Mid-terraced noise

[jm3405]

I moved from American to a Victorian mid-terraced house two years ago, and had been really fortunate with quiet and considerate neighbors. Unfortunately, one of my neighbors moved out and a family with two young boys (roughly 5 and 7) moved in. I can hear them ALL the time! Running, laughing, talking, singing, crying, shouting, you name it. I really like kids and have no problem with general neighbour noise, but it's loud enough for me to understand what the kids are saying word for word. Is that normal for a mid-terraced house? Or are they just noisy? Is there any etiquette for dealing with the noise? Or do I just have to live with it?

I live in an end of terrace, so not exactly the same, but we hear no noise whatsoever. We barely know there is anyone next door, despite it being a family of 4 (two primary school age kids). My neighbours also swear they can never hear us, despite the fact that we are loud (2 young kids plus we do argue!). I know know if we are lucky or if this is the norm though, as it's the only terrace I've lived in. I sympathise- I really can't stand noise!

Not all houses are built the same. There's no 'etiquette' - sounds like normal family noise.

As it's not a specific tye of nose (DIY / music at certain times) there's no point in requesting then to be more considerate, sadly. If neighbours aer good people, the etiquette may be in those cases to ask to stick to specific hours / move TV to another wall etc.
But as it's their normal regarding kids' behaviours, impossible to change. I don't know if it's in the house or the garden that most noise comes from - if house, try moving furniture along that wall to diminish it a bit?

I live in a mid-terraced and our walls are paper thin. We hear everything, it was also made worse when our neighbour got rid of their carpets. Wooden floors do not absorb sound.

I had an end terrace. We could watch TV with our sound off because we could hear next doors TV so clearly!

We moved.

Not the same as we are in a flat, but the neighbour noise is pushing me to breaking point. I so want to move.

I live in a mid terrace house, stone walls, built 1910. We can hear kids scream and shriek occasionally, overall the walls are thick enough to absorb the noise. We can't hear TVs or conversations. If someone is watching a sports event and something happens in the game we can hear cheering for a few seconds and that's it. Can't complain.

We live in a mid terrace - circa 1910. Paper thin walls. Has been awful during lockdown. We have 2 primary age boys - constant complaints from neighbours (but they are asleep from 8 to 7). We can hear neighbours too / but don’t complain about their shouting. Our kitchen is only place I feel we have privacy.

We are shortly renovating house and putting in sound proofing and also putting down carpets in the 2 rooms that don’t have them. If the other side also put in some sound proofing we would all be able to live peacefully!

Terraced houses are not all the same. My friends who live 2 miles away live next door to 5 students and rarely hear them unless windows are open!!

Ps when we finally got sick of the abuse (think f bombs directed at a 4 year old because he was playing super heroes, or having a tantrum), DH spoke to them. It hadn’t dawned on them that we could also hear their noise! So I hope OP you are quiet as a church mouse. I wonder if people that complain about family noise realise how noisy they can be too! You may be extremely quiet OP but as our NDN launched into a tirade about us (and we are constantly telling our kids to “shush” and allow them to run round house playing super heroes for Max 15 mins a day) DH told them we can hear all their noise and arguments - it’s just we didn’t hurl abuse at them or bang on walls and call them f’ing arseholes. Since that conversation, they have reduced their daily arguments!

From my experience noisy neighbours dont care if they are. I've lived in terraces in big cities and there had never been any noise.

So much of this self entities attention seeking behaviour is tolerated.

You could invest in soundproofing or if you can move.

Normal to us. We've been woken up by NDNs having sex before, and I once got up in the night to go to a crying child, only to realise it was next door's kid, bit ours. I'm sure they hear us often too.

We're used it though, it doesn't bother us much.

Terraces are different. Some have thicker walls.

We are mid Victorian terrace - hardly hear neighbours at all

1898 terrace house and we hear nothing. Apparently next doors baby had awful cold and screamed all night long. We had no clue.

Some terraced houses have single brick walls and some have double. It just depends on your street and how the row has been built.