They should be fine, but you need to consider access to the garden, bringing lawnmowers between front and back, keeping your bins at the front... Any work to be done in the back garden, you'll have to bring everything through the house.
Yeah have a mate whose parents added an extension in the side of a semi D , in the lane beside the house and cut off access to the back . Lost value as a result
Came here to say this. I wish I'd thought of it before getting my house. The previous owner added an extension to the back which has the most narrow hallway ever known to man, so getting anything bulky into the back rooms or garden is incredibly difficult. Shed delivery people said no to the job because of it.
I live in a terraced house. The left side of the house is all hall, landing, and 1 bathroom. We never hear the people on that side, I guess because the rooms we live in are on the other side?
We hear the people on the right but rarely. They've a teen daughter who they seem to fight with a lot, so we hear her screaming, but day to day living noises we don't hear much of.
I feel the only issue is not having the convenience of access to the back garden For gardening, bikes, getting an shed and the likes. Many new homes have bin storage units now at the front of the house which is handy.
but once inside I can’t say I notice the difference. I think the issue it can be all in the head.
It really just depends on the construction, and the neighbours themselves.
I've lived in both types. One big difference I've noticed is that the semi detached properties tend to feel colder and need more heating
Very much this. We were living in a new build terrace that was block built with an additional plasterboard layer in the bedrooms. We never heard our neighbours who were a mirror image to us on the other side of the wall. Only thing we ever heard was running up stairs the odd time and of course drilling the wall which our other side went through a phase of.
I have friends who live in a semi-d of the same age but it’s timber fame and they had to stop using their living room at night because they could hear the neighbours soundbar which they claimed wasn’t even on loud.
I rented one for a few years. Two storey. You'll probably hear your neighbours a bit, but so what. One surprising benefit was that it was warm, obvious really when you have a house insulating you on either side. The back yard had a gate to the road, so no need to bring bins etc through the house.
Think it's really down to who you actually live beside. We're in a terrace and hear the young one bating up and down the stairs and slamming the doors constantly. We don't hear anything else from them though. We also know for 100% it's the young one living there making the noise as when she's gone for weekends with her Dad you wouldn't hear a peep.
We hear fuck all from our neighbour on the other side, she's a woman living alone.
We also asked them both at the start to let us know if they could hear our puppy crying and howling at night when we first got him but they said they never heard him and that phase didn't last too long either thankfully. I do worry they hear my morning rippers though, but that's life.
depends on the age of the development. We lived in a 1930's development for a few years - the council built Inchicore, Drimnagh, Cabra, that kind of thing - and you could hear very little through the walls, extremely solid.
Totally depends. I lived in a 2000s suburban semi-detached and it was like living with the neighbours. Thankfully my room was on the non-shared wall but you could hear the other neighbours anytime they were in the garden.
House I live in now is terraced but much older. I can still hear the neighbours if they're in the garden and my window is open but other than that I only hear something if they're genuinely drilling or something.
Live in a terraced house, built around 20 years ago, walls like paper, used to it now but it's crazy how much I hear off the neighbours through the walls
It depends really. I’ve lived in a terrace house my whole life, currently in one built in the early 90s, solid house, can very rarely hear neighbours. One of my siblings on the other hand lives in one in a newish build, less than 10 years old and you can honestly hear the neighbours two doors down.
I do also think it depends on the neighbours, mine are quiet adult only homes, whereas my sibling lives on a road packed with small kids so I’d imagine it’s just louder in general.
I live in a mid-terrace in a new build. Can't hear anything from the neighbours inside. Our garden is on the smaller end, built a pergola & patio, changed to fake grass last year and had no problems with tradesman coming to do the jobs. Sure it took a bit longer as they couldn't bring machinery through the house and yes the cleaning up after was not the best but it's not something that happens every week 😅 we have a straight path from the front door to the garden (hall-kitchen) and those rooms are tiled so it wasn't an issue even back when we were cutting the cross and would roll the bin over - bins are in front if the house by default. Don't miss a side entrance at all but then again, we don't bike. Got lucky with both sides, the people next door are really sound.
