If you live in a flat

[Tappingthetopfloor]

Can I ask what floor you’re on and how much noise you hear?

Ground floor would be great but I’ve heard that it can be so noisy from several floors above you, so we’re now looking at a top floor flat but want to know if there’s something we may be missing and haven’t taken into consideration?

Neither of us have lived in a flat before but we are in a noisy terrace! So we have no idea how different noise wise it might be.

We were ground floor in a Victorian conversion. Loved it. It was well made enough that we didn’t hear much street noise but also rarely heard anything from upstairs. Maybe them blaring ABBA while cleaning twice in eight years.

It’ll absolutely depend on the flat/people, but I loved the convenience of being ground floor.

I live in a 1930s flat, and it's really solidly built. The upstairs neighbours have a newborn and I can only very faintly hear it when it cries

Thirties flats are great!

I am sitting here right now in my third floor thirties flat with my balcony doors open. The only thing I can hear is the parakeets.

The only thing I can hear is the parakeets.

That is a bonus 😄 (as long as they’re not too noisy)!

They are noisy buggers!

Downstairs neighbour likes her flat very warm in winter. Nice for me 😉

As for parakeets - it's like being in the jungle some days, they're so noisy and numerous.

Funny, there’s an article in the Guardian about Parakeets today, saying how prolific they are becoming in London. I wonder if a cull will be on the cards 😢

I hear noise from all directions. Luckily, my neighbours are generally considerate, so it's 'normal' noise rather than 'ruin your life' noise. Normal noise is actually quite nice. It's low-level, and it makes you aware that you're not living on your own in a vacuum without being loud enough to disrupt what you're doing. 'Ruin your life' noise is the sort of noise that does disrupt your life and cannot be reasonably drowned out.

I'm not sure how you're going to lift weights without hacking off your downstairs neighbours, TBH. I think that's more of a ground-floor flat activity.

The way I look at it, if you lived in a house, and you were next to a relative's bedroom (whether adjacent, above or below) would you make that noise?

I don't mind the general noise from normal apartment living, but I'm very aware that I'm at the mercy of my neighbours moving out and being replaced with antisocial ones.

First floor of a purpose built block (built 2001) with 4 floors. Occasionally hear the toddler upstairs if he's jumping around but that's it. Never hear my next door neighbour (shared bedroom wall), never hear TV or music.

I think the front door would bother me if I was on the ground floor as it is quite a heavy close, and the lift is between the two flats on each floor so the ground floor also have increased foot fall into their corridor from anyone using the lift. Something to think about if you're in a block with one.