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The electric heater in the utility room next to the family room makes a decent amount of noise during operation. Since it's in the house, the sound of the heater running comes through as noise when I lie in bed at night.
So, I had an idea. Can you tell me if it might be effective? Has anyone tried this before?
Method 1: Buy noise-reducing pads and attach them to the walls, ceiling, and inside of the door to reduce the noise.
The electric heater in the utility room next to the family room makes a decent amount of noise during operation. Since it's in the house, the sound of the heater running comes through as noise when I lie in bed at night.
So, I had an idea. Can you tell me if it might be effective? Has anyone tried this before?
Method 1: Buy noise-reducing pads and attach them to the walls, ceiling, and inside of the door to reduce the noise.
Noise/sound travels in a variety of different ways. It's more complicated than most folks think. You probably should research it before spending much time or money trying to ameliorate it. Sound travels through walls, ceilings, floors, pipes, ducts, etc through vibrations. It's harder to control or stop than you might think.
I had a situation several years ago where my condo neighbor's hot tub motor/pump noise traveled through the walls of my bedroom and disturbed my sleep nightly for a looooong time. I finally confronted him about it one night and he agreed thereafter not to run the motor/pump at night.
I managed some condo space years ago and found effective sound proofing was only done with expensive construction techniques where all surfaces (floors, walls, ceilings) were isolated. No direct connection was done between units so all surfaces were a few inched thicker. The end result was amazing where one unit contained a sound studio was totally quiet in the adjoining units.
I managed some condo space years ago and found effective sound proofing was only done