Help with soundproofing a wall

asharon

DKLS wrote:

I had an elderly neighbour, who always had the telly up loud, turned out he sufferered from schizophenia, and he used to turn the telly up to drown out the voices, I bought him a set of cheap headphones, and told him to use them as loud as he liked whenever he ehard the voices.
Lovely chap, he did and I never had a problem again.

don't know why but that made me smile, in a nice way, thanks.

phatbhoy

Try getting your local council environmental health dept to help. They can advise/instruct the neighbour on things she can/must do to keep the noise down - headphones teletext hearing loops etc.

Soundproofing your home is one for the experts - it is very expensive and should be a last resort.

roswell

As you rent your landlord may not take to nicely to you nailing some plasterboard to his walls ...

Id suggest inviting your neighbour round when she is making this noise maybe then she will understand if not then contact enviromental health

mrs_baggins

environmental health can help to a point. what would usually happen is records would be mmade over a 2 week period , then after they have them back they may decide to put special recording equipment in which you operate yourself. After they listen to the tapes they decide on firther action. However, if it goes to court the only option really open to them would be to seize the tv equipment and i cant imagine a council would want that bad press. If the person is willing to co-operate a limiter can be put onto the tv set so it cannot be turned up past a certain volume. I dont know how much this would cost tho, and it may depend on the age of the television as well.

If the person is fairly ok why dont you offer for her to come to your house when her tv is on at the usual level and see if she can hear it in your house? If she has children try to contact them to get them involved as well.

asharon

the problem is she once set it at a louder volume than she says she normally listens to. She came round and could just hear it. But she listens to it louder. The other day I was round and said I could still hear it, she turned it on after saying it was on quietly and it was very loud.

never_enough

How about getting some headphones for you? Then you can watch tv undisturbed? You can get cordless ones (so you don't do what I did & almost strangle myself when you decide to go out of the room forgetting you're wearing them... ) Or try moving the tv to another room? Or even just move the furniture around so that you're sitting in a differant place, may make her tv less of an issue? Or ask her to move her tv to the other side of her room?