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Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home?
An anonymous reader writes: As more and more people live closer together in tightly packed subdivisions, the mental stress of noise becomes a serious issue. Noise nuisance complaints are on the rise, litigation increasing. We try to tune it out, yet the stress it causes is still present, and there's seemingly no way around it." Six months ago a new neighbor moved in next door who has two dogs, one of which barks incessantly with a high pitched yip that is driving my wife crazy and making it difficult for me to read or work on the computer. I've already talked to my neighbor and he will bring the dog inside but three days later it starts again. What is a cost effective technical solution to knock 10 or 20 dB off the exterior noise? soundproof windows, an interior acoustic blanket,a sound blocking fence, a sound absorbing fence, planting foliage or noise cancelling headphones, or something else. I'm sure I'm not the first slashdotter to have this problem. What has worked for you?
Better yet if your neighbor is an asshole who is abusing his dog by not feeding him and keeping him outside then call police and society for the prevention of cruelty to animals
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Aside from the real estate market still being quite soft around the country, moving every time there's too much noise just isn't practical. It's expensive to move even with just getting help paid by pizza and beer.
And the thing is, no matter where you are, you have to deal with leaf blowers and other lawn equipment, motorcycles, people who insist on having car stereos that can be heard a mile away, people who have those loud pickup trucks and of course the dogs that were mentioned.
We live in a narcissistic obnoxious society that has no consideration for others.
Slightly offtopic, but these days when I see a misused word like that, my instict isn't to blame the poster, it's to blame the iOS/Android autocorrect. Especially when using the swype input method, I find it often screws up even straightforward words for their similar counterparts, and while I usually notice it, sometimes one will slip through.
Fuck city dwellers who move to rural areas and then complain about livestock and pets.
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Getting rid of the neighbour is not the solution if the neighbour is doing nothing wrong.
And the corollary, of course: Getting rid of the neighbor is a great solution if they are doing something wrong, like chronically violating the law in a way that prevents you from the peaceful enjoying your premises. "Peaceful enjoyment of the premises" is a legal right in my State that applies to all residences, both homeowners and renters have that right. If the properties have the same owner, you can actually force the landlord to get rid of them.
Lifestyle choice isn't only something you have on the run. Many people desire to make a lifestyle choice when they select the home. Moving when people break the law in a way that impacts your property is not a sustainable, scalable solution the way that making the person breaking the law move is.
If the submitter takes your advice, there will soon be a follow up question "How do I soundproof my prison cell?"
Dogs bark when something is wrong, or when they perceive that something is wrong. Letting your dog keep barking for any length of time (I think 10 minutes is too long in this case) is animal abuse. Either the dog needs something, is afraid of something, or is trying to warn you of something; ignoring it and letting it keep barking is not the answer. So yes, calling the cops over ANIMAL ABUSE is perfectly reasonable and only a narcissistic asshole dog owner would argue otherwise.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Exactly. It doesn't surprise me at all that I'd get a response like that from some narcissistic asshole on Slashdot (of course, from an AC).
In my case, the big problem was all the narcissistic assholes who left their dogs outside in their treeless, grass-less back yards, in Phoenix, in 110-degree heat, all day long. Sounds like animal abuse to me. In my case, after the asshole was convicted in court, he kept his dog inside a lot more (where I could still hear it barking, but I had to be in my back yard and it wasn't that easy to hear it).
Ignoring the needs of your pet is abuse. If your pet needs space to run and execrise so they don't spend all night loudly complaining thet they aren't getting that, then you need to give them that. Not doing so is abuse.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.