To want to move for this?

[Renovationhell]

I live in a semi detached. Been here 7 years, 2 sets of neighbors previously no issues.

Got new ones a month ago. They are lovely but my god they are noisy. Doors slamming, loud talking (never heard someone talk through the wall before!) DIY late at night. Dogs who bark constantly for no apparent reason and howl constantly when they leave.

I’ve tried to ignore it but as times going on it’s annoying me more and more. I’m on edge waiting for a noise now which is ridiculous. It feels like my privacy has been invaded and all the work I’ve put into this house so far is pointless.

Is this just what it’s like living in close proximity to someone. How do I get used to it?

Ive spoken to DH about moving last night. There’s a huge 1000 house new build estate up the road just begun. The catch is I would be increasing my mortgage by £150k to upgrade to a detached house. There are no older detached houses in the village or surrounding area within budget that don’t need complete renovation and I haven’t got it in me to start again- I literally would need to move in somewhere finished.

The new builds are a worse location and are smaller than current house (old Victorian, not finished renovating yet so can’t sell for full price) but it would be detached and also finished which mine won’t be for years! I have small children who may benefit from living in an estate full of others bs current location in an old village full of older people? I have more building work booked in for this summer to the tune of 20k and I’m now thinking of cancelling as putting more money into a house I may leave seems daft. New neighbours are also renovating and likely to be for years so my building work just goes alongside theirs.

Any input into my scrambled thoughts much appreciated 😄 are new builds generally really noisy places to live? Are new build houses as rubbish as people claim? Any thoughts on living on such a huge estate?

@Renovationhell I think if you were to sell, don't spend any more money on improvements

New owners will have their own priorities and taste

I wish that was all I had to deal with. Sorry, not trying to one up but maybe puts into perspective? Our last house was semi detached, our neighbour had parties every single day, all day and all night. Playing guitar, music, singing, screaming and shouting. He and his family would often have loud arguments that spilled into the street and often times his house was being smashed up.

Police went and laughed along with him, anto social went and apparently got warnings but nothing ever went further. Other people in the street corroborated. He was even raided, was arrested and gone two nights then nothing else came from it. We're 99% sure he sold drugs, he was constantly "slyly" handing people things, getting in cars for 2 seconds then the car leaves. People were constantly in and out (not just the same people, random people, different people several times a day).

We were demented. We actually considered a joint suicide before we got our dog, as silly as that sounds we had no help and nowhere else to go. It wore us down, it broke us and we couldn't move until last year. We were there for 6 long, hard years. The COVID years were the worst because pubs weren't open so he invited everyone to his - yes during lockdowns too.

We now have a wonderful home and the only noise we here is the annoying child running about, jumping and shaking our lights but I'd happily put up with that for a few more years until they grow out of it than a second of what we used to have.

I sympathise with the dogs howling as that's also something we had to deal with. Our dog has only ever howled twice and it's when she's been sleeping, she doesn't bark much either as we are considerate neighbours.

I wondered this.

Might be worth getting a sense of their plans before making yours, OP.

I would also look into soundproofing before moving. New build estates aren’t great, and I think moving from what you have now you would really feel the contrast.

I would also go back to your neighbours and say look, this is not ok. The council will write to them if you make a complaint- DIY is allowed up to I think 8pm, but dogs shouldn’t be left to bark constantly, and if you can’t sit in your garden because of noise you are being denied quiet enjoyment of your property, so if the neighbours don’t take steps to adjust their noise you could make a noise complaint to the council (give them a chance to take it seriously first).