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It is impossible to make a yard airtight so you will always have to deal with flanking sound. Flanking sound is noise which wraps over, under or around your soundproofing structures. All of the principles of internal sound barriers and sound absorption still apply outdoors. Having exhausted logical commonsense approaches to reducing the noise you have two options for solving the problem. The first option is to create some sort of acoustic barrier in the yard. The second option is to return in doors and work on your internal soundproofing. It may even pay to check with your municipal council and make sure that your noisy neighbors are not breaking local laws. People are often surprised when they find that there are actually a lot of laws to protect residential amenity. I have seen laws which restrict the use of air conditioners after a certain time, prohibit leaf blowers and even outlaw pets like roosters and yappy dogs. It might be possible that a nearby business or industry is exceeding acceptable noise levels or operating at inappropriate hours. Sometimes you can solve the problem by simply raising the issue with the proprietor in a friendly manner. Words & Regulations Are Great SoundProofers
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So your first step is to identify the source of the problem and the path that it is taking to arrive at your yard. People tend to look at what they think is the source and imagine that the sound is travelling along a straight line straight from the source to their yard. It's possible for some sounds to take a detour and bounce off buildings and other objects and arrive at your yard amplified and from a quite unexpected direction. The amplification which occurs is no different to sound amplification which occurs when a murmur is channelled through a wind instrument and emerges at the other end as a trumpet blast. Outdoor noises can come from all sorts of directions at one time and may have many sources and can be reflected all over the place. SoundProofing Yards and Dealing With Outdoor Noise SoundProofing Yards and Dealing With Outdoor Noise Fri - 16:02 Quality Service, Seller or Tradesperson? Sign Up Now!