Peter:
PH> Hope someone here can help with suggestions. PH> PH> I'm moving to a condo apartment that is very close to a major highway, face
PH> south-east and I'm a light sleeper. yeah.. I know.. but the thing is I thin
PH> I'll be fine as long as I can keep the bedroom reasonably quiet and dark. I PH> don't care if the bedroom windows are ever open. I know that I'll get used PH> to the noise, but really prefer a quiet sleep in a dark room if possible.
In addition to whatever other suggestions may be posted you may wish to try sleeping with a fan on. Make sure it is slightly noisy to create white noise to smooth out most of the highway noises.
As for keeping the bedroom dark there are such things as blackout drapes. Remember, the condo rules say the _exterior_ has to be white
-- a liner should solve that problem.
There are also various light-blocking blinds.
PH> I was thinking that I could pickup some thick Styrofoam insulation and just PH> paint it white, or glue some old Venetians to it and jam it into the window PH> cavity, but I'm worried about condensation on the window and potential PH> damage. I'm in the Toronto are of Canada and so the winters can be quite PH> cold and the summers hot and humid.
I'd be somewhat concerned with condensation if you sealed the window cavity (jamming it in). Perhaps styrofoam cut an inch smaller than the window, supported with «" styrofoam blocks to allow air flow. A heavy drapery over this to block light and sound.
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