How much noise is too much noise and reasonable times.

bouicca21

You are just overthinking things. Chill.

sniggings

HappyMJ wrote: »

I seem to have a very quiet vacuum cleaner in that case.

I can't hear it with the bedroom door closed until the person vacuuming actually approaches the door from the other side and bumps the door.

I've vacuumed with an upright Dyson before and they are very loud so I would recommend anyone in a flat buy a vacuum that is quiet....no more than 70db. A door or a wall can attenuate the noise enough so it sounds quiet to the person on the other side of it. If that's not quiet enough then TV noise is louder than that. Or should I ensure I turn everything off at 8pm and go to bed.

I thought we were working on the premise the vacuuming could be heard by the neighbour!

Clearly if you know it can't then no time of night would be an issue.

My flat is very good for blocking some noises over others, vacuuming is not an issue.

dekaspace

HappyMJ wrote: »

I seem to have a very quiet vacuum cleaner in that case.

I can't hear it with the bedroom door closed until the person vacuuming actually approaches the door from the other side and bumps the door.

I've vacuumed with an upright Dyson before and they are very loud so I would recommend anyone in a flat buy a vacuum that is quiet....no more than 70db. A door or a wall can attenuate the noise enough so it sounds quiet to the person on the other side of it. If that's not quiet enough then TV noise is louder than that. Or should I ensure I turn everything off at 8pm and go to bed.

I think thats part of the problem when hoovering, I have a good VAX that I think makes a hell of a lot of noise when using it but if I leave it on and go into another room I can barely hear it, I have a cheap one that is almost useless just picks up a small amount of dirt and thats it and never crumbs or anything.

So if my hoover sounds muffled but hearable when a door is closed, yet my computer isn't heard at all (I suppose if I stood still and listened for something I could hear something but wouldn't be able to make it out) then its strange unless as the guy said its travelling up/down a hollow wall

Also the extractor fan in my kitchen when its on muffles my tv and computer volume to the point I cant even hear music if its on.

dekaspace

bouicca21 wrote: »

You are just overthinking things. Chill.

Yeah, its just confusing the guy said they can hear the bass of my music (never words) but never mentiioned it, the hoover is more understandable in many ways because that can make a lot of sound

So trying to understand if it really is loud, bad sound insulation/vibration travelling and even if its loud its any worse than everyday noise level.

sniggings

dekaspace wrote: »

Yeah, its just confusing the guy said they can hear the bass of my music (never words) but never mentiioned it, the hoover is more understandable in many ways because that can make a lot of sound

So trying to understand if it really is loud, bad sound insulation/vibration travelling and even if its loud its any worse than everyday noise level.

Some flats are designed to block out different sound frequencies, bass is very hard to block, if he said he could hear it and never complained, then he heard it.

Shutting a car door, a baby crying is not the same as someone playing bass for 5 minutes or how ever long you had it on for.

Not sure why you are comparing the car/baby sounds to your bass, as he never complained about either...you asked he answered.

dekaspace

sniggings wrote: »

Some flats are designed to block out different sound frequencies, bass is very hard to block, if he said he could hear it and never complained, then he heard it.

Shutting a car door, a baby crying is not the same as someone playing bass for 5 minutes or how ever long you had it on for.

Not sure why you are comparing the car/baby sounds to your bass, as he never complained about either...you asked he answered.

The car sounds more than anything are so piercing they can be heard upstairs, whenever I have guests round they are woken by traffic in morning, the previous upstairs tenants were, and all heard the other neighbour go to work that early in morning.

And the other neighbours dog the same, I am such a heavy sleeper as I have depression/anxiety that I have lived above pubs before and been able to sleep but the babys cry was (not every night) piercing enough to shock me out of sleep as is the traffic noise (thats why I sleep in small room at back)

So noise travels differently, the other reason I asked him was the floorboards in the building are very creaky that I worry that people downstairs can hear me as I am up late but he said he never hears that, he also never hears my tv which has a far more powerful bass and speakers than the pc ones which he can somehow hear.

There must be a reason for that.

sniggings

dekaspace wrote: »

There must be a reason for that.

There is, sound frequencies are different.

Insulation different in different parts of the flat.

It couldn't have been that bad as he never told you about it.

dekaspace

sniggings wrote: »

There is, sound frequencies are different.

Insulation different in different parts of the flat.

It couldn't have been that bad as he never told you about it.

Which is the point, previous tenants said they heard nothing despite me asking multiple times just in case,

But hollow wall sounds likely as from what I was told from someone who was a child in the 1960s when these flats were built and lived in area their entire life that there used to be fireplaces until 20 years ago that were covered, which just happens to be the wall where my pc is against.(well a foot from)

Can't remember when he moved in now, I think it was early Feb and even when talking to me then he never mentioned noise it was only when I mentioned did he hear anything as I can't tell how thick the walls are did he tell me he heard hoovering, and he heard bass in living room (but never said it was a problem) and even then the bass was only in evening,

But then if he can hear bass at all is it because of volume or vibration?

sniggings

dekaspace wrote: »

But then if he can hear bass at all is it because of volume or vibration?

Volume more likely...it's not so much the volume alone, but the frequency of the bass, if the bass has a very low frequency, you could have the volume down low, but the sound will still travel, think of an elephant, they make a very low sound and it travels far miles, stand next to it and you'l heard not much.

As said bass is different to other sounds, it can be low and be heard streets away, I've heard concerts in my area, near to them not much noise, a couple of miles away the bass was loud and thumping

dekaspace

I have the setting on my audio software to control dynamic range, wonder if thats it as when its turned off everything sounds louder to me.