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  1. #1
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    I just want quiet...

    At home the upstairs neighbor is vacuuming and scraping furniture on her uncarpeted floor and letting her dog run around on my ceiling. At the garage where I park for work there is drilling and sawing. In the building where I work there is jackhammering all around the building as they renovate the parking lots and all the talking and meetings and phone calls in the cube farm.

    I just want piece and quiet. There is none anywhere.

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  2. #2
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    you need ear plugs or ear muffs. seriously. I work in the noise lab... these can knock off 30dB of your ambient noise.
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  3. #3
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    Yeah, I have a box of ear plugs at home and I realized this morning I need to bring them into work.

    The jackhammerers are on their lunch break. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to do that all day long.

    - Gray 2010 carbon WSD road bike, Rivet Independence saddle
    - Red hardtail 26" aluminum mountain bike, Bontrager Evoke WSD saddle
    - Royal blue 2018 aluminum gravel bike, Rivet Pearl saddle

    Gone but not forgotten:
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    - Two awesome worn out Juliana saddles

  4. #4
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    Surely the jackhammerers use ear protection? Constant jackhammering is one of the most annoying noises to tolerate.

    We've been having neighborhood meetings about Occupy Wall Street -- they have a drum circle which goes on until 11 pm. Even with lots of normal city noise and construction, that constant drumming noise is making me crazy. It somehow penetrates and travels really well.

  5. #5
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    I know exactly how you feel. Nothing gets me more irritable and cranky than noise. I have often wondered if I am sound sensitive because noises that don't seem to bother others really annoy me. Luckily my apartment is generally fairly quiet, although I wonder about my neighbors with all the random loud bumps that come from their end of the wall between us. Luckily I'm on the third floor so I'm the one vacuuming on others' ceilings.

    I definitely put in for earplugs. When I had a very noisy and inconsiderate roommate a few years ago, it was the only way I survived. Basically, I put them in when I got home and didn't take them out until I left the house the next morning. I even showered in them so I didn't have to listen to her slamming doors and coughing (she was sick ALL the time) and generally making other small annoying sounds.

  6. #6
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    Jack hammerers are required to wear hearing protection per OSHA standards but that does not mean that it is enforced. It will lead to hearing loss.
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  7. #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by ny biker View Post
    At home the upstairs neighbor is vacuuming and scraping furniture on her uncarpeted floor and letting her dog run around on my ceiling. At the garage where I park for work there is drilling and sawing. In the building where I work there is jackhammering all around the building as they renovate the parking lots and all the talking and meetings and phone calls in the cube farm.

    I just want piece and quiet. There is none anywhere.
    The street where we live is silent at night, honestly, you can hear almost no sound after about 9pm. It is heavenly; but I've gotten so used to it that I have to use earplugs when traveling now.

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