[MeowMeowMeowMeow]

I'm probably going to sound a little crazy here but oh well, I can't STAND any kind of snoring noise when i'm going to sleep and i've heard from some of my friends already at uni that they have problems sleeping due to the slimness of the walls between bedrooms and can hear the student in the room next door snoring!
This is actually enough to put me off living in halls, i've been offered a place in these halls and I was wondering if anyone who has been in these calls can say whether or not you can hear snoring through the walls?
This question probably sounds really stupid but its a weirdly big deal to me.
Thank you so much to anyone who can help!

[llacerta]

Snoring is probably not what you should be worried about when it comes to noise in halls, haha.

When I lived in Tuke, I thought the soundproofing was reasonable. If a few people were having a conversation in the room next door to me, I couldn't hear it. Nor could I hear their alarms going off in the morning or their TVs or anything like that.

Obviously when it comes to particularly loud music the sound will travel, and I found that the main problem was not the walls but the doors- if someone is playing music and they leave their door open, and say their room is opposite yours, you're much more likely to hear it. Similarly, if you're in the hallway and, for example, your flatmate is having sex, very loud sex in fact, actually, INCREDIBLY loud sex, then you're likely to hear it through their door. Particularly if you press your ear up against it, or maybe a cup.

Also, which floor are you on? If you're at the top that's great, but if you have people living above you that's likely to be your main source of noise. I don't know what the students in the flat above us were doing, but the strange banging noises they used to make at weird hours were, um, interesting.

I apologise if you genuinely wanted to only enquire about snoring, though, as I really have no idea when it comes to that, having lived in an almost all-girl flat in which, if anyone did snore, no-one would have admitted to it, and I didn't hear anything anyway. The one guy who lived with us probably snored like a donkey but no-one complained so on the snoring front you're probably safe.

[themadone]

(Original post by llacerta)
Similarly, if you're in the hallway and, for example, your flatmate is having sex, very loud sex in fact, actually, INCREDIBLY loud sex, then you're likely to hear it through their door. Particularly if you press your ear up against it, or maybe a cup.

And you used to listen at your flatmates' doors often...?

I don't know what the students in the flat above us were doing, but the strange banging noises they used to make at weird hours were, um, interesting.

You should have taken your cup upstairs to listen to their doors too?

[llacerta]

(Original post by themadone)
And you used to listen at your flatmates' doors often...?

To be fair, most of the time a cup wasn't needed to hear those kinds of noises.

[Hillbilly101]

(Original post by MeowMeowMeowMeow)
I'm probably going to sound a little crazy here but oh well, I can't STAND any kind of snoring noise when i'm going to sleep and i've heard from some of my friends already at uni that they have problems sleeping due to the slimness of the walls between bedrooms and can hear the student in the room next door snoring!
This is actually enough to put me off living in halls, i've been offered a place in these halls and I was wondering if anyone who has been in these calls can say whether or not you can hear snoring through the walls?
This question probably sounds really stupid but its a weirdly big deal to me.
Thank you so much to anyone who can help!

This made me smile ! I'm hoping I have relatively quiet flatmates...

[gm15]

I've lived in a house with a rather rotund housemate who snored loudly. That house wasn't exactly soundproofed and I slept through it. I'm sure a modern hall has some soundproofing - op will be fine.

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my U20i

[lareneg]

The walls between rooms are thick. It's the doors that the noise travels through; I seem to remember hearing more from the person in the room opposite mine than the one next to mine when I was in Wedderburn.