On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:07:54 -0000, "NY" wrote:

"Andrew" wrote in message
...
I realise Nancy is replying to a 10 year post, but it's always amazed me
how
little care is taken with soundproofing between joined-up homes. Well,
disappointed more than amazed I suppose.


In a 1960's bungalow it's par for the course.

Building Regs Part E should have 'cured' the problem in newer
houses and flat conversions. The sound transmission requirements
for the latter are particularly strict, and expensive if you
get it wrong.


Our previous house was a 1930s terrace and we had great problems with noise
(mostly of the TV) from our neighbours. Either the TV in their living room
or else one in a bedroom was on so loud that we could hear every word of
EastEnders or Coronation Street some days. Soundproofing standards in the
1930s were probably less stringent than nowadays - and also the neighbours
in those days were probably less inconsiderate!

If they were lucky they might have had a radio and/or a gramophone,
and I don't suppose their amplifiers were very powerful.
A few years ago a guy who did some work on my house told me that he
had bought a plot of land and was going to build a pair of semis on
it, for sale. He had been surpised, he told me, by the amount of work
that had to go in to designing the party wall - it, and its
construction when he came to do it, increased his build budget by an
amount that he had not allowed for when he first worked up the scheme,
several £1,000 was implied. Haven't seen him since, to find out how he
got on.