Anyone here live in a terrace house?

[Hertfordshire10012]

How do you cope? I can hear my neighbour’s tv, can hear them talking, slamming doors. It drives me mental

I do - I don’t hear any noise from either side though - occasionally hear the front door one side if the wind catches it and it slams. My neighbour when I asked did say she heard our DC occasionally but she didn’t mind and they’re grown up now.

I used to live in a back-to-back house - neighbours on all sides! 😳

Yes, and one side is very quiet, the other are so loud, i swear they have elephants in the house.

A lot will depend on the construction of the terrace. Sadly many modern buildings are constructed with thin dividing walls and shared floor joists.

Im in an EOT (semi) and hear zero from my neighbours. I can’t hear talking, tv sounds or eg dishes being banged about or coughing. My brother is in a Victorian terrace in central London- no problems.

Of course it does also depend on how considerate your neighbours are too but in itself a terrace or adjoined property doesn’t always mean lots of noise.

My stairs adjoining side aren't that loud, although the bloke is a bit of a performative sneeze wanker. The chimney breast adjoining side are loud because they appear to need their wall mounted TV on full volume all day, despite spending most of their time in the garden. I can block most of it out tbh, but in my next life as Ruler of the Universe, wall mounted TVs will be shoved up the arses of their owners.

Yes one side is super loud and he spends his whole days shouting at his elderly mother/shouting on the phone, he does my head in. We have reported it to the police before because of his shouting. They also have their TV on so loud I know what they are watching all the time. They drive me mad.
The lady on the other side of us lives alone and I never hear a sound from her

there are terraced houses and then there are terraced houses
sweeping statements are meaningless

Yes this. I’m also end terrace, Victorian, really thick stone walls, and bizarrely the only thing I hear regularly from next door is the landing light switch.

We are in a Victorian terrace and don’t usually hear our neighbours much. One set had a noisy toddler who we could sometimes crying/screaming - I remember once waking in the middle of the night and stumbling sleepily down the hall to deal with the crying baby that had woken me - before realising it was next door’s kid and that mine were in fact 7 and 10 by then.

But they moved out a couple of years of ago and now it’s usually quiet.

Yes, Victorian terrace, noisy neighbours and we are waiting to exchange on a detached house soon!

We used to hear our old neighbours (before they moved) but they used to scream and yell and throw stuff at each other (we heard it smash...). We never hear the current neighbours. I hope the old neighbours are no longer a couple - and am so glad they had no kids either!!

We do hear our other neighbours when we're in the garden or have the back door open.

We heard the neighbours that back onto us.....when they were having very loud s3x 😂 We were having a BBQ in our garden, I was mortified for them....!!!

Victorian mid-terrace built c1885 with tiny backyard gardens.

I'm in a very old Victorian terrace and the walls are thiiiick. Np noise here!

We don't hear anything at all. Lived in these houses 10yrs and don't hear neighbours at all. No one does. They are ex RAF homes built for Americans and I don't know what they did but we are mid terrace and can't hear neighbours at all
Ever.

We’ve had two terraces.

Terrace 1 a Victorian terrace we couldn’t hear much but the odd cough or laugh.

Terrace 2 was a 2018 new build and never heard anything from the neighbours. I assume they must’ve sound proofed it well.

I think it depends on the house rather than just being a terrace.

I hear the noisy thoughtless side, mainly shouting all the time, but never the quiet side.

I grew up in a detached, then moved into terraced housing. I couldn't get used to the noise!

In the last few years of living at home, I spent most of my time up in the (converted) attic, because it was the quietest part of the house, where I couldn't hear the neighbours on one side almost constantly shouting at each other and their children.

Needless to say, I'm glad I don't live in a terraced house anymore! I still fantasise about living in a detached house in the middle of a large field with no close neighbours, though...

Our 1905 Terrace seems pretty sound proofed - can hear neighbours if they're really loud (having a party or a row) but mostly fine. They seem to go to bed at roughly the same time as us, too, although we sleep in the converted attic and neither side have bedrooms up there. Actually, the only thing I can regularly hear is when I'm in our downstairs loo (under the stairs) and someone is having a wee in theirs! The wall there (originally cupboards) must be particularly thin - or maybe it's the acoustics!

1970s here. One side are fine and our main rooms don’t adjoin. The other side was fine for 15 years as we could only hear the TV from the old
lady who lived there. Now she’s passed and the new family have ruined my life. No carpets or curtains and can hear every single sound from a noisy family (kids 3-15). Not English so I can’t understand the shouting but constant thumping, laughing, thundering up the stairs, chairs and crockery scraping, switches flicking, screaming toddler. I don’t understand how they could have been allowed to build such houses. We didn’t plan to move but are desperately trying to find a way to afford a detached house.

Edwardian terrace here. In certain rooms, we can hear the neighbors going up and down stairs and for some reason, from my living room I can hear one neighbor sneeze loudly in his living room!

Have heard the odd squeaking bed if I’m having trouble sleeping but only in the early hours. I expect they’ve heard ours on occasion. 😂

Oh, dogs barking at squirrels out of the window as well. But ours does that too and it doesn’t look last long.

Mine is a new build so probably better insulation and sound proofing than an older house. We can hear front doors opening and closing if we are right at the front of our house. We can also hear talking right outside of the house (no front garden, the house is up to a walkway so people have to pass right by the house) and can also hear people if they are in their back garden. But we do not ever hear anything through the dividing walls so no TVs, no inside talking, etc. One side has two primary age children and you would not know they are there.

End of terrace here. I don't hear loads from my neighbours - a mixture of them being considerate people and most of their main living spaces being on the other side of their house- but when I do hear something, I don't mind because I really like them.
If you hated your neighbours, I can see that every little noise would be a reminder they are alive and really grating!

I live in an old miners terrace, I've also lived in flats for many years where the antics of people upstairs is often clearly heard.

I remember the advice of my nan gave. Hear everything but listen to none of it.

The comings and goings of my neighbours is just background noise to me now.

1990s terraced house here, can’t hear any neighbour noise.

Get cavity wall insulation .

I live in a terrace. I can't hear either set of neighbours much at all. The elderly lady who lived on the one side died and I was dreading a landlord buying it up and turning it into a HMO. This is exactly what has happened (he didn't get planning either 🙄) but as it happens they are lovely and also quiet so I'm keeping my powder dry for now.