How To Lessen Noise While Planning A New Home

By Author: Kevin Richard
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There can be nothing worse than hearing the noise of every car that drives across your home, or listening to the stereo of the neighbor when you are trying to read or hear something from the kid’s playroom when you want to watch the news.

So here are some ways of noise control while planning a new home:

1. Keep windows of the noisy side of the house as smaller as possible to lessen the noise.
2. Make the home exterior from dense materials such as brick veneer or stone. They work more efficiently at lessening noise than flat rigid materials such as fiber cement board, plaster or steel cladding.
3. Same type of theory applies to the roofing materials. Metal tiles or lightweight steel permit more noise to enter the home, specifically rain than denser and heavy concrete tiles.
4. To lessen neighbor noise, fences are mandatory. The denser or solid, the better it is. Concrete, brick or dense heavy density foliage hedges work well.
5. Utilize Sound Enclosures or laminated glass to lessen high frequency sound. ...
... For low frequency sound, tempered glass is the most efficient one.
6. Use sound blankets or heavy line drapery to cover the windows. Make sure that they cover the whole width of the window and go straight to the floor.
7. Carpets absorb a tremendous amount of internal noise, specifically in areas such as hallways. On the other hand, use carpet runners or area rugs.
8. Insulate the internal wall cavities where you want to lessen sound transfer with a Noise Control blanket.
9. While using gypsum wallboard linings refer to the manufacturer’s instructions for noise control. There are ways on installing different kinds of wallboard density to lessen sound transference and they can vary depending on the manufacturer and the brand.
10. Use upholstered furniture in your bedrooms and living room or wherever you want to lessen noise. Plastic furniture or solid timber just reflects sound, unlike the upholstered furniture that absorbs a considerable amount of noise.

Make sure you use noise enclosures and follow procedure, legislation, and noise prevention techniques to the letter. You will have to take the responsibility of your own hearing by getting it checked regularly. Wearing any hearing protection properly is important and not only should it be worn, but it should be worn properly always. Even removing your protection for a short span of time can be sufficient to cause any kind of damage.

In a nutshell, the only way to completely eradicate noise in your home is to move somewhere else and leave the children in the city. By thinking before hand before you build a new home, you can lessen the noise in your new home and make it a more unwinding and convenient ambience.