If you live in a duplex or row house...

[Anonymous]

I live in a foxhall village row house built in 1927. We can hear occasional loud music, doors closing loudly, and other random loud noises. It's not too bad, but it is more than we heard in our 1980s built condo in the West End.

[Anonymous]

I live in a brick rowhouse built in the 1960s with neighbors to one side and behind us. I've never heard anything from adjacent units but sound travels like crazy from people on the path outside the unit...even though the bedroom is on the 3rd floor it's like folks are talking directly through the windows!

[Anonymous]

I live in a rowhouse built in 1953 and my neighbor has been hammering on the walls the entire time I have lived there. I call the police but they dont do anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a rowhouse built in 1953 and my neighbor has been hammering on the walls the entire time I have lived there. I call the police but they dont do anything

Unless your neighbor is making noise after 10pm, the police can't do anything because they're not breaking any laws.

[Anonymous]

We live in a 100+ yr old rowhouse in DC. I have never heard anything from either neighbor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in a rowhouse, and can hear loud running up the stairs once in a while, but rarely anything else. The most noise we hear happens outside -- neighbor playing radio while washing the car, etc.

+1

[Anonymous]

glover park row house. can hear neighbors. not everything but can hear...

[Anonymous]

Live in a 1970 duplex in Alexandria with a cinder block firewall. Don't hear anything from the other side except, very rarely, from the upstairs bathrooms which are along the firewall.

[Anonymous]

Hope you like the sound of leaf blowers. We live in the 'burbs and between the landscaping crews and the homeowners who do yard work after work, we have no peace and quiet from dawn to dark from the first snow melt to the first snowfall.

[Anonymous]

We lived in a duplex and the lady next door pounded on the wall when we closed the microwave!

[Anonymous]

We lived in a 1920s rowhouse in the middle of a DC block and there was a ton of loud noise at all hours when one of the adjacent rowhouses was rented to a group of inconsiderate kids just out of college. We'd ask them to quiet down after midnight so they wouldn't wake up our baby and they'd just blow us off. We ended up calling the police on several occasions. We never heard any noise from our neighbors on the other side. So it's really the luck of the draw. You can't assume the noise won't be an issue.

[Anonymous]

50's brick duplex. Yes, we hear stair walking, doors closings, heels on hardwoods, and unfortunately the latest people are fighters and we hear that. Lived here for 15 years, never the problems we have now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in a rowhouse, and can hear loud running up the stairs once in a while, but rarely anything else. The most noise we hear happens outside -- neighbor playing radio while washing the car, etc.

Ditto for me in every rowhouse I've lived in in DC.

[Anonymous]

40s brick duplex in South Arlington, we'd hear the neighbors fighting all the time, they liked putting up the music loud too. Every stereotype of Section 8 renters was fulfilled.

[Anonymous]

10:57 again.

A lot depends on your sensitivity to noise and different kinds of noise, and the amount of your commitment to a lifestyle.

Leaf blowers are background noise to me, but there's people who'll flip out over that but be really be fine with a little 1am screaming next door if it means a Walkscore of 95 and a 5-10 minute commute.