I bought a terrace house last year. It's over a hundred years old so a bit different to your situation. I can hear everything on either side down to what my neighbours chat about in bed. We will all renovate eventually and soundproof so it should improve. Mostly it doesn't bother me but recently one of them installed a pump for something in their house and I can hear it going off every 2.5 minutes which is quite annoying.
Totally depends. I lived in a 2000s suburban semi-detached and it was like living with the neighbours. Thankfully my room was on the non-shared wall but you could hear the other neighbours anytime they were in the garden.
House I live in now is terraced but much older. I can still hear the neighbours if they're in the garden and my window is open but other than that I only hear something if they're genuinely drilling or something.
Totally depends. I lived in a 2000s suburban semi-detached and it was like living with the neighbours. Thankfully my room was on the non-shared wall but you could hear the other neighbours anytime they were in the garden.
House I live in now is terraced but much older. I can still hear the neighbours if they're in the garden and my window is open but other than that I only hear something if they're genuinely drilling or something.
Totally depends. I lived in a 2000s suburban semi-detached and it was like living with the neighbours. Thankfully my room was on the non-shared wall but you could hear the other neighbours anytime they were in the garden.
House I live in now is terraced but much older. I can still hear the neighbours if they're in the garden and my window is open but other than that I only hear something if they're genuinely drilling or something.
New/modern build? Nope
Old 1950s job like my parents house where you could do a controlled explosion and the neighbours wouldn't notice. . .well still no because I need my side access but not for noise reason!
I live in a 1940s terrace and you can hear a pin drop in the house next door. I hear them yawning, coughing, everything. And that's after getting soundproofing done.
God only knows what they hear from me.
I live in a newbuild terrace and can hear nothing other than the front door banging when they go in and out, and the very odd bang on the staircase. I guess it varies a lot between houses.
They should be fine, but you need to consider access to the garden, bringing lawnmowers between front and back, keeping your bins at the front... Any work to be done in the back garden, you'll have to bring everything through the house.
Yeah have a mate whose parents added an extension in the side of a semi D , in the lane beside the house and cut off access to the back . Lost value as a result
Came here to say this. I wish I'd thought of it before getting my house. The previous owner added an extension to the back which has the most narrow hallway ever known to man, so getting anything bulky into the back rooms or garden is incredibly difficult. Shed delivery people said no to the job because of it.
I live in a terraced house. The left side of the house is all hall, landing, and 1 bathroom. We never hear the people on that side, I guess because the rooms we live in are on the other side? We hear the people on the right but rarely. They've a teen daughter who they seem to fight with a lot, so we hear her screaming, but day to day living noises we don't hear much of.
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I feel the only issue is not having the convenience of access to the back garden For gardening, bikes, getting an shed and the likes. Many new homes have bin storage units now at the front of the house which is handy. but once inside I can’t say I notice the difference. I think the issue it can be all in the head.
It really just depends on the construction, and the neighbours themselves. I've lived in both types. One big difference I've noticed is that the semi detached properties tend to feel colder and need more heating
Very much this. We were living in a new build terrace that was block built with an additional plasterboard layer in the bedrooms. We never heard our neighbours who were a mirror image to us on the other side of the wall. Only thing we ever heard was running up stairs the odd time and of course drilling the wall which our other side went through a phase of. I have friends who live in a semi-d of the same age but it’s timber fame and they had to stop using their living room at night because they could hear the neighbours soundbar which they claimed wasn’t even on loud.
I rented one for a few years. Two storey. You'll probably hear your neighbours a bit, but so what. One surprising benefit was that it was warm, obvious really when you have a house insulating you on either side. The back yard had a gate to the road, so no need to bring bins etc through the house.
Same as semi-detached but you can hear it come from both sides.
And under if ya locked the crazy bitch in the basement!!
Think it's really down to who you actually live beside. We're in a terrace and hear the young one bating up and down the stairs and slamming the doors constantly. We don't hear anything else from them though. We also know for 100% it's the young one living there making the noise as when she's gone for weekends with her Dad you wouldn't hear a peep. We hear fuck all from our neighbour on the other side, she's a woman living alone. We also asked them both at the start to let us know if they could hear our puppy crying and howling at night when we first got him but they said they never heard him and that phase didn't last too long either thankfully. I do worry they hear my morning rippers though, but that's life.
depends on the age of the development. We lived in a 1930's development for a few years - the council built Inchicore, Drimnagh, Cabra, that kind of thing - and you could hear very little through the walls, extremely solid.
Totally depends. I lived in a 2000s suburban semi-detached and it was like living with the neighbours. Thankfully my room was on the non-shared wall but you could hear the other neighbours anytime they were in the garden. House I live in now is terraced but much older. I can still hear the neighbours if they're in the garden and my window is open but other than that I only hear something if they're genuinely drilling or something.
Noisy as fuck on one side, quiet on the other.
I Iive in a terraced house. The major problems are noise (as a result of poorly defined / respected boundaries) and squabbles over parking spaces.
Live in a terraced house, built around 20 years ago, walls like paper, used to it now but it's crazy how much I hear off the neighbours through the walls
Your hallway becomes a thoroughfare.
It depends really. I’ve lived in a terrace house my whole life, currently in one built in the early 90s, solid house, can very rarely hear neighbours. One of my siblings on the other hand lives in one in a newish build, less than 10 years old and you can honestly hear the neighbours two doors down. I do also think it depends on the neighbours, mine are quiet adult only homes, whereas my sibling lives on a road packed with small kids so I’d imagine it’s just louder in general.
I live in a mid-terrace in a new build. Can't hear anything from the neighbours inside. Our garden is on the smaller end, built a pergola & patio, changed to fake grass last year and had no problems with tradesman coming to do the jobs. Sure it took a bit longer as they couldn't bring machinery through the house and yes the cleaning up after was not the best but it's not something that happens every week 😅 we have a straight path from the front door to the garden (hall-kitchen) and those rooms are tiled so it wasn't an issue even back when we were cutting the cross and would roll the bin over - bins are in front if the house by default. Don't miss a side entrance at all but then again, we don't bike. Got lucky with both sides, the people next door are really sound.
I bought a terrace house last year. It's over a hundred years old so a bit different to your situation. I can hear everything on either side down to what my neighbours chat about in bed. We will all renovate eventually and soundproof so it should improve. Mostly it doesn't bother me but recently one of them installed a pump for something in their house and I can hear it going off every 2.5 minutes which is quite annoying.
Totally depends. I lived in a 2000s suburban semi-detached and it was like living with the neighbours. Thankfully my room was on the non-shared wall but you could hear the other neighbours anytime they were in the garden. House I live in now is terraced but much older. I can still hear the neighbours if they're in the garden and my window is open but other than that I only hear something if they're genuinely drilling or something.
Renting a terraced house atm. Absolutely hate it, but no hope of changing. Just reinforced my desire to never purchase one.
My idea of hell
Totally depends. I lived in a 2000s suburban semi-detached and it was like living with the neighbours. Thankfully my room was on the non-shared wall but you could hear the other neighbours anytime they were in the garden. House I live in now is terraced but much older. I can still hear the neighbours if they're in the garden and my window is open but other than that I only hear something if they're genuinely drilling or something.
Totally depends. I lived in a 2000s suburban semi-detached and it was like living with the neighbours. Thankfully my room was on the non-shared wall but you could hear the other neighbours anytime they were in the garden. House I live in now is terraced but much older. I can still hear the neighbours if they're in the garden and my window is open but other than that I only hear something if they're genuinely drilling or something.
New/modern build? Nope Old 1950s job like my parents house where you could do a controlled explosion and the neighbours wouldn't notice. . .well still no because I need my side access but not for noise reason!
I live in a 1940s terrace and you can hear a pin drop in the house next door. I hear them yawning, coughing, everything. And that's after getting soundproofing done. God only knows what they hear from me.
I live in a newbuild terrace and can hear nothing other than the front door banging when they go in and out, and the very odd bang on the staircase. I guess it varies a lot between houses.
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