Keeping out city sounds Shhhhhhh: Five natural ways to create noise barriers Final Edition
A fence is certainly the first barrier for blocking noise. But not any fence. Build a two metre (six-foot) high fence and not a five-foot fence. Most adults are over 5 feet tall and you don't want your ears extending above the height of the fence. Even more important is the construction of the...
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| Published in | Calgary herald |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Calgary, Alta
Postmedia Network Inc
08.07.2005
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | A fence is certainly the first barrier for blocking noise. But not any fence. Build a two metre (six-foot) high fence and not a five-foot fence. Most adults are over 5 feet tall and you don't want your ears extending above the height of the fence. Even more important is the construction of the fence. We all know that closing a bedroom door blocks out the sounds of a television playing in the house. A fence is no different. If a fence has open spaces it's like an open door and not effective at blocking noise. It's not sufficient to butt boards up together when building a fence to get maximum sound blockage. Fence boards, especially those of pressure- treated wood, will shrink up to a quarter inch in width. Two of these boards butted together will eventually leave a half-inch gap for noise to waltz through. A more sound-efficient solution is to overlap the boards an inch on either side to prevent gaps as the boards shrink over time. |
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| ISSN: | 0828-1815 |