[Closed] Ugly detached or nice(ish)looking semidetached

Neighbours at arms length.

ernie + 1

Is the detached house ugly from the inside as that's where you'll see it from most often. It's a bit like worrying about the colour of your car. It's the bit everyone else sees but you hardly ever do. I'd be looking to get myself some space from people.

ernie +2

given your question I suspect you don't know how grinding/depressing having a noisy arsehole twwunnt neighbour can be, and what little help you'll get doing something about it.......

FWIW until about a year ago we lived in a frankly enormous (and freezing) detached house in Germany - then moved back to the UK, struggled to get a mortgage as we had no UK credit history, and so bought a standard victorian mid-terraced cottage.
Admittedly, we've got super neighbours, but our gas bill has dropped from a golden bucket full of diamonds every quarter - to about 6p a year - our house is always toasty warm in the winter - and so I'd never (unless I became rich beyond the dreams of avarice) live in a detached house again.

Detached, without a shadow of a doubt. Being able to hear your neighbour snoring aint fun 🙁

Onza, the house is ok on the inside, nothing a lick of paint wouldnt sort...

gusamc: i well know about pain-in-the-ass neighbours, its half the reason why we are moving... but they cant [i]all[/i] be bad...

Nothing wrong with nursing a semi, so to speak.

I'm in a 1910 mid-terrace. Rarely hear a peep out of the neighbours, who are both nice, and as others say, it's a lot easier to heat.

Deatched, every time.

Get cavity wall heating if your worried about the cost but having no neighbours attached to you is the way forward.

Shared drive set alarm bells ringing for me

Detached and make it look better - turn up your music too.

Heat prob? get some ****ing insulation sorted.

Buy a house in the right place for warmth too.

Detatched, shared driveway is all bad long running source of arguments in my road. luckily Im the only house with a non-shared driveway 😆
Which is good as I own a big yellow van.

We live in a 1920's semi. Shared drive with a complete nutter who wants to beat the crap out of me. Give me an ugly detached newer house any day of the week.
Can't put a price on real boundaries. You don't know who you gonna buy next to or who may move in.

detached everytime. it makes a difference

Detached for me too, cos with my 3 kids I'd be that noisy neighbour 😯

Detached,detached, detached. Much easier to do something (or just live) with an ugly house than put up with with bad neighbours. I'd never buy a semi again.

I'd be more than happy to live in a semi or a terrace again but if I've got a garage as I have now then no way would I want a shared drive

"what's more important, kerb appeal or neighbours at arms length? "

LOL! umm, I'm not sure if you are on the right forum. but, either you have the same daft pisstaking attitude as me, or you are for real. God knows what you poor sods would do if you had to live in the real world!

Will you be spending more time in the house looking out, or more time outside the house looking in?

Choose a house with pretty neighbour's houses and you get to look at theirs at no extra cost. My Dad always used to reckon you were better buying the house you can see the thatched cottage from, than the thatched cottage, if you see what I mean. I have no F*****G idea what my point is anymore.

Will you be spending more time in the house looking out, or more time outside the house looking in?

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+1 Ernie.

We're looking at moving from our terraced house. Absolutely love the house, big garden, massive shed, backing onto fields and big airy rooms. When we moved in the neighbours were great but they defaulted on their mortgage and a young couple moved in with a 9 year old girl. First week they were in they sprayed their fence and covered our conservatory. Then they jetwashed their path, spraying crap all over our porch. Little things and I didn't say anything, just cleaned up.

Our son was born just over a year ago and I had to complain when he started drilling into the shared wall at 9pm. Then all summer they had bbq's in the back garden till 2 am every weekend with karaoke. I complained (in a "would you mind if..." kind of way) again one day when he was mowing the lawn at 11pm. It meant we couldn't have my son's bedroom window open. Then they fitted cheap laminate flooring with no insulation so we could hear every word. Then they self fitted UPVC doors, and every time they went through them they'd slam them shaking our walls. So hard I had to rehang one of our pictures after it came off.

Every Thursday they'd have a party in the house, shouting and screaming kids at 1am and slamming doors. After a few months of this I went round to ask them to stop slamming the doors and he squared up to me, saying how we were always complaining and how we didn't fit in. Now I'm not a little guy so I took a couple of steps forward and he backed down.

I came to work overseas and since they've been very vindictive to my wife, whispering under their breaths when she walks past, slagging her off to mutual friends and a couple of dents in the car, that obviously we can't prove were them. Ciggy butts on the drive way, a couple of plants destroyed and some other things.

Anyway, it turned our dream home into a nightmare, and as soon as I've done over a year in my new job it'll be time to move. It means losing a great mortgage deal (currently 2.5%) and all the things we love about our house, but all this means my missis is in floods of tears when I phone up sometimes.

So yeah, get a detached.

Doing work on the 60s building should be much easier unless you have to wrestle the asbestos monster, surely?

And if you're planning on doing work, you don't want to have to worry about the neighbours too much either.

I would have said semi-detached is fine but everyone here has talked me out of it.

Still go to check out the neighbours though, late night BBQ's in the garden, inconsiderate fence spraying/patio washing can still be an issue. You just don't have to listen to 'bumps in the night' and their dog barking from 6am every morning. In our terrace we can even hear the light switches snapping on and off next door. 1900 terrace. We will probably have the same semi/detached issue when we move as there are a few detached just within our reach.

Dettatched every time. Our nearest neighbour is 500m away and although they are great people it's nice to be peacefully apart,

C

I currently live in a semi with shared access driveway with the rented detached cottage next door, on a couple of occasions it has led to some harsh words with the neighbours as each set of new tenants have to be shown the error of their ways ie do not park in front of my ****ing front door, as an aside it is an eye opener to learn what little common sense some people have.

So I completely agree, keep your neighbours as far away as possible, we are hopefully moving soon and the house we have our eye on is detached with its own parking for up to six cars! Bliss.