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Old 14th April 2021, 21:40   #1
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I have spent the last few days putting Dexion racking up in the garage.
Up one wall, across to the other side and half along the facing wall.
Lots more stuff now on shelves but still the garage is full to the door.
Going from a large garage to one about a 3rd of the size has its draw backs.
About 6 ft narrower, 10 feet shorter and then there was a lost space about 2/3 to 3/4 of the floor space. No loft in this garage
I just don't seem to have gained much.

Most of the small items from the floor are on shelves but the big items still take all the floor space.

Only been in temporary accommodation 2 weeks and I cant wait to leave.

kitchen, garage, drive and garden are all too small. Look out the front windows and look into the house opposite, look out the rear windows and look in to the house behind. When all is quiet we can hear the neighbour moving about next door as we are semi detached, I cant even say they are making an unreasonable amount of noise.

I have lived in terraced, semi and detached. Only detached has meant no noise coming through the walls. I wonder if there is any legislation for new housing estates when it comes to the transfer of noise and is the legislation effective?

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Old 15th April 2021, 07:03   #2
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We are in a semi on a busy B road that links 2 main A roads so we have traffic noise,but nothing built directly facing us and the house behind is a reasonable distance away as we both have longer back gardens. As the footpath runs at the top of our drive and there is an industrial estate about 1/4 mile up the road, I keep the front blinds almost shut to prevent people looking straight in to the house, just open enough to let the light in. The same on the conservatory at the back and the kitchen roller blind stays at the halfway mark. No garage but a shed and disused greenhouse which is kind of a second shed.
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Old 15th April 2021, 08:55   #3
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[QUOTE. Only detached has meant no noise coming through the walls. I wonder if there is any legislation for new housing estates when it comes to the transfer of noise and is the legislation effective?

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Having sat on Planning Committees for nearly 20 years, I am afraid I have to confirm that there is no specific guidance on noise from next door neighbours, although there is a power to retrospectively insist on mitigation measures if neighbours are sufficiently inconsiderate - e.g. loud music. It is rarely imposed, and not effective. Sorry.
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Old 15th April 2021, 10:38   #4
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I have lived in terraced, semi and detached. Only detached has meant no noise coming through the walls. I wonder if there is any legislation for new housing estates when it comes to the transfer of noise and is the legislation effective?

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I think the worst is laminate flooring inconsiderately applied to flats above the ground floor. Oh for solid built houses with real bricks and no stud walls.
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Old 15th April 2021, 11:28   #5
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I think the worst is laminate flooring inconsiderately applied to flats above the ground floor. Oh for solid built houses with real bricks and no stud walls.
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Best I keep quiet (excuse the pun).

Immediate post war 3 bed semi, extended.
Double length garage, with separate workshop behind.

46 years of accumulated absolute necessities (all motor and engineering related)

More covered space in mind (not yet announced / discussed, with Jan.)

Yes, I know I'm lucky.

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Old 16th April 2021, 21:48   #7
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Best I keep quiet (excuse the pun).

Immediate post war 3 bed semi, extended.
Double length garage, with separate workshop behind.

46 years of accumulated absolute necessities (all motor and engineering related)

More covered space in mind (not yet announced / discussed, with Jan.)

Yes, I know I'm lucky.

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we are looking at a property that has 2 double garages plus a work shop behind one of them and a single garage . It is 50/50 at the moment if we go the distance but wife has said I can have a new higher roof over one of the double garages for a car lift and a new roof over the workshop if we go all the way.... I wonder what she means, go all the way
It will be down to planning I think for the higher roof but a property down the road got a higher roof on their bungalow.

At the moment I have to work on the drive at the front of the house if I want to do anything to the car and I do, 1 binding brake .


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Old 16th April 2021, 22:08   #8
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Reading the above posts makes me realize how lucky I am to have a garden of 3,000 sq metres. Enough room to park 50 plus cars in the garden.

Also a two story barn of 10 by 20 metres.



PS. One drawback is having over 300 metres of garden wall to paint.
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Old 16th April 2021, 22:18   #9
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Oh for solid built houses with real bricks and no stud walls.
No problem here. Live in one of a row of four stone built cottage about 150 years old. Originally the shift managers houses for the former coal mine now museum next door. Sited on the "old" road about 20 yards off the main road. Nearest other houses are about half a mile in either direction.
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Old 17th April 2021, 08:01   #10
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Reading the above posts makes me realize how lucky I am to have a garden of 3,000 sq metres. Enough room to park 50 plus cars in the garden.

Also a two story barn of 10 by 20 metres.



PS. One drawback is having over 300 metres of garden wall to paint.
i can go off people sometimes
Having lots of space to me is wonderful but from another thread on here some people do not want large gardens. I look at new housing estates and recall my home in London and no way would I buy those houses.

Is your place here or in France? For a lot of people those sorts of places are just out of their price range and for the others... I just wonder how they got to be so rich.


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