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    Why are some party walls noisy and others not?

    Is looking at the bond a foolproof way to determine if it's double skin? In the loft I can see it's flemish bond so those headers must be going somewhere! Yeah I've got the same, except that also means their bedroom backs onto mine. I've also tried playing music loudly with the speaker facing...
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    Why are some party walls noisy and others not?

    There seems to be a lot of variation in experience with post-war / mid-century houses, I suppose because councils were flinging up homes like no tomorrow and there was a lot of unproven innovation with building methods & materials, but for solid-wall houses (pre-war) I'd expect the experience to...
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    Why are some party walls noisy and others not?

    I've lived in quite a few solid-wall terraced properties in my time, and have just moved into another. I've never had any neighbour noise to speak of coming through the party wall, until now. More strange is that it's only one side - the other side is SILENT, I don't hear a peep even though we...
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