I put weather stripping around the garage door. 2 benefits: greatly reduced noise from my power tools and keeps out wind blown rain. I can turn on the DC and planer and can barely hear a thing when standing outside the garage. If it's hot, I have to open things up, so I'm thinking of installing a wall unit A/C.
My nearest neighbor's house is 12' away and she has never complained about the noise (and she is a b*tch, so I KNOW she'd complain if it was an issue!).
Dave
another suggestion: don't start too early in the morning or run late into the evening, so that if a bit of noise escapes your shop, it won't seem quite so bothersome to your neighbors than if you disturbed them outside of "business" hours.
Perhaps it was the music?
In cut quality a bit in particular with some maple I was doing at the time. I still got some tear out but not near as much as I used to. As far as noise a BIG reduction, even through the muffs I wear with just about any power tool. The planer is a two blade 12" Dewalt and it came with a second set of knives. I sent the first out for sharpening and I'll be interested in seeing if how the sharpness compares to the original on the DeWalt set when I swap them out.
Allen Catonsville, MD
And the DJ, and Karaoke, and anything else that generated the correct bass frequencies.
Steak dosen't make much noise.
If properly prepared.
David wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:
I occaisionally ask if my woodworking is bothering the neighbors, and consistently, I've been told that it doesn't.
Having a neighbor with a Harley Davidson or two must make my machines seem quiet in comparison. (And he's a really good neighbor!)
Patriarch
On 7/3/2005 10:42 PM Patriarch mumbled something about the following:
Harley's aren't loud when stock, and I know lots of non-Harley's that are in excess of 105 dB. My woodworking tools are a lot louder than my Harley.
Yes, I also have a neighbor (a good neighbor too) with a Harley, and ironically after first posting this has left his Harley idling in the driveway for 5-10 minutes at 6:00AM and rides it around the nieghborhood streets. I wait till after 10:00AM to run the planer on the weekends.
If you haven't already insulated and sheetrocked, you can eliminate a lot of noise by building a second frame for each wall inside of the building, leaving a small amount of dead air space between it and the original frame. You lose a little space, but the sounds cannot travel through the wall nearly as effectively- and it also adds a little insulation value. It'll still be loud inside the garage, but nothing like it was outside.
Not at all, I know quite a few. We are in a minority tho.
Thanks!
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