I'm wondering about soundproofing in newbuild houses and whether ours is exceptionally bad or just the norm.
We recently moved into a detached house, built 2009 by taylor wimpey.
External soundproofing seems non existant. We have double glazing but you can hear every time a neighbour closes their car door, and people doing this in the morning (at normal volume) wakes my kids.
In the lounge at the back of the house you can still hear cars driving past at the front. You can hear next doors dog barking in the garden with all windows and doors closed.
Internal soundproofing is also useless.
The downstairs toilet is across the hall from the lounge, yet while sitting on the sofa, all doors closed you can hear someone having a pee.
You can hear very loudly if someone showers in the bathroom above the kitchen.
Last night I used the coffee grinder in the kitchen at the back of the house and it woke DD in bedroom upstairs at front of house (all doors closed).
We can hear the dishwasher from our bedroom above.
Thank god it's detached or we'd probably hear the neighbours picking their nose.
Is our house particularly rubbish for sound transmission, or are all new houses this bad?