Terraced House Puns

I can hear my neighbour laughing, it’s not too loud and I only hear it downstairs, but fuck me sideways, it’s so shit. You can’t be expressive/have fun because you can’t be too loud past 11, and even before that, you can obviously hear everything if you can hear laughing, so my neighbours will definitely know when I’m having sex on top of everything.

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Hey all. My mum died last year and left behind a two bedroom cottage in a quiet village, which I'm currently living in, mostly for insurance reasons while I try and decide what to do.

The house, while in a good location, is in desperate need of upgrading; we are talking about a new kitchen and bathroom, every single room being redecorated, furnished, new floorboards, a rewire - we have a bakelite fusebox from the 1970s 😆... the list goes on and on.

The big issue though is that like a lot of old terraces, we share a side passage with next door, which is on my side, so next door is allowed to bring their bins through our garden to take them out, as well as use for a small limited number of other reasons. And it's been that way since a conveyance made in the 1950s.

Now I know this kind of thing is common in terraced houses, but personally, I hate it. And right now, I am just really caught in two minds what to do.

I don't know whether it's worth spending what would be a lot of money getting house up to spec, only to find that it's either difficult to sell or rent and/or that the price remains suppressed because of it; or just sell it as-is for what would be a cut-price and let a developer deal with it.

I'm going to talk to various estate agents about it soon once house is properly cleared out and get their opinions, but I wondered if anyone here had any experience with trying to sell/let such a property burdened with an easement and whether there were still many buyers/renters who were interested.

It's usually small cars that are the worst for it.

The housing market is absolutely mental. It's actually making Weston Super-mare look appealing lol!

In a year or two I may start thinking about a house. Working in London and looking at the house prices it's clear that terraced is what I'm likely to afford unless I have a filthy rich relative who is about to die (not the case as far as I'm aware).

Maybe I misunderstand, but isn't it a complete lottery in terms of who your neighbours are? How can you make such a big financial decision when the place might end up being very uncomfortable to live in? Even if the neighoburs are good, they might move and rent out the house to someone else who is unbearable (students come to mind, having been a student myself not that long ago).

Do most people just bank on the fact that the majority of other people are nice, understanding and reasonable and check how good the noise insulation is?

I am seriously considering putting an offer in on a house, it needs complete modernisation and am thinking I might as well move the bathroom upstairs using space from the main bedroom.

Is this the best solution, not sure what I would then do with the downstairs bathroom, I think it is an old extension, should I knock it down and extend out to the right for a decent sized dining/kitchen room?

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Hello,

Looking for more storage space but apprehensive of putting any load on the existing joists. Would building a raised sub-frame be a good idea for this space (not sure where it would be supported by, the rafters / party walls / load bearing walls)? There's only 100mm of insulation there currently so hopefully the extra frame could add room for another 170mm or so and then board out on top of that.

Would adding some insulation boards between the rafters be worth it or not seeing as it won't be used as a habitable space?
Thanks,

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Terraced, middle house, England.

The water pressure is really quite poor (coming out all taps and when flushing toilets it needs to be flushed multiple times)

At this rate there is no chance of installing anything such as a rain or monsoon shower where it drops lots of water on you at pressure.

How can I remedy this? Do I speak to the water board to see what they say and can do, or do I have to take matters in my own hands and install the biggest Mother Ducker of Pumps or something?

Thank you!

So I moved into this rented mid terraced property sandwiched between two crazy neighbours. On one side a family with 2 kids where the dad screams from top of his lungs at 6 am to them. And other are a young couple with baby.

You can literally hear everything. The walls are like paper. My dog snores and I've been hearing the young couple through wall complaining. Banging now and then. Passive aggressive grunting. I try everything to stop her to be considerate but it's taking a toll on my own sleep. The snoring isn't even loud. I can sleep over it just fine and I'm not being ignorant saying that it's quite light. I feel pressured to keep my dog from snoring through early hours in morning. And these dumbasses have their bed on the party wall. Where as I'm on the other wall.

So it's okay for these neighbours to have a screaming baby cry most of the night. It's okay for them to bang around. To talk their head off at 4 am. I ignore all this because with Walls being thin it's every day living. But I dare make a sound they moan and complain.

