definitely agree with you, I live in a new build and it is so different from my friends who live in old converted houses, which are nice but if you are unlikely with the neighbours so noisy
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Quietly boiling them though...
New builds have very thin walls. I’ve bought a few in my time and they are pretty awful as it goes, unless you’re detached. Give me an older house any day of the week. Far thicker walls and usually, well-built.
In contrast, my new build is quieter than my mums 1930s semi! It’s only a semi but has been designed so that the shared wall doesn’t mean our living rooms are backing on to each other’s etc. Basically the house next door is a mirror of mine so worst case scenario we might walk up the stairs at the same time and hear each other.Quietly boiling them though...
New builds have very thin walls. I’ve bought a few in my time and they are pretty awful as it goes, unless you’re detached. Give me an older house any day of the week. Far thicker walls and usually, well-built.
Although a massive caveat is that it’s a single person who lives next door so we’re very blessed in that ‘how much noise can one person alone make’ way...
Sounds like you have a “halls adjoining” house and these are a far better design because you then can’t hear your neighbours when you’re trying to relax in your sitting room. But, many builders rarely build houses of this design. They fling them up and sod off to the next plot of land.
That sounds like it! Yes new builds have a bad reputation for noise and I was completely expecting it with this house but we just got lucky. OP make sure you have a look into house types etc!!Sounds like you have a “halls adjoining” house and these are a far better design because you then can’t hear your neighbours when you’re trying to relax in your sitting room. But, many builders rarely build houses of this design. They fling them up and sod off to the next plot of land.
But I can’t beat having my lovely single neighbour too
I lived alone at my last house and my neighbour got really lucky with me, as I rarely made much noise. He even mentioned this a couple of months before I moved, he said, “oh I hope your buyers are nice and quiet people because I have been so spoilt having you as my neighbour.”That sounds like it! Yes new builds have a bad reputation for noise and I was completely expecting it with this house but we just got lucky. OP make sure you have a look into house types etc!!
But I can’t beat having my lovely single neighbour too
She can't be, Mrs hinch doesn't clean ... and she has a cleaner
I used to live in a house with halls adjoining. The house next door had 3 kids that thundered up and down the stairs with such force that our light fittings swung and doors rattled in their frames. Never again will I share a wall lolSounds like you have a “halls adjoining” house and these are a far better design because you then can’t hear your neighbours when you’re trying to relax in your sitting room. But, many builders rarely build houses of this design. They fling them up and sod off to the next plot of land.
My neighbours are currently drilling, small complaint, but when you add it to the others...a dog crying at all hours (I wasn’t sad when it passed away, I am a bad person) and the fact that they somehow managed to drill a massive hole between our bedrooms within days of moving in, that they didn’t fix for 5 months...super annoying!
But imagine if you shared a living room with them, the noise would be unbearable.
Check your drains
I dunno they seemed to play on the stairs more than in any room
But yeh we vowed to never share a wall again. They were horrendous we knocked to discuss it politely and they got very aggressive and accused of us having over sensitive hearing. When they started saying they don't believe in saying no to their kids we knew we could never reason with them so started looking to move
They sound horrendous.I dunno they seemed to play on the stairs more than in any room
But yeh we vowed to never share a wall again. They were horrendous we knocked to discuss it politely and they got very aggressive and accused of us having over sensitive hearing. When they started saying they don't believe in saying no to their kids we knew we could never reason with them so started looking to move
I am detached now, but would never ever go back to a semi. I’m done with them, had more than my fair share. I cannot tolerate other people‘s noise.
I feel terrible for my neighbours. My 10 year old has autism and can be really loud, screaming, stomping around especially imwhen he had a meltdown. He rarely sleeps before 4am. I/we try to minimise meltdowns my son's sake and if I'm honest theirs. I'm exhausted daily as he has 3 siblings.. I have apologised several times and the are vague with an answer. I would probably feel better if they were either annoyed or sympathetic. I think I general they're quiet people. It can't be easy living next door to us.
Poor innocent you, a hole into your bedroom... I bet they were peeping, watching you get undressed and whatever action might be going on.
No normal person would leave a hole even for a few hours, well I wouldn't.
Hope you've checked pornhub etc.
I had the worst ‘neighbour’ previously diagonally over the back so our properties weren’t even adjacent. Without going in to too many details, it turned out she was obsessed with me for 2 years and was having delusions about me (I can only assume she was paranoid schizophrenic, it just doesn’t make any sense otherwise). Lots of strange and unpleasant things happened (eg she smashed a window in the middle of the night while I was asleep) but it took me a while to piece everything together as I had literally done nothing and barely had any contact with her aside from some weird interactions in the street, at my door and at the shops.
It culminated in her screaming and threatening me at the local shops in the carpark while I stood there silent, confused and mortified all in one, holding my (at the time) 2 year old. I ended up selling the house days after that to get away from her, it was awful and I was terrified by that point.
Luckily my new neighbours are quiet and friendly, and keep to themselves. It was literally just the worst luck ever being near her and becoming the focus of her delusions.
It culminated in her screaming and threatening me at the local shops in the carpark while I stood there silent, confused and mortified all in one, holding my (at the time) 2 year old. I ended up selling the house days after that to get away from her, it was awful and I was terrified by that point.
Luckily my new neighbours are quiet and friendly, and keep to themselves. It was literally just the worst luck ever being near her and becoming the focus of her delusions.
I hate all of the “neighbours” who live on the road
we have names for them all and they are all terrible at parking.
we have names for them all and they are all terrible at parking.
Just an update on my noisy dog neighbours; today they left with their army of kids in tow at 2pm. It’s not just before midnight, not one of them has come home I’m lying in bed at the other side of the flat and I can still hear the dogs barking like they have been since they left. I’m absolutely at my whits end with this, I don’t even know what else I can do
Fart through walls
we could hear our neighbours banging around their kitchen in our old flat, DH proper ripped one out, loud long and proud....the banging suddenly stopped and didnt resume that evening. Frightened them off with a toot 
You win this thread.
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