Impact noise from neighbours

radderfire said:
How is the sound being transmitted, through the air or through the ground concrete? Presumably the kid is running on a concrete path, and the sound is also getting reflected from their house wall? So I'm guessing it's getting transmitted through the air, over to your wall, and then amplified when going through your wall because it's hollow cavity?

Personally, I don't think you should say anything to your neighbours, because the kid is not doing anything unreasonable.

How loud is the noise when in your house? Is it louder than someone whispering or talking? Are you being super sensitive??

Would a cheap solution not be a pair of noise cancelling headphones?
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Completely agree about them not doing anything unreasonable.

It’s strange because it’s much louder in the house than outside. Outside you can hear it, whereas inside it’s almost a drum like noise.

I have been talking to my partner about it, and whilst they hear it, it doesn’t bother them anywhere near as much as it bothers me.

As for the headphones. I already have some, but I can’t live in them all the time haha
 
Reesespieces92 said:
hi everyone!

Long time lurker… first time poster.

So we bought a new build house back in 2021 which we have lived in for almost 3 years.

We love the house in general, however we have a few noise issues which we are hoping we can get solved.

So we have a detached house, with a 3 foot path down the side. Next to this is the fence and on the other side of this is the neighbours 3 foot wide path.

However when in our house we can hear next doors kid running up and down the side of the house. Well, when I say hear it is actually more the feel of it. This is the same with their door which is down the side of our house. When they shut it we can feel it vibrate through the house. It is driving me insane! Tbh this isn’t something I expected, and the reason we bought a detached was so we didn’t have to hear the neighbours.

We have had a soundproofing company out to look at the house and give us a quote, but we don’t want to spend thousands of pounds to be disappointed with the results.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can make this any better?
We have been suggested to have a muteclip system on the wall with tecsound and furring channels. As well as filling the ceiling with rock wool. Essentially adding more mass and decoupling the ceiling and walls facing the side of the house. The house is brick construction, with insulation, then thermalite blocks and then dot and dab plasterboard.

We have been told that the dot and dab and hollow voids/ ceiling are amplifying the impact noise. Does anyone have any insight into if we can expect decent improvement on the noise issue.

I apologise for the long post. We are really struggling to decide what is best to do.

Thank you :)
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what type of noise bump and grind ?
 
Are your neighbours aprochable people ?

You could ask them to if they would ask the kids to shut the door quietly as it vibrates/bangs echoing your house. This may slow them down along the side of the house as they need to shut the door quietly.

But Its never an easy situation when it comes to neighbours and there children so tread carefully.
 
Is the fence part of your deeds to maintain? If so consider getting it replaced with something more heavyweight, eg completely brick or using those acoustic panels they put alongside roads.

You also mention 2 paths either side of the fence, what are they made of? If theyre both concrete or slab and have been laid at the same time as the fence went in, its likely just a solid mass transmitting through from one side to the other, so changing the path itself to something decoupled from their building may reduce a lot of it.
 
Our next door neighbours, so called, adults are noisier than their children. Every external door it seems cannot be closed without slamming it and actually makes my rig in my office vibrate. Then there are a fishwives, male or female, who have to stand just inside their front doors having a shouting conversation with someone on the other side of the road. Another neighbour, who hasn't got a garden, has had a seating area built outside their front door where groups of neighbours gather until late at night getting drunk and singing at the tops of their voices. We're so happy when it rains...
However we are moving out as we've had enough...
 
Door slamming can be loud and reverberating. Our patio door, you really have to slam it super hard (sometimes multiple attempts) to get it to close, especially if the sun has been out (heat expansion). Because it is an external door, I'm sure plenty can hear/feel it, but we don't live in a detached property.

We once viewed a new build 'detached' house that had a super narrow pathway separating it from the neighbours, this was one of the concerns I had. Pay for a detached but you'd have people walking (or running in your case) literally a few feet from your living room, if you opened the window they'd probably hear every conversation.
 
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What type of fence do you have between the properties?

Your choices are improving the sound deadening of the fence, or of the internal wall. The latter is likely to be more effective. You can add a layer of sound insulating material onto an internal wall, but you lose some space.
 
radderfire said:
What type of fence do you have between the properties?

