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You're woken up easily. Makes me wonder if my Subaru with loud pipes wakes people up.
It does. As a courtesy to my neighbours with my loud subaru I cut the engine and roll down the street when I come home late at night.
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Many newer washers and dryers can be configured not to make a noise at the end of the cycle. (Of course they will make some noise when running, but I assume that's not what you're talking about.)
That would be perfect.. still unfortunate for renters stuck around less configurable appliance models
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I used to sleep with earplugs very nicely until I got an ear infection and the doctor told me to lay off them. So I bought a bluetooth speaker that can play files off a SD card, and loaded it up with a 1 hour rain sounds file and play that in a loop as white noise when I sleep. Feels better as my brain can focus on the soothing sounds of the rain instead of the thoughts that sometimes creep up in the silence of the e…
You should throw away the earplugs every few days. Or, you could use soft silicone putty earplugs, and sterilize them during the day.
> Thallikar took his campaign to his homeowners’ association and to his neighbors. The response was tepid, though he did persuade one person to email the city.
Which makes it seem like it's just the personal bugaboo of one person rather than a serious problem, and having read far too many words already I just want to give up.
Where were the editors for this piece?
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That would be perfect.. still unfortunate for renters stuck around less configurable appliance models
How is being a renter relevant? If the appliance has a beep that can be turned off, the renter can turn it off as easily as the owner. Just find the user manual for the appliance online.
If it doesn't, you're out of luck
For me the trigger is TVs. I've been renting a flat in a poorer area for over a year now. The walls are a lot thinner than in other places. There are a lot of people today (mostly 50+ year-olds) who cannot fall to sleep without the TV on. My neighbor is one of them. And the thing with TVs is that the most irritating sound frequency they emit is the one that is barely audible when you're in the same room, but when you…
I sold my previous house precisely because of noisy neighbors (or rather their dogs). Their three dogs lived in the backyard permanently no matter what the weather - never seen them walked. Talked to the neighbors twice about the noise - no action. Called the cops at 3 in the morning - still nothing. Finally, I decided to sell the house and move somewhere where there is low dog density. I developed a dislike for dogs…
In last few months I've travelled to the US a few times. In all 3 hotels I've stayed in, I've had to switch rooms (in one hotel even 3 times in the course of a week) due to low frequency noise of ACs of neighbouring rooms and/or general ventilation system. Ear plugs simply don't cut it anymore these days.
The US is generally pretty noisy. House walls are thin and there is a lot of AC and heating noise. Whenever I come back to Germany I notice how quiet the houses are due to brick walls.
The beeping of cars when the doors are open.
The short blaring of car alarms, when they are closed remotely via key fob, just to make sure they work!
The beeping of bus and train doors when they are closing.
The banging hissing vents of overpressure in the pneumatic tanks of busses and trucks.
The humming and hissing of HVAC for the refrigeration of supermarkets.
The blaring of music in supermarkets (special case: Kylie Minogue with 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' which somehow seems to be in the eternal Top 20ies of supermarket music. La la la, lall lall, la la la lall lall....), the penetrant marketing displays activating from some endless loop when anything comes near them.
The stupid video walls in stations, blaring uninteresting shortnews, weather, and adverstisements while almost everybody is sunken into their smartphones. Talk about wasted effort!
The same goes for so called information displays in Trains, Subways, Metros, Buses installed every 2nd to 3rd row of seats.
I could, and sometimes do counter that with something playing over my earphones, but i don't like to, because it messes with my situational awareness.
the worst are * bells from catholic churches (when they play early Sunday morning they just invite you to blaspheme) * muezzin shouting from the mosque (aggravated from the fact that they talk Arabic, were in many countries, e.g. Turkey, nobody talks arabic, so nobody understand!) and the worst of the worst is that in both cases sound comes from tapes (no live at all, and very bad taped). Any national new legislation…
My parents live a half kilometer from the nearest temple and during festival seasons (which is 1/4 the year), they are woken up at 5am by loud religious music played at the temple at 100+ dB.
And this isn't some ancient religious hymn, it's religious lyrics set to pop music / bollywood tunes mixed by some 2nd tier recording artist.