Living next to a busy road
- Thread starter koolpc
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I agree. The road is 30mph limit. Dual carriageway too. Traffic lights hundred yards from the house.
My Ex's father still lives there. He's been living there for 50 years now! I not been there for a few years though.
Road noise from a dual carriageway would be pretty awful. I don't like the noise I can hear here a mile+ away from the main road.
Personally I don't even bother looking at houses that are next to busy roads. Now I'm living in rural areas.
I have lived in various cities that are very noisy including West London right underneath Heathrow approach and you do get used to the ambient noise levels. Only you can answer the question really.
Personally I don't even bother looking at houses that are next to busy roads. Now I'm living in rural areas.
I have lived in various cities that are very noisy including West London right underneath Heathrow approach and you do get used to the ambient noise levels. Only you can answer the question really.
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Also consider if you have pets, I.e cats you’re increasing the risk of them being killed.
when I was commuting via coach into work in the A2, which at sections are dotted with houses only meters away, i find it odd people would live there, and surely the value of the property would be less as a result.
when I was commuting via coach into work in the A2, which at sections are dotted with houses only meters away, i find it odd people would live there, and surely the value of the property would be less as a result.
Its not for me guys. See my opening post.
Its my work colleague. She desperate for a house with her partner. They been searching for over a year or so.
Its my work colleague. She desperate for a house with her partner. They been searching for over a year or so.
Give it 6 months, there will be quite a few on the market if repossessions start happening.
The honeymoon period of a new home with partner will wear off. She'd be better waiting. What doesn't annoy her friend may really annoy her.
Soldato
Pretty much this but replace roundabout with fixed speed camera. So we will get rudeboya driving up and down the road at all hours gunning it until they get to the 30mph limit camera or gunning it straight after. Also the ambos and fuzz love to only start their sirens right outside our block of flats too.
Also all the trucks go zooming up and down hitting every pot hole and drain going that make horrendous noises all through the night.
Plus all the car pollution as in peak times its queued up from top end of road to the bottom.
Don't do it.
Soldato
Nope. Not being able to have your windows open in the summer due to all the rude bois with their brap brap exhausts and the bikers who think it acceptable to do 100+ at 3am gets old very quickly...
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We live on a main road. I'd say about 4 car lengths from the road itself.
It's never bothered us. I was initially a bit worried but don't really hear anything. If sleeping in the front room you hear lorries but cars aren't really noticeable.
We spend most of our time in rooms at the back of the house and it's silent. Although to be honest we can happily watch TV in front room with no distraction unless the windows are wide open.
Being on dual carriageway might be different mind. Ours is a 30 transitioning to 50.
It's never bothered us. I was initially a bit worried but don't really hear anything. If sleeping in the front room you hear lorries but cars aren't really noticeable.
We spend most of our time in rooms at the back of the house and it's silent. Although to be honest we can happily watch TV in front room with no distraction unless the windows are wide open.
Being on dual carriageway might be different mind. Ours is a 30 transitioning to 50.
I guess it all depends on the road and the traffic then.
I've done it, got used to it, but now moved away would never do it again through choice.
Ours was the A406 in London in a section where it reduces to a single carriageway 30mph. The house was a large victorian single glazed sash windowed type. The pollution is a real issue with black matter coming through the windows. You get used to the constant noise but it becomes unpleasant. In summer when you needed airflow it was pointless trying to watch TV if the window was open. When traffic was flowing the windows would rattle when hgv's trundled past. You'd instantly notice the change in noise when traffic backed up of standing engine noise - which was frequent. Fortunately bedroom's were at the rear but being the 406 traffic doesn't stop because its nighttime. As its a red route roadworks would only happen during sleeping hours and they were a pita.
Our biggest pet hate from that time was getting the car out the drive. Without exaggeration we could sit there 5 minutes trying to pull out Many times if wanting to turn right out the drive I would turn left and do a loop around the block. It was equally frustrating trying to turn right into the drive with the onslaught of opposite flowing traffic. Londoners aren't amongst the politest of drivers wanting to stop to allow you to pull in.
Now were away from that no fancy house pulling at the heart strings would ever entice us back again. Never.
Ours was the A406 in London in a section where it reduces to a single carriageway 30mph. The house was a large victorian single glazed sash windowed type. The pollution is a real issue with black matter coming through the windows. You get used to the constant noise but it becomes unpleasant. In summer when you needed airflow it was pointless trying to watch TV if the window was open. When traffic was flowing the windows would rattle when hgv's trundled past. You'd instantly notice the change in noise when traffic backed up of standing engine noise - which was frequent. Fortunately bedroom's were at the rear but being the 406 traffic doesn't stop because its nighttime. As its a red route roadworks would only happen during sleeping hours and they were a pita.
Our biggest pet hate from that time was getting the car out the drive. Without exaggeration we could sit there 5 minutes trying to pull out Many times if wanting to turn right out the drive I would turn left and do a loop around the block. It was equally frustrating trying to turn right into the drive with the onslaught of opposite flowing traffic. Londoners aren't amongst the politest of drivers wanting to stop to allow you to pull in.
Now were away from that no fancy house pulling at the heart strings would ever entice us back again. Never.
Soldato
I live 20 meters away from the A102 as it heads into blackwall tunnel from Kent (3m to blackwall tunnel). This road is always busy and having lived here for almost 35 years I can say with certainty that double glazing helps with the majority, but even during summer when I have windows open all over the place it really doesnt both - the odd annoying loud bike or beeping vehicle, but generally you just dont notice it.
And have never noticed soot etc entering the house and sticking to the walls as a result of the road being there.
And have never noticed soot etc entering the house and sticking to the walls as a result of the road being there.