Your choices are improving the sound deadening of the fence, or of the internal wall. The latter is likely to be more effective. You can add a layer of sound insulating material onto an internal wall, but you lose some space.
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The fence is just a standard one with vertical upright slats.

The interior solution does sound good. By the sounds of it we will lose 7cm width to the room, which doesn’t bother me.

I’m just concerned whether we would notice an improvement.
 
Reesespieces92 said:
The fence is just a standard one with vertical upright slats.

The interior solution does sound good. By the sounds of it we will lose 7cm width to the room, which doesn’t bother me.

I’m just concerned whether we would notice an improvement.
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Yes I think you would. Sound proofing materials are effective. I guess it would be possible to do it temporarily, then you can remove it once the kid has grown up! Might be a problem if you have a window in the affected room though, you'd have to have double or triple glazing on that.
 
radderfire said:
Yes I think you would. Sound proofing materials are effective. I guess it would be possible to do it temporarily, then you can remove it once the kid has grown up! Might be a problem if you have a window in the affected room though, you'd have to have double or triple glazing on that.
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Thanks for your input. Really appreciate it.

We considered secondary glazing, but we would need to treat the room first as the window reveal would be reduced due to the soundproofing materials.

We have been looking a lot at Ikoustic products and they seem to have very good reviews.
 
cuke2u said:
Our next door neighbours, so called, adults are noisier than their children. Every external door it seems cannot be closed without slamming it and actually makes my rig in my office vibrate. Then there are a fishwives, male or female, who have to stand just inside their front doors having a shouting conversation with someone on the other side of the road. Another neighbour, who hasn't got a garden, has had a seating area built outside their front door where groups of neighbours gather until late at night getting drunk and singing at the tops of their voices. We're so happy when it rains...
However we are moving out as we've had enough...
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Indeed. Anyone laughing off the OP as nothing serious needs to live near these scumbags to understand what it's like.

Some people are simply ignorant holes. Talking to ignorant people rarely resolves anything (just look at GD).

And suffering the disruption is not pleasant at all, to put it lightly, regardless of the source.
 
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cuke2u said:
Our next door neighbours, so called, adults are noisier than their children. Every external door it seems cannot be closed without slamming it and actually makes my rig in my office vibrate. Then there are a fishwives, male or female, who have to stand just inside their front doors having a shouting conversation with someone on the other side of the road. Another neighbour, who hasn't got a garden, has had a seating area built outside their front door where groups of neighbours gather until late at night getting drunk and singing at the tops of their voices. We're so happy when it rains...
However we are moving out as we've had enough...
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I had the same.

We moved into a detached. Now no noise bothers me at all.
 
ants83 said:
I had the same.

We moved into a detached. Now no noise bothers me at all.
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This is our plan and we're about to move into a detached house that has driveways separating each property on the edge of a village that has only 948 residents. The only noise will be tractors passing through occasionally at this time of day. We have no need for a mortgage but the buyers of our house mortgage lenders have been a pain in the rear.
We can't wait...
 
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Reesespieces92 said:
Thanks for your input. Really appreciate it.

We considered secondary glazing, but we would need to treat the room first as the window reveal would be reduced due to the soundproofing materials.

We have been looking a lot at Ikoustic products and they seem to have very good reviews.
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I reckon changing the path might be the better first step, less intrusive as well, you say you'll lose 7cm but you'll lose it on each wall and you'll also need to get the floor and ceiling done, that's quite a lot of work. Not to mention the cost, it's not cheap. I priced up a box room recently to be about £3k parts only.
 
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sigma said:
I reckon changing the path might be the better first step, less intrusive as well, you say you'll lose 7cm but you'll lose it on each wall and you'll also need to get the floor and ceiling done, that's quite a lot of work. Not to mention the cost, it's not cheap.
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i think this is the problem. There’s lots to consider.
Our gate is attached to the side of the same wall. This can be felt too if it shuts or is windy, so did think decoupling this from the wall may help a little.

We have been quoted for the ceiling and the 2 direct walls with window area. Comes out at around £7k. This is with iKoustic products and installation from professionals (Don’t trust ourselves to do it haha)

It’s expensive, but then I have to weigh up the cost of moving to another detached house is probably 100k more in our area.

Our biggest fear is we pay this much money and then it hasn’t helped at all. Guess it’s hard to imagine it…
 
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