Trees for sound barrier
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Comments (5)Since bamboo is hollow, I think you might actually amplify the sound. You might be able to block some sound with something taller and wider, but I don't think you would with only 3-4 ft.--the sound will come around and over. If I was going to try something, it would be larger and the side toward the air conditioner would be something softer than wood...perhaps foam, styrofoam, or acoustical tiles (like on a ceiling). Another possibility is heavy cotton batting (something like that is what our dishwasher is wrapped in, and it is nearly totally silent), but that might be more difficult to use, unless you staple it to plywood or a wooden frame. I realize none of those are pretty, but they could be disguised. To avoid digging, make it something like folding screens or 2 double posts on a stand that whatever material you use could be dropped into. I know that is not a good description, but maybe I can draw a picture of it and attach it. Look on Craigslist for free or cheap materials to experiment with--insulating styrofoam is frequently on there, along with misc. lumber and bricks (at least in our area those items are on there almost every day). I wouldn't put a lot of money into it (unless you have another use for the materials) until I had experimented and thought it would work....See MoreBest, fastest, cheapest sound barrier
Comments (26)Goodness! Was so busy with the move, I missed part of the Pogrom! Anyhoo...we were in Mississippi for a board meeting, and got a look at our old garden, which is looking GREAT. Thought I'd do an update. As I'd stated, we were worried that we'd lose a ton, selling in this market, and with the ongoing noise problem just outside our neighborhood. But the garden gave the house immense 'curb appeal', our Decorator had the interiors whipped into a seductive frenzy, and our Mayor...well...has worked for two decades, to give the town enough cachet to keep property values high, even in this Depression. Too, Kismet smiled upon us, in the form of two young surgeons, who had lived in problem neighborhoods, before. Living in slums until they'd completed residency, they had been assaulted with noise from neighbors' sound systems, too. In order to get much-needed sleep, they had developed an acoustic isolation chamber disguised as a curtained bed. Amazingly similar to what our Decorator had done for our windows, but isolated on all sides, the structure sits on several inches of special foam. So there's no chance of infrasonic vibrations making their way up from the ground. GENIUS! Those whose accounting is more optimistic than mine would say we made a couple hundred grand. I'd say we just broke even, once the move was factored-in. Anyway, we got the (rather high) asking price. Our friends who had moved out here ahead of us found a distressed estate home for us, up the mountain from them. Too artsy-craftsy-early-nineties-lodge-look for me. But our decorator is bringing the house into the new Millennium with only a few tweaks, here and there. Anyway, we got a genuine estate, in one of the most desired neighborhoods in the Northwest, for only a bit more than we'd gotten for our spec-grade McMansion in Madison. Our friends out here also bought an "architecturally-important estate home" at a distressed price, and (once the decorator we share had worked his magic) have been getting offers that would advance their position by over a million. Hope that happens here. Nice as this is, I have my heart set on something smaller and more formal...French cut Limestone, with brick herringbone floors, to be specific. Back in Madison, the Clumping Bamboo we added is thriving, and the young surgeons have found an improved cultivar of variegated Arundo (Peppermint Stick) at Madison Lawn & Garden, to plug up the accoustic 'holes'. This is their first real home, and they are turning into gardening fiends! Wonderful! The CVS urns lynch-mob travesty got us thinking about giant urns for the ends of the pool. So our decorator had Hayles & Howe cast a couple of eight-footers from the parapet of a house in England. They arrived a month back, and we got to see them, newly-installed. Brought tears to my eyes....tears of joy, to see my garden looking so lovely. If the new owners allow the house to be photographed, maybe you'll see it in a magazine. I doubt it, though. Aside from the plantings and the decorating, it's still just a spec house. Based on what I planted that's looking great, here's a list of triumphs: Muskogee Crape Myrtle Peach Drift Rose (quite shade tolerant) Cherokee Rose Lady Banks Rose (all four forms...single white, double white, single yellow, double yellow...as well as the hybrid 'Fortunaiana') Dr. W. VanFleet Rose (the more vigorous parent of New Dawn) Southern Wood Fern Crocosmia Hymenocallis 'Sparkling Burgundy' Camellia Sasanqua Oops!...just opened the gates for my Trainer. Gotta go... Thanks, everybody, for those notes of encouragement!...See MoreWhat to use for a sound & sight barrier in NW Fla - with pic
Comments (4)First thing that comes to mind is dogwood tree, altho they can be fickle and not sure if you are too far south. There is another tree that is supposed to be like the dogwood, I am thinking silverbell???but could be mistaken and not sure if it takes sun or shade. Another choice would be azaleas, they do love the south, and typically do well under pines and like acidity which the pine needles provide some. Azaleas can get pretty big if you let them, and they have the Encore ones now, which I don't have experience with but hear they flower more. Also camellias, which I love, and find easy to grow, as an added bonus they are evergreen and bloom in fall/winter....See MoreNeed tall rustic doors for sound and privacy barrier to laundry.
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