How much noise can you hear from your neighbours?

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I live in a 1930's semi and since the new neighbours moved in a few years ago the noise levels have been awful. They have done loads of work to their house, including knocking down the internal walls, removing the chimney breasts on the shared walls between their house and mine, and replacing all their carpets with laminate/wooden floors. I am not sure if this is the cause of the increased noise, or if it is just normal family noise (the previous neighbour was an elderly widow). I imagine they can hear my noise too (especially my dog) so can't really complain, but wondered if any of you think the 'repairs' they have done have exacerbated the extent that the noise carries...?

My neighbours are arseholes, so I hear a lot. Doors banging, dogs barking, shouting, her 9 year old (not SEN - I'm friends with her teacher) still has tantrums which are so bad that it freaks out my 3 year old, regular DIY. We had an incident last week when they decided that using a sander at 9pm was a good idea. . .

We live in a 1930s semi and have spoken to other neighbours who reckon that the walls are pretty thick and they hear next to nothing from next door, so I think we've just been incredibly unlucky.

Previous property was a 1950s semi and we heard nothing from our neighbours and they said they never heard a peep from us.

Moving to a detached in under 2 weeks and I don't think I'll ever look back after this experience.

1990's semi detached and we don't hear anything. We are probably slightly louder than they are, however we have never had a complaint and have been in the garden before where the neighbour had her French doors open and the tv was booming, yet when we went inside we couldn't actually hear anything through the wall! I once lived in a new build apartment though which was shockingly poor for noise, you could hear every argument, alarm and door slam from neighbours, when we approached our neighbour about the noise at the time he got awfully aggressive with us (he was also smoking weed constantly that was wafting into our flat every time we had a window open) after around 7 months of complaining to the building management who were appalling and left the lift broken for the entire time which left me struggling to leave our apartment due to my disabilities. We ultimately left after sending a final notice email and letter of where they had broken contractual agreement. Never been contacted again by them strangely.

Detached, so nothing except their shithead dog regularly yapping at nothing in the garden 🙄

I hardly hear anything from the neighbours with whom I share a wall. I live in a 1930s three bed semi but they seem to be pretty solid. Obviously I sometimes hear people in the garden if I am at the back of the house but little or nothing through the wall.

Victorian mid-terrace. Occasionally hear next door hoovering the hall and sometimes the daughter (early 20s) will have an anxiety and/or hormone induced meltdown which is quite screamy and loud. Hear nothing on the other side - middle aged couple and we were working away when their children were loud teens. No DC in this house so don't think we disturb anyone.

Detached, so nothing except garden noise in the summer. Threads like this remind me why I was so desperate for a detached house when we moved further out (London) from a more central terrace.

End of terrace. Can occasionally hear the little yappy dog next door but it's not enough to be a problem at all. Sometimes I can hear when his daughter and her children have gone round but again, it's in the day and no issue. I moved here about 5 months ago after being driven completely to the edge by my previous neighbour (I was in a flat, upstairs neighbour), not only was he an abusive arsehole but he would have his music (drum and bass) on all day and through the night, I'd be in tears constantly, on the phone to the police, environmental health, housing association etc I can't even begin to explain the impact it had on my mental health. Anyone who has to deal with noisy neighbours has my complete sympathy, it's one of the worst things I've experienced.

1930s semi and we don't hear much compared to majority on here. Occasionally hear drawers opening and closing in upstairs bedroom and a couple of other noises along the same line but that is it.

If our house is pindrop silence and they have guests, may hear murmur of voices but again, nothing more.

Neither us or them have dogs, we have young children so I so sometimes wonder how much they hear from children shouting and making noise

1930's semi. We can't hear much at all, despite current NDNs and the previous two sets of NDNs all having young kids. I guess we can thank the thick walls, plus next door is carpeted throughout.

We do hear the kids running up and down stairs but only faintly. One of the kids has autism; he squeals and kicks or hammers on the wall rhythmically at night, but you'd only notice it if you happened to be awake already. Really not an issue. (In the summer I do have to close the window sometimes, because the sound goes out their open window and into ours.)

We never hear any TV or music from next door, but they must be able to hear ours, as the telly is right next to the wall and DH watches shoot-em-up films late at night.

Previous neighbours did have a relative who came to visit rarely, who had a naturally "carrying" voice. He was only talking in his normal voice, but we could hear every word he said, even when we were on the far side of our house! I pity his neighbours.

Our last two homes have been detached so about 20 years, absolutely the best thing ever, not to worry about our noise or that of neighbours. I would never live anywhere that wasn’t detached, I just couldn’t now.

My 1st house was a very old ex council terrace and the neighbours had done something to theirs so that I could hear everything, sneezing talking etc. When I realised I could smell what they were cooking I sold up. I think the loft space ran the whole length of the 4-house terrace and had since been separated with breeze blocks. So once the lofts were converted (ours was) it allowed noise etc.

Last house I lived in for 5 years with same neighbours and hardly any noise (1970s terrace) then suddenly the noise started, I couldn't sleep because I could hear them coughing and snoring. So they definitely did something, maybe loft work again?

Currently in a timber new build and can't hear any noise at all 👍

WE have just moved out but we were in a 1930's semi and my god the neighbours were noisy. They always seemed to be shouting and arguing, we could hear everything as if the wall wasn't even there. Then they decided to put wooden floors in everywhere, so we could here even more, even them walking up and down the stairs and opening cupboard doors. We put up with it as I'm sure we had noise going through to them but by god am I glad we sold up.