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This is how you know I'm Texan...
...we were measuring windows for soundproofing curtains earlier today. As I was noting the measurements in my phone's notes app, it kept autocorrecting "tall" to "y'all."
The soundproof curtains are our antepenultimate step in soundproofing the bedroom. The back of the house is up against a street that wasn't that busy a decade ago, but during the past years several subdivisions, a megachurch* and now a shopping center means that the traffic has picked up. During the day it's not all that noticeable, but it's juuust loud enough at night and especially once the construction traffic starts at about 5AM, that it wakes us up. We currently have a white-noise generator, but I think it's working with one of my meds to make my ears ring all the time.
So we're going for a set of sound-blocking curtains that reduce noise a big chunk (nothing works 100%). If that doesn't work well enough to allow for uninterrupted sleep, the next step is a second set of sound-blocking curtains--some of the blackout curtains block some noise as well as light--to dampen a bit more. The final step is sound-blocking windows. Again, they don't reduce noise 100%, but if we end up with all three of those things, I expect that we'll be able to sleep.
Hopefully we'll be able to sleep before we need to drop the $$$ on the windows, but given the proximity of the house to the road, I think that's a home improvement that will actually add value to the house when we ultimately decide to sell.
* One of its parishioners is in our HOA. She kept insisting it wasn't a megachurch because it didn't have giant services. Instead of one service for 600+, it limits its 3+ services on Sunday to 200 people each. So we don't get a huge crush of traffic at one time on Sunday, we get a lot of traffic all day Sunday.
I figure when the name of your church is a URL, it's a sign that you're maybe a bit more secular than is traditional.
The soundproof curtains are our antepenultimate step in soundproofing the bedroom. The back of the house is up against a street that wasn't that busy a decade ago, but during the past years several subdivisions, a megachurch* and now a shopping center means that the traffic has picked up. During the day it's not all that noticeable, but it's juuust loud enough at night and especially once the construction traffic starts at about 5AM, that it wakes us up. We currently have a white-noise generator, but I think it's working with one of my meds to make my ears ring all the time.
So we're going for a set of sound-blocking curtains that reduce noise a big chunk (nothing works 100%). If that doesn't work well enough to allow for uninterrupted sleep, the next step is a second set of sound-blocking curtains--some of the blackout curtains block some noise as well as light--to dampen a bit more. The final step is sound-blocking windows. Again, they don't reduce noise 100%, but if we end up with all three of those things, I expect that we'll be able to sleep.
Hopefully we'll be able to sleep before we need to drop the $$$ on the windows, but given the proximity of the house to the road, I think that's a home improvement that will actually add value to the house when we ultimately decide to sell.
* One of its parishioners is in our HOA. She kept insisting it wasn't a megachurch because it didn't have giant services. Instead of one service for 600+, it limits its 3+ services on Sunday to 200 people each. So we don't get a huge crush of traffic at one time on Sunday, we get a lot of traffic all day Sunday.
I figure when the name of your church is a URL, it's a sign that you're maybe a bit more secular than is traditional.
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Oh wow, that stinks about the noise. Hope the curtains help.
Yeah, I agree with you on the numbers.