Reducing the Noise

[Julie-Ann]

I thought this was an appropriate subject for this week with our dancing council workers, neighbours playing Vuvuzelas and looking for any excuse for a party

Here are a few ways you can reduce the noise of your neighbourhood inside your home.
1. Look for gaps where the cold air is coming in. If air can get in so can noise. Look around window and door frames, floors and roof spaces. Silicon can often help to fill some of these gaps. And weatherstripping can help around windows and doors.

2. Install solid-core doors to entries in your home. Add door seals to the bottom of these doors.

3. Install double glazing on your windows. With double glazing it is best to have 2 panes of glass that are different in their thickness and 100mm apart. This is much more than when you install double glazing for heating.

4. For common walls there is an Australian product called Quietwave. It is a 1.2mm thick rubberised membrane between 2 pieces of plasterboard. It will help to substantially reduce the noise from the other side of the wall.

If all this fails- move.

Have you installed any of these measures? Were they to reduce the noise or to keep the cold winter air out?