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Thanks chap for the support, I have a feeling a lot of the noise is stemming from under the floor(1st floor), the floor have no insulation in there and I no in our house it booms and echoes quite a lot if we walk heavy footed or if my 1year old runs around upstairs it's very load, I no on...

That sounds about right, it's ok if the person paying the £30 is the one doing the work but when it's a large company relying on trades to uphold that standard it's never going to be reliable But more info on my problem, I made a small hole in the dot and dab wall in our bedroom then placed my...

Evening folk just thought I'd see if anyone else has any more help please, thanks

Cheers fella very nice of you, hopefully jeds may still have some more tips, Thanks

I no what you mean, most of them are only prepared to come and do sound tests I spoke to robust details and they said we shouldn't be hearing clear footsteps and washing machine etc so presumably something has been done wrong but I just can't seem to find it! But surely this kind of thing has...

I work on houses nearly identical to these regularly and I can tell you it's not normal, the developers even agreed there's something not right

Agreed mate,Were can I find someone that will actually come out and look and check everything that could be leading to this problem by actually getting dirty and making holes! Iv spoke to sound specialist but they don't seem to understand the building side of things Thanks

Any help or tips would be great, thanks

Just an update, realy hoped I was on to something but I removed my meter box from the wall to get access to cavity and it apears to be ok from what I could see, all insulation in place, brick ties clear of mortar and no mortar builds up in the bottom, so I'm bit disappointed in a strange way...

Just a thought with regards to debris build up In The bottom of the cavity, this could make sense as the noise is much worse on our side and our house is slightly lower than next door so presumably the rubble would be touching our wall but not there's as there higher Can something like this...

Ok thank's il try to find out, presumably if the problem is wall ties or crap in cavity there is little can be done now? Again many thanks your the first person in 6 months who's been able to help us

Block wise they seem to be the dark grey almost black when wet and a little crumbly unlike the normal light grey colour block that are more solid if that helps

They havnt used soundproof plasterboard!

The other interesting thing is we don't hear any airbourne type noise like talking etc and they claim it passed the airbourne test mid 50s which is quite high ?

Thanks again this is great help, there still building on our site so I had a nosy expecting to find pour standards but it semp quite good there were no obvious gaps, all insulation in place according to details it's isover rd party wall roll, they hadn't put sealing around the joist were they...

That's great thanks, il try and get my head around the robust details. Don't suppose you can think of anything that could be leading to the problem, I realise there a multitude of different things to take into acount but just wondered if there's anything obvious that could cause such a big...

Hi it is built to robust details of which I asked for a copy of but there seems to be a few variations in the documents, the house is part of a estate around 100 houses and nearly every semi has complained to either the builder or some have even called police to complain

I'm also waiting to find out which set of robust details they worked to, I just want to feel I'm gona get somewhere and I'm not just wasting my time, it's been nearly 7months now

Hi iv had the floor up to check we're joists enter the wall, checked plasterboard and found it's not dot and dabbed as should be, spoke to other people on the estate but most have gave up chasing it now, got I touch with labc(local authority budding control) iv now filed a warranty claim which...

Ye that would be nice I'm just hoping someone here might have some ideas as to what the problem might be or if I'm likely to get anywhere