gasket999
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Odd one. I'm getting ready to start construction of a new workshop. We went with oak in the end - larch cladding over a membrane and we'll be adding insulation in the future (kingspan or rockwool behind OSB panels). The roof will be man made slate over membrane and the doors are uninsulated oak and there's no windows.
From the closest wall of the workshop the nearest neighbour's garden boundary is 26m and the distance to the closest point of their house is 32m. Its a new property we've just bought and I don't want to p*** anyone off. Its a pair of old semi-detached houses in the middle of nowhere, so just one neighbour.
I'm trying to get a feel for how much noise will reach them through the larch clad walls and whether I need to insulate straight away and perhaps include some thought to sound insulation. Cost is the issue - we can't really run to insulation in year 1.
So I'd like to be in there - welding away, with regular grinder use, air tools and a compressor with music in the background. But I have no earthly idea how far noise travels.
I tried the scientific approach - an angle grinder makes 123DB cutting the hardest steel at about 10cm/0.1m. Plugging that into a calculator says it would loud but not ear splitting at about 74/73db at 26/32m. That assumes open air - obviously I'll be inside a big wooden workshop and there's a hedge between us.
So thought I'd ask to see if anyone had any real-world examples - like my workshop is 40m from the house and you can't hear a thing.
From the closest wall of the workshop the nearest neighbour's garden boundary is 26m and the distance to the closest point of their house is 32m. Its a new property we've just bought and I don't want to p*** anyone off. Its a pair of old semi-detached houses in the middle of nowhere, so just one neighbour.
I'm trying to get a feel for how much noise will reach them through the larch clad walls and whether I need to insulate straight away and perhaps include some thought to sound insulation. Cost is the issue - we can't really run to insulation in year 1.
So I'd like to be in there - welding away, with regular grinder use, air tools and a compressor with music in the background. But I have no earthly idea how far noise travels.
I tried the scientific approach - an angle grinder makes 123DB cutting the hardest steel at about 10cm/0.1m. Plugging that into a calculator says it would loud but not ear splitting at about 74/73db at 26/32m. That assumes open air - obviously I'll be inside a big wooden workshop and there's a hedge between us.
So thought I'd ask to see if anyone had any real-world examples - like my workshop is 40m from the house and you can't hear a thing.