Its extended to both sides banging and moaning if I make a sound even in the day. Both neighbours have not spoke to me and have made things clear.. I now just want out but have to wait because of contract.

I expect some kind of confrontation which I'm dreading. Also both neighbours have now kind of joined forces in their hatred for this noise that is only heard because of poor sound insulation.

With sleep deprivation over this I feel like I'm in hell.

We (filthy EU citizens) have bought our first terraced house in London. We come from a country where people live in flats and this is completely new for us. I already met the next door neighbour and I'm a bit scared of her.

So, what pearls of wisdom about living in a mid terraced house can you pass to us? Are there any hidden protocols about bins and fences that pass from one generation to the next?

Thanks a million

I've recently purchased a terraced house that was built in 1905 and I've had the floor up on the ground floor and there appears to be some rockwool type insulation just stuffed under the boards - i.e. the insulation isn't sitting between the joists nor is it suspended.

I'm just wondering if this is normal or if someone has just shoddily thrown it in there at some point. A friend of mine said it could be reducing the airflow from the airbricks which obviously won't help with damp etc.

There is no basement and there's just one room with a suspended floor and the rest is concrete.

Having a charging point mounted to to your house or inside the garage it’s not really an option in these cases.

What do EV owners do in these circumstances?

Bought a house in December. It’s a detached property and always has been. A simple google search describes it as a terraced house on zoopla and rightmove- pulling this info from the land registry which I cross checked. It may seem pedantic but I don’t want this to be recorded incorrectly. Did my solicitor screw this up? If so how do I go about correcting this error? For the record I have tried to bring this to my solicitors attention via email and I just get ignored. I’ve also tried calling but it just goes to voicemail and when I leave a message, I don’t get called back. Any advice appreciated.

This is in England. At my parents terraced house their neighbours have recently had a new phone line installed from the telephone pole. My parents house is in between the neighbours and the telephone pole. The problem is that this newly installed line cuts directly across my parents upstairs windows about 2-3 feet away from the glass.

My parents ideally would like to have their phone company come back and affix it above the line of sight of the upstairs windows of their house. Is there any law or regulation that concerns this sort of thing?

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Just viewed a nice little terraced property, all was great apart from both neighbours having right of way access to the garden. This is the first time we've come across a terraced property that is situated in the middle with access from both sides.

I'm just wondering how this works. Both neighbours on either side will have access to our garden, but what about their neighbours? If their neighbours are locked in, does that mean they use each others garden to get to mine?

Also, what is the general rule with right of way? Could my neighbours potentially use this access for means other than taking out bins. For example, if somone decides to have works carried out, can I expect to have builders coming and going through my garden?

I read somewhere about a neighbour allowing their kids to use the neighbours right of way as a safer way of gaining access to play outside. If faced with this scenario, would I have to oblige to their kids coming and going through my property as they see fit?

Hi all,

My mum owns an old terraced house (3 bedrooms) that she currently rents out in England. The house is currently leasehold and she pays a small amount in ground-rent every year (I believe less than £5) to the current freehold owner.

The company that invoices my mum for the ground-rent each year has sent a letter and email stating that their client (the current freeholder) is wanting to sell their "freehold interest in the property". They are offering my mum to purchase the freehold for less than £500.

My naive understanding is that it is good to own the freehold of a property as this will also increase the value when my mum decides to sell (please correct me if I'm wrong).

My questions are:

• Is this a no-brainer and should my mum purchase the freehold (she can easily afford the freehold offer amount) and do we need to be aware of anything before making this decision?
• Should we engage a solicitor for something like this?

Thanks in advance.

Do those "Kellern" consist of multiple small rooms or rather one room?

Aside of (seasonal) storage, how is the Keller usually utilized? For example, is it used as laundry room, or are small parties held down there?

Can you show me pics of ordinary basements (so not those Pinterest-perfect ones)

Any more small details are welcome!

Edit: where I live (NL), basements are uncommon.

I mean I heard people calling pre-war appartment buildings in Chinatown brownstone