If you are detached..

[CleverDenimJoker]

If you live in a detached house and you close your windows and doors can you hear your neighbours?

Im looking to buy a house soon

No - not unless they are right outside the front door!

Only if their children are playing the end of the garden nearest to us (not that I mind the noise of kids playing). Inside their house, absolutely not.

It depends what you mean by hear them, I can hear them mow the lawn but I cant hear them chatting in the garden or house.

No, can’t hear them with doors and windows closed, and very rarely when doors and windows open tbh.

Asking as I live in a semi detached and I love peace and quiet but the soundproofing is awful between my house and neighbours.

Asking as if a detached will make a difference as they cost so much more than a semi detached I get no attached neighbour noise but was thinking obv outside neighbour noise still happens

No, it's lovely and peaceful. We can hear people mowing their laws a but but can't hear people talking at all. I wouldn't know i had neighbours most of the time.

It really depends on both what you consider "neighbour noise" and how far away you are.

I lived in a detached house with a big garden and still had a lot of kids on either side and behind shouting, playing, kicking footballs, bonfire parties with all night guitar singing (when their parents were away) etc. Which I would consider fairly normal neighbour noise and nothing out of the ordinary.

Unless you move somewhere very isolated I would say yes you will get normal noise outside.

No, I don’t hear a thing

I don't hear neighbours even when windows and doors all open. Hear the occasional lawn mower.

I meant if you had all your windows and doors closed can you hear neighbours?

Not at all but I live on an estate with mainly pensioners and I'm the youngest by a good 20 years. Soooo quiet!

Well no, if I don't hear them with windows and doors open, I obviously don't hear them when they are closed :-)

Never been happier and no, I would never go back!!

The hearing of outside noise will depend on quality of your windows though.

I was just about to say this

Its I live in a nice semi well modernised but the soundproofing is awful I can hear the neighbours microwave! A family member got soundproofing done and it helped improve it a lot but didnt get rid of noise completely.

I could buy a run down detached if I stretch myself a bit and thinking if I would BU to do it

Oh, I thought this was going to ask me searching questions about my cool, aloof personality…

This is the very reason I bought detached when we could have had a larger semi. I can’t stand noise I can’t control! So far so good (5 years in). I work from home and didn’t get disturbed even when next door were getting a wall knocked down.

You will hear garden noise at whatever level it is now. Some people have neighbours who don’t use their gardens, others they’re out there screaming and shouting day and night. Detached or semi, that won’t change.

Your gardens will still boundary.

Inside the house though, no.

I don’t hear the neighbours but of course I do when their pathetic back firing cars pass by

No.

Yes this is what Im talking about I get the garden but at the moment in my semi there is no where at all I can escape neighbour noise even if I close all the windows and doors I cant get away from it

Yes you’d be unreasonable to stretch yourself to buy something run down. Refurbishment costs a fortune - often in excess of the value it adds, due to cost of labour and materials. Unless stretching yourself would also cover a full realistic refurb cost, you’re just switching one cause of stress for another.

Yes. We can hear their fire alarm. Hear their (outer) doors closing. Hear the kids banging footballs and basketballs. Hear them
having BBQs. I assume they can hear us using the garden for our own parties. Nobody complains either way.

It’s still a lot more peaceful than living in a flat tho!

I get that but the noise I think bothers me more than living in a run down house