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high density apartments Light sleeper here. Apartments are a nonstarter for a lot of people, due to poor soundproofing. Unless and until soundproofing gets b
by Teckla 7y ago
high density apartments
Light sleeper here.
Apartments are a nonstarter for a lot of people, due to poor soundproofing.
Unless and until soundproofing gets better -- and I mean a LOT better -- apartments will never be practical for a nontrivial percentage of the population, as much as we might otherwise prefer them.
- decebalus1 7y ago> Unless and until soundproofing gets better -- and I mean a LOT better -- apartments will never be practical for a nontrivial percentage of the population, as much as we might otherwise prefer them. Most likely never going to happen, at least not in the US where apartment buildings are basically wooden matchboxes. I grew up in the well-known gray communist concrete blocks in Eastern Europe and I never heard my upstairs neighbors peeing until I moved to the USA.
- imtringued 7y agoI don't get it. If my neighbours didn't renovate their apartments by drilling holes or hammering on the walls I wouldn't even know that other people besides me live in the same building. Sound proofing isn't going to stop walls from vibrating. Just suck it up. 2 days of noise a year isn't a nonstarter.
- objectivetruth 7y agoHi, let me help you "get" it with some counter anecdata: I've lived in places where I could fully hear spoken conversations of my neighbors. When you live in that situation for a while, hearing advice like "it's JUST 2 days a noise a year" and "Just suck it up" will drive you to a homicidal rage :)
- detaro 7y agoSoundproofing doesn't need to get better. Buildings just need to be built with it. (Annoyingly, retrofitting internal dampening appears to be very difficult, which is a problem)
- Cd00d 7y agoThen you're not in an urban area anyway, which is the place where high density apartments are needed.