How thin are your walls?

[mefordis]

Can you hear others in your house as they are talking loudly, banging pots and pans, and doing other things?

We have all hard wood floors, which I know causes the noise to travel, and some rooms are worse than others (bedroom on the other side of the kitchen). Plus we live in a ranch which I think makes it worse. Having rooms upstairs I think insulates against sound better.

My husband says many houses are like this. What's yours like?

 

[TippyThomas]

I'm the only one in my house so I have no idea.

 

[mjkacmom]

Our house is 100 years old with plaster walls, all of the doors are solid chestnut, 3 floors and a basement, hate calling the kids down for dinner.

 

[Kittyblue]

I have tile floors, high ceilings, and an open floor plan. In the front part of the house (office/kitchen/living room) you can easily hear what's going on the next room. It's not so bad in the bedrooms with the doors closed, though.

 

[mefordis]

Our house is 100 years old with plaster walls, all of the doors are solid chestnut, 3 floors and a basement, hate calling the kids down for dinner.

Texting works.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

It's not that the walls are thin, it's the vents all interconnected. I'm on the second floor and I can clearly hear sounds from the kitchen and the washing machine running in the basement.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Our 1st floor is all open concept except the laundry room and obviously bathroom. Second floor has an open loft area to the hallway with 2 bedrooms so you can hear what’s going on everywhere.

 

[mjkacmom]

Texting works.

I do that often!

 

[neverlandsky]

Depend on the house and floorplan. When we had an energy efficient home cir. 2009 two story 1652 sq. ft. with split 2 bedrooms from the main bedroom it was quiet. House now upgraded insulation cir. 2019 one story 1550 sq. ft. bedrooms all in a row we hear everything including our next door neighbors.

In apartments, when we had top floor units, bedrooms split, it was super quiet. Bottom floor units with bedrooms next to each other, super loud.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Unless you order it while the house is being built, your house likely doesn't have any insulation in the interior walls and thus you'll hear pretty much anything from the adjacent room and any room it is open to. We have R-11 between the living room and the retreat suite. It's a 17 foot wall which is 12 feet high and only cost us $200 Just look at the layout and determine what walls you might want some in. If you're going to pay all that money for a new house, what's a couple of hundred? One of the best $200 I've ever spent.

 

[usnuzuloose]

I am in a triplex, so there is only one connected to me. I hear people go up and down the stairs, or if I hear slamming of closet doors.

 

[fla4fun]

If I am downstairs and someone knocks on the door upstairs, I won’t hear them. I typically don’t hear the doorbell downstairs either. If I have the tv on in the living room, you don’t hear it downstairs either. I am more likely to hear the neighbors outside than a sound in another part of the house.