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You can puts ducts in a soffit so they don't necessarily need to be inside the walls. I've lived in two apartments with ducts inside soffits. Both were still ve
by rcme 4y ago
You can puts ducts in a soffit so they don't necessarily need to be inside the walls. I've lived in two apartments with ducts inside soffits. Both were still very loud.
- scythe 4y agoA soffit must necessarily pass through the wall. Unless it is well-designed, it could cause the same problem.
- rcme 4y agoIt passes though a wall, but not necessarily a wall you'd share with a neighbor typically. For instance, in my apartment we had an in-unit air handler with soffits running long the ceiling. We could hear every step on neighbors made. Most building codes require fire separation between units, so you generally wouldn't have duct work running through walls like that as it'd be a path for fire to spread.
- scythe 4y agoHow old was the building? Currently I'm in a noisy building — it was built in 1890, before rock wool was invented, to say nothing of fiberglass. It definitely tracks that floors tend to be worse than walls (especially bad with Euclidean zoning that encourages low ceilings and thin platforms).
- rcme 4y agoThe building was built in the 90s. Ultimately, the construction was very cheap.