New built house vibrating

dret

House vibrating when heavy goods vehicles go past

ruggedtoast

Do your neighbours also vibrate or suffer from unwanted trembling?

Southend1

It's no surprise that a house on a busy road vibrates when large vehicles go past! Sounds like you've had the property looked at and there's no defect. I guess chalk it up to experience, try to sell up and find somewhere else or just live with it.

G_M

Think of the saving on batteries though.

dirty_magic

Sorry but it sounds like it's the location more than an issue with the house itself! I don't think you're going to get very far with this.

LandyAndy

I agree with the other posters. It's normal for buildings to vibrate when heavy traffic passes. We get HGVs passing occasionally and you can feel it. So, sadly, it's a case of put up with it or move.

The_Negotiator

Why not get a vibration specialist to measure the vibration levels and compare these with relevant standards?

comeandgo

In my area the houses all vibrate slightly when the trains pass. We are forever straightening the pictures on the walls.

davidmcn

Building regulations require some measures to insulate against noise and vibration, but unless you can find a breach of those then I can't see what legal remedies you'd have. Even a new building isn't going to be magically cushioned against all vibration from traffic.

Lord_Baltimore

This will not be the advice you want to hear but......if you cannot live with the vibration, you have to move.

Any other 'solution' will not work and in the process your nerves will shred. Sorry.

princeofpounds

I feel for you, having experienced traffic vibration before whilst trying to sleep.

How is the vibration being transmitted? It is air-based or ground-based? If ground-based, where does it 'feel' it is coming from? Which parts of the house are affected?

There are potentially mitigation measures available, although it is hard to know what to suggest specifically without being an expert.

You are right to suggest that the road roughness may be the major source. Typically vibrations are caused by pothole impacts and HGV suspensions provide the oscillation, and your observations that it is HGV-linked to point to this as the problem. It appears that this resonates somehow to your building, probably through the earth. So addressing the source is one important technique.

Next you want to focus on the transmission through the earth. One thing that might help is introducing layers of materials with different acoustic properties. Vibration gets partially reflected from interfaces and finds it hard to pass through certain materials. You will have to dig a narrow trench, it may need to be deep, and it's hard to predict how well it will work (traffic vibrations can penetrate deeply but it may only be coming through certain layers of the earth). But it could also make a big difference.

Then you want to focus on the house itself. I am willing to bet that being a new build there are parts of it that are cardboard-like in construction. You want to achieve as much damping as possible, so mass is your friend, as is anything which changes the resonant frequency of your structure.

You might want to look at adding concrete to the floors, introducing airspaces with raised flooring, acoustic glazing, acoustic insulation etc. Depends where it is coming from (there is always a 'weak point' material/object through which the majority of transmission will occur through).
There are a whole bunch of regulations around noise and vibration but it's a bit of a forest of bureaucracy. Some apply at different stages - planning, construction, residence, and to different levels. But I would try and track down your local council's policy on these matters as a start. It will look something like this:

http://www.waverley.gov.uk/planningdocs/wa20080788/Chp%2014-0_%20Noise%20and%20Vibration.pdf

Also double-check the various NHBC standards and do your own tests if necessary.

http://www.nhbc.co.uk/ProductsandServices/ConsultancyandTesting/Acousticservices/documents/filedownload,44449,en.pdf