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Appliances are least concern in city. To me most noise comes from cars and motorcycles. This area seems really underegulated, basically anyone can annoy a lot o
by montzark 5y ago
Appliances are least concern in city. To me most noise comes from cars and motorcycles. This area seems really underegulated, basically anyone can annoy a lot of people at once by making exhaust louder to establish I don't even know what?
Semi-joke: Anyone can do it, just drill holes to exhaust before muffler. I thought that maybe I should do that, like annoy so much people that something would be done in regarding this.
- ketamine__ 5y agoSomething might be done by me. To your car. ;)
- jbverschoor 5y agoThe only thing that makes noise here is: - fab in the bathroom - fridge sometimes, it’s old - the washing machine - heating thing when you use warm water No fans nothing. Loving my m1
- sgt 5y agoWhat is the "heating thing when you use warm water"? Aren't water heaters quiet since they constantly boil the water?
- moreati 5y agoIn the UK most homes don't have a hot water tank. We have a wall mounted gas boiler, that heats water on demand. These are often located in the kitchen.
- KineticLensman 5y ago> These are often located in the kitchen Also, traditionally, in an 'airing cupboard': a space where washed clothes 'air' before being put in drawers. There is a lot of variation.
- bananapear 5y agoNew builds in the last 10-15 years now typically have “unvented” systems - you still have the combi boiler unit but instead of heating on demand, it circulates hot water through a coil in a mains-pressurised insulated tank. The advantage of this is that cold and hot water are both at the same pressure, and you don’t have to wait for the combi to kick in once you open the tap.
- carlhjerpe 5y agoI've never met anyone in Sweden burning anything that isn't wood to heat things in their home (except the district heating, which burns our sorted trash) in a central location. And the people burning wood usually only do it during the winter months when it's really chilly outside, else it's heat pumps or electric.
- rwmj 5y ago"Combi boiler" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankless_water_heating#Combination_boilers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankless_water_heating#Combina...). Are these not common elsewhere in the world? We got rid of our old tank and central heating system and replaced it with a combi a few years ago. We simultaneously gained lots of extra space - a whole walk-in cupboard and a lot of loft space - while gaining a new device which requires hundreds of pounds of replacement parts every year. Really the most unreliable of technologies, but also very convenient when it's working.
- jbverschoor 5y agoHere it’s common to have a combination of hot water and heating. Sometimes with a boiler. But in general it’s on-demand gas heating
- natch 5y agofab? m1? For fab, Google says: > British an expression of agreement to, or acknowledgment of, a command m1 is a carbine, ok no surprise that makes noise, but in the house?
- atonse 5y agoMy guess is fab = fan? (n and b keys next to each other on the keyboard, and our bathroom fan is also loud). M1 = apple’s new m1 microchip that is the brains of their new machines. It never gets hot since it was designed for phones, so it doesn’t need a fan to cool it like Intel chips.
- jbverschoor 5y agoYeah. Fan No fab at home either though
- elric 5y agoI don't know where you live, but most places have regulations regarding how loud vehicles can be. Maybe that doesn't apply where you are?
- Faaak 5y agoGenerally these regulations are not enforced though..
- elric 5y agoThey're not? Over here, periodic car inspections are mandatory. New car models can't be sold until they've been checked and found to be compliant with various regulations, presumably including loudness. I guess there will always be "car enthusiasts" who think that LoUD pIpEs sAvE LiVeS (they don't), but I don't see/hear heavily tuned cars anywhere near as often as in the early 2000s.
- sokoloff 5y agoWe have annual safety inspections here (US-MA). Those also connect up to the OBD2 port (if equipped) to verify no emissions-related fault codes. In my younger days, I had a heavily modified car that was no problem to get to pass, despite numerous possible non-compliance items.
- buran77 5y agoMany people just revert the modifications in order to pass the regular inspection. And enforcing is hard logistically because the Police should be able to detect and confirm such cases. Which means personnel, training, equipment, and a lot of time taken away from other duties. This won't deter anyone from tearing up the asphalt in an area that appears to have no police around.
- Faaak 5y agoIn France, for example, car inspections are mandatory. Motorcycle's are not. Here's part of your problem.
- murrayhenson 5y agoAgreed! My wife and I are building a home at the moment and, when it came time to consider appliances, noise of a given appliance was a factor and something we took into consideration. For example, we chose a very quiet vent hood to go over the hob/stovetop since it's an open plan kitchen/living area. Vent hoods can be very noisy (65+ dB) when running maximum. However, given that there are tractors in fields nearby, dogs, chickens, and other "sounds of rural life" ... we made sure to put in a LOT of insulation and also went for triple-paned windows. While the house isn't yet complete, we hear almost no outside sounds when we are inside. When we compare that to our current location - on a side street, but a moderately busy one - with sometimes couriers on loud motorcycles, lorries, police/fire vehicles (sirens), and the occasional person with a car that has an exhaust tuned to be loud ...the difference is really quite remarkable.
- adamcstephens 5y agoCars are loud even if the owner hasn’t made the exhaust louder. Just the sound of tires on pavement, when multiplied across a dozen or more cars, can be quite loud.
- IshKebab 5y agoThis is true, but a motorbike or a chav car is 10 times louder than a Tesla. If it were only the sound of tyres then road noise wouldn't be remotely as bad as it is. I can't wait for the day when petrol motorbikes are banned! (Assuming I am still alive.)
- tyjaksn 5y agoI don’t think it would be fair to ban all motorbikes. It’s only certain types bikes, generally choppers (e.g. Harley Davidsons), crotch rockets and dirt bikes that are loud. Most of the other types are fairly quiet. Although the type of bike probably matters much less than who owns it—-I had a crotch rocket for a while and you couldn’t even hear it a block away.
- FriedrichN 5y agoEspecially those driving their Honda Civics with the special BRAAAAP exhausts when they accelerate in my street just after the speed bump only to then jump on the squeaky brakes for the stop sign a few meters further. That really annoys me.
- sandworm101 5y ago>> just after the speed bump only to then jump on the squeaky brakes for the stop sign a few meters further. Speed bumps and stops signs annoy me too. Get rid of those, reduce the unnecessary acceleration/braking, and such cars should sail by quietly.
- carlhjerpe 5y agohttps://files.edeva.se/brochures/english/evaluation_lkpg_en.pdf https://files.edeva.se/brochures/english/evaluation_lkpg_en.... I wouldn't say stop signs are bad, they're put there for a reason. Speed bumps however force you to slow down way below the allowed speed, then while you're on the pedal you might just accelerat back to whatever speed. The actibump in Linköping, Sweden solves this by only being in the way if you drive too fast. Used to live next to one of these, worked like a charm.
- burntoutfire 5y agoFor some reason the US is completely in love with the stop signs in places. They are very frequently used in places where European countries would just put the "yield" sign.
- carlhjerpe 5y agoI feel bad that my first thought is because it's easier for the cops to fill their ticket quota with stop signs in stupid places people would probably ignore.
- actually_a_dog 5y ago
- SKCarr 5y agoWorking from home last fall, by far the biggest source of noise was leaf blowers. So loud and so constant. It was impossible to work without noise cancelling headphones during the day. The name "The Devil's Hair Dryer" is very appropriate.
- nicolaslem 5y agoAnd their two-stroke engines are a big source of particulate in the air.
- triceratops 5y agoI have an irrational hatred of leaf blowers. Are they even significantly more efficient than a rake?
- QuercusMax 5y agoThey're very effective at blowing around clouds of dust and removing topsoil from yards and gardens here in CA.
- iJohnDoe 5y agoI’m so glad that someone else is aware of this. Not many people realize that leaf blowers remove a ton of top soil from grass and tree roots. It does a ton of damage to so many plants. All those exposed roots we often see should not be exposed that way. The commercial lawn and tree trimming in Southern California is almost criminal what they do in the name of “landscape maintenance”.
- QuercusMax 5y agoWe rented a house for several years, and the summer we moved in we told the landlord that the sprinkler system wasn't working right, and we wouldn't be using it to water the lawn. The yard guys our landlord hired proceeded to blow all the topsoil off the yard that summer, and even when I tried to re-seed the lawn, it was impossible because they'd just come by every week and blow everything around. One time we were cooling off a birthday cake outside when the yard guys came and it almost got covered with dust when they arrived unannounced on a day they didn't normally come. Leaf blowers are awful, noisy, and mostly don't do anything useful - unless you're ACTUALLY moving around fallen leaves.
- andrepd 5y agoIt's absurd to me that a person on a motorcycle is allowed to literally inconvenience thousands of people just by passing through a street, so much that one has to pause a conversation for 5-10 seconds while the fucker passes.