A woman has been left at her wits end with a neighbour she shares a thin bedroom wall with.
Although older properties can offer loads of character and charm but they do tend to come with some complications such as prone to damp and thin walls.
One woman has been left fuming as she can hear her 'scary' neighbour cough violently through the bedroom wall, calling the sounds 'hideous'.
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Taking to popular online forum Mumsnet, she wrote: "Did 1930s builders just not bother with anything more than brown paper between the party wall of these houses?
"My NND [next door neighbour] is an a*** of a man and to have to hear his guttural throat clearing through the bedroom wall is hideous. Bear in mind I have had some (basic) sound proofing done, so Lord knows what it would be like if I hadn't.
"It's bad enough I hear him shout at his wife and kids without listening to his horrid bodily functions! Grr. I need to win the lottery so I can move to a detached house."
She added: "I can't approach my neighbour to be honest. He is a bit scary. Plus I can hardly ask him to stop coughing. I could ask him him to stop shouting but that too is a bit tricky.
"If I liked him then the coughing wouldn't really bother me. He clearly can't help it. However because he is horrid it is the cherry on the cake for me. It is really phlegm rattling from the back of the throat stuff that only men can do though. I expect he has a spittoon by his bed.
"I grew up in a 50s semi too. Councîl house. Never heard a thing. Even our old victorian terrace wasn't as bad as this house."
Hundred of people rushed to the comment to send their sympathies, with many sharing their own stories. Although some issued a word of caution to the woman
"Have you wondered what the neighbour might be overhearing you doing?" One warned. Another commented: "If the worst noise you can hear is a cough then you are doing damn well."
One interjected: "I can hear my neighbour snoring in bed! It's horrendous. He moved in about four months ago and I've hardly slept in my own bed since. I feel my privacy is being invaded so I sleep on a blow-up mattress in my son's room."
"I feel very sorry for my neighbours and apologise regularly because as an asthma sufferer when I get a cough I can wake the dead!" One replied. "Luckily the elderly lady next door is lovely and always claims not to hear but as I can hear her tv constantly over mine I suspect she is just being nice!!"
And another added: "1960s here and it didn't improve much. Heaven only knows what they hear from our side!"
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