Very loud banging noises coming from roof! Help!
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Comments (11)If your trying to block noises that are in the mid to high range of frequencies such as tire tread on pavement, engine, and air foil noises caused by vehicles wind trail, I'd recommend you look at how the noise is getting to your home. What areas you can hear it most? Do you notice it more when you are in certain rooms, near windows, door jams, out on the back deck, front porch? A lot of mid and high frequency noise penetrates the cracks and crevices between a door and the jam, a window and it's frame. To demonstrate this, try cracking a window just 1/4" and listen to the difference of sound making it's way into your room. When you drive your car and crack the window even a 1/16th of an inch you can tell that a window is rolled down somewhere in the car causing you to reach for the window switch to roll all of them up. For this, Make sure you have basic weatherstrip in those areas, and that they are all tightly closed and latched and listen in those cracks to see if they are the culprit. most highway noise cannot penetrate very well through a solid object, it must come through cracks, holes, and other areas like this. low frequencies are a different animal and often use objects like your walls to resonate their way in your space space. You most likely also have reflective sound traveling from one or many of your neighbor's homes to the next and finally yours, essentially finding a path around the two houses between you and the road and making it to your house. Imagine the sides of the homes and objects around your house as having mirrored faces, if you shine a light from your house at each of these "mirror faces", could you imagine being able to see it from the highway after it bounces around? if so, then plant your hedges, to block those areas....See MorePOLL: Annoying Home Noises?
Comments (156)Worst noise for me is the garbage disposal, and I use it as seldom as possible. I like hearing the ice machine because I like to be reminded that it is working. It seems to stop periodically to take a rest before it starts working again. The previous house (same age as current one) used to creak almost constantly, and it made it seem like it was haunted, perhaps by the previous own who died there, murdered in her front yard....See MoreNeed to reduce noise coming into and out of home office
Comments (16)I'm sorry to say but the doors are part of the problem. The space under the door (between the floor and the bottom of the doors) is also part of the problem. Glass doors are very poor sound insulators. Very poor. You can look at adding a door jam underneath the glass doors. In essence, you will treat the doors as if they are "outside" doors. Weather stripping and door jam can be added. If he insists on glass doors, please go out and source high-end double glazed glass that has 2 different thickness of glazing (eg. 3mm + 4mm). The different thicknesses of glass reduce different sounds = MUCH BETTER acoustic insulation. Solid core doors with proper door jam and 'weather' stripping will be better than glass ever will be. Another option: Adding another layer of 5/8" acoustic drywall on BOTH SIDES of the office walls and repainting. The cost of acoustic drywall = new doors. Lowest cost option: Sound cancelling ear phones = $100 - $200 for a very good set....See MoreNoise like a woodpecker coming from roof vent
Comments (11)You should hear the fox during mating season when I heard it for the 1st time in the middle of the night I thought someone was being killed in my backyard I ran out with a shotgun but nobody was there and the next day I found out it was a fox we have a few of them around here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYYHrG6UC4U Fast forward to the middle of the video, it's a wicked sound....See Moreelklaker
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