I can hear my neighbour snore!!

LiE said:
I live in a 50s semi, which is built like tank. Despite this I can hear our neighbours, but not at the level you can.

Few times a week while winding down in bed, we have to put up with their sex noises which can only be described as a screaming pigeon being attacked by a fox. I normally play some music when this happens. Outside of this, unless they are talking at a loud level we cannot hear them.

During summer we always sleep with a fan on, meaning we cannot hear anything at night. You could look at a white noise machine.

Unfortunately a detached house round here starts at around £450k.
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We had this problem with a neighbour next to our spare bedroom, it soon stopped when one of less than sensitive friends stayed over and when she saw the lass from next door in the garden the following morning she casually remarked on how much fun she must have been having last night. Never a peep was heard again.
 
a1ex2001 said:
We had this problem with a neighbour next to our spare bedroom, it soon stopped when one of less than sensitive friends stayed over and when she saw the lass from next door in the garden the following morning she casually remarked on how much fun she must have been having last night. Never a peep was heard again.
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My wife is very close to saying something awkward as well. It's hard to look them in the eye when we talk.
 
LiE said:
My wife is very close to saying something awkward as well. It's hard to look them in the eye when we talk.
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I'd let them know most people would be mortified to think there nocturnal activities were keeping the neighbours up!
 
Send them a Christmas card:

Merry Christmas from us, your neighbours,
A small request re conjugal labours,
Your antics pass through wall and plaster,
As your bed shakes ever faster,
So next time Santa's up your chimney,
Could you remind him walls are flimsy,
"Oh Santa baby please cut us some slack,
We'd rather not hear you empty your sack!"

Maybe I should be working for Poundland's marketing team.
 
i rarely hear my flat neighbours at all. I am sometimes quite noisy i thought but hey if i cant hear them and they are not trying to be quiet i guess they cant hear me either so win win? :D (i have films on quite loud and i scream occasionally)
 
Andrew_McP said:
Send them a Christmas card:

Merry Christmas from us, your neighbours,
A small request re conjugal labours,
Your antics pass through wall and plaster,
As your bed shakes ever faster,
So next time Santa's up your chimney,
Could you remind him walls are flimsy,
"Oh Santa baby please cut us some slack,
We'd rather not hear you empty your sack!"

Maybe I should be working for Poundland's marketing team.
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If that's your own work maybe you should :D
 
I rented. Next doors child was mentally ill. Bedrooms adjoined I could her everything. Was terrible.
Bought a house. 60s. All adjoining apart from bathroom. I can hear talking, sneezing, loud groups talking go right through the house.
Happens everywhere. I've yet to see a semi in which noise doesn't travel.

Want a detached one day but for now I have to put up with it. The new house isn't bad as I get on with the neighbours. Hope they don't move out!
 
It's threads like this that make me love the 18" thick stone walls of our edwardian townhouse. Can't hear anything from the neighbours.

As mentioned, the only way is to do it properly, worth losing a couple of inches for.
 
Andrew_McP said:
Send them a Christmas card:

Merry Christmas from us, your neighbours,
A small request re conjugal labours,
Your antics pass through wall and plaster,
As your bed shakes ever faster,
So next time Santa's up your chimney,
Could you remind him walls are flimsy,
"Oh Santa baby please cut us some slack,
We'd rather not hear you empty your sack!"

Maybe I should be working for Poundland's marketing team.
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5*
 
We were on the verge of moving out several years ago as we couldn't put up with our neighbours noise any longer. Shouting/screaming/swearing at each other in the night wasn't the kind of thing we wanted our newborn to grow up next to. I bit the bullet and created a floating insulated stud wall along the whole party side of the house. It lost us around 5-6 inches of floor space and I even had to narrow down two doorways but the reduction in noise was dramatic and helped us regain our sanity.

From being able to hear most of their regular conversations (and all of the much worse stuff) we barely heard a peep out of them after that. They did move out a few years later but I'm still glad I carried out the work as I don't have to worry about our own noise being inflicted on the new neighbours.
 
Sound can behave in really curious ways.

1800s stone semi - not a single noise from next door

Late 1800s brick semi - could hear coughing, sneezing, things being dropped on the hard floor and chairs scraping on tiles. Nothing else

2010 new build semi - could hear vacuuming, nothing else

1982 brick semi - absolutely nothing

1980 brick semi - occasional snoring but nothing else
 
ChroniC said:
Do you think that could be related to the type of insulation or cavity, rather than differing bricks.
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It could even be down to how they were built. A less than conscientious brickie might not bother with perfect joints on a party wall that would never be seen again (unlike an exterior wall). Gaps in the mortar joints give a great passage for sound transfer.
 
I made a post previously about hearing neighbours TV and his lodger's skype call, in hind site possibly heated argument with her boyfreind who (was or is) also staying.

I just loved the amount of people saying to sell up and move, somehow just absorb all costs associated to doing so.

My neighbour has been off work the past few days and as far as I can gather (as we've been out the house for times during the day) he's had his TV blaring from 10 till late. Tonight I had to do the unsociable thing of banging on the adjoining wall. Which I don't like doing. When we went round to raise our concerns he admitted he's going hard of hearing and turned down the TV while we were there, but to still have a conversation I felt like we had to shout at each other.

We're planning on extending and moving rooms around but my biggest worry is if when the time comes to sell the noise is a deterrent to future buyers and we lose out on sales. I think if we can still hear him come sales time we'd politely ask before each viewing to turn it down.
 
ash_scotland88 said:
I made a post previously about hearing neighbours TV and his lodger's skype call, in hind site possibly heated argument with her boyfreind who (was or is) also staying.

I just loved the amount of people saying to sell up and move, somehow just absorb all costs associated to doing so.

My neighbour has been off work the past few days and as far as I can gather (as we've been out the house for times during the day) he's had his TV blaring from 10 till late. Tonight I had to do the unsociable thing of banging on the adjoining wall. Which I don't like doing. When we went round to raise our concerns he admitted he's going hard of hearing and turned down the TV while we were there, but to still have a conversation I felt like we had to shout at each other.

We're planning on extending and moving rooms around but my biggest worry is if when the time comes to sell the noise is a deterrent to future buyers and we lose out on sales. I think if we can still hear him come sales time we'd politely ask before each viewing to turn it down.
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Or report the clown to environmental health he could get a hearing aid/headphones!
 
Does installing sound deadening work when the snoring is coming from the same bed you're in? can you form it around the offenders' mouth and nose?
 
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