Topic: Acoustiblok and Acoustifence - any experience

[eigenvector]

Does anyone have any experience with these products?  My idea is to use this material, hung from the chainlink fence that separates me from my neighbors - to cut the noise they make.  I don't expect silence, but reducing the stereo volumes would be wonderful.

Question is - does the stuff work for this application?

[BomberMann650]

This stuff?

Seems pretty innovative!  But company website said it took a 12 foot high fence to get a 20db Transmission Loss from a 70db site.

[eigenvector]

20 db is a pretty big reduction in sound.

But really I'm more interested in the fabric - usually you see it hanging from chainlink fences and the like.

And actually - I have a 10 foot high fence, actually I have a 6 ft fence but it's sitting on a 4 foot berm.

[jgger]

Anything like that you put on chain link makes it more susceptible to wind damage. So if you live where you get seasonal high wind maybe not a good idea.

A row of trees works really good, maybe junipers or something simular.

[dave500]

yeah consistantly noisey neighbours will piss you off.

[Duke McDukiedook]

Fight fire with fire- LRAD. 

[eigenvector]

Jgger that's a good point about the wind - we certainly see wind storms every year, but I don't think this will be an issue.  But - I'll talk it out with the fencing company if/when I contact them. 

Regardless, I'll be planting Arborvitae along the fence to further muffle the noise.  I'm guessing with subwoofer noise I'll have to pull out all the stops.

[BPellerine]

I had a noisy neighbor and I got up when he wanted to sleep in the early morning and fed him a 100 watt guitar amp on 10 just making horrible noise,he got the message!haha

[dave500]

an big unmuffled chainsaw goes to 11!fix an orbital sander to the bottom of a large metal pail with a hand full of bolts in it dangling off the ground,then go for a ride for the day.

[vfourfreak]

Sorry to hear of your troubles there Rob. FWIW the legislation here in France regarding nuisance neighbours is very strong. If my neighbours were acting like that, a single visit to the Gendarmerie would suffice to get it resolved. Each household is permitted one day a year to hold a party where they can make as much noise as they like but it is encouraged to forewarn the neighbours and even polite to invite them to join in. After that it's back to best behaviour.

While the legislation is strict here, I believe it to be much more so in Switzerland.

Best of luck

Kev

[eigenvector]

Yeah, sounds nice in France - here in the US noise ordinances are enforced only if the officer feels bored that day.  Otherwise you're just gonna have to deal with it.

I'd like to stay on good terms with these people - they're just having fun, not acting like jerks or anything.  Honestly there's only so much you can do with a subwoofer to quiet them down, by their very nature they are loud and intrusive.

If I can find a way to block the noise or muffle the noise on my end, I'd rather do that then enter a border war with next door neighbors.

[demon78]

First of all Kev is your avatar Terry Thomas ? Secound when they resurfaced the road in front of our place a few years back the road noise jumped by double so I researched trees to plant out in front of the house figuring it would be the answer and after a couple of days found that the consensus for the best sound deflector was the berm it self, as far as trees went there was nothing that deadened the sound very much, I forget how much the various plantings dropped the Dbs but it was going to cost a fortune for trees. So I would look up the sound studies on the net before I spent any coin. Now to help further my house is 300' from the road with a mature maple bush in front between house and road.
Bill the demon.

[vfourfreak]

First of all Kev is your avatar Terry Thomas ?

By jove it is indeed TT, you bounder!

[demon78]

When I was much younger TT was a hero, haven't seen a movie of his in decades.

[vfourfreak]

When I was much younger TT was a hero, haven't seen a movie of his in decades.

I say !!

[demon78]

Haard Cheese
Bill the demon