & if I rang or went to the door it was so loud she couldn’t hear that.
And breathe....
Anyway a subsequent neighbour did a DIY renovation, in stages over 2 years, while living elsewhere. That alternated hideous drilling/banging with long periods of silence. Once they moved in they were fine, they had a baby, moved out when she was 3ish, but we rarely heard them.
Latest neighbours are middle-aged couple with grownup son. Rarely hear them either but they do have 3 vehicles, including a Transit van, so parking can occasionally be an issue.
Our row wasn’t all built at the same time so we probably don’t have “standard” party walls. Ours was an add-on to RH house (in 1890s), and LH house was joined on to ours a bit later, so both sides had outside walls at one time.

Edwardian terrace here. One of the kindest things anyone has ever done for me was the previous RHS neighbours saying that the walls were rock solid and they couldn't hear anything (we moved in with three very young children, one of whom was a terrible night-time screamer). When they moved out and were replaced with a young family, we realised that just wasn't true. You can hear a surprising amount - any raised voices and music, also building works!!
Generally we are all pretty live-and-let-live. LHS's teenage son had a drum kit for a bit, but they were very good about him not playing late at night and asked us to let them know if it bothered us.
On balance, the neighbour-noise is a small price to pay for living in a lovely house in a great location. No real complaints here.

Left side I can occasionally hear the young son. His bedroom wall is against out bathroom wall so j can sometimes hear him talking to his friends online or laughing when I'm in the loo. I guess because our bathroom is a quiet room as otherwise we dont hear them at all.

Other side I sometimes her them going up the stairs as their stairs are right next to our sofa. And I hear their hoover but it's not loud

Neighbour #1 is away a lot of the time, but when she's in she likes to talk loudly on the phone in her conservatory. I can hear every word, and thus I know she is desperately unhappy in her job.

Neighbour #2 is a family of 4 and just general family noise. I'm currently sitting in silence at home and can hear some talking going on, but nothing outrageous. If I had the TV on I wouldn't notice them.

Kid who enjoys screaming started at 6.15 today. Who needs an alarm clock?

Resurrecting again, it's quite the morning here.

Right hand side - seem to be having some sort of 8am party where they're all dancing and reading the same book out loud?? Teenage girl giving her lungs a good airing.

Left hand side - horrible dad of the 2 kids that enjoys screaming turned up at 8am to speak to the kids through the letterbox. Now in the garden having a good shout for no reason. I can see where the kids get it from.

I'm tired and dreaming of detached houses this morning.

I'm resurrecting again. My neighbours have just had a huge patio set delivered. Man neighbour shouting loudly on the phone "we're gonna have such good parties bruv".

Anyone want to buy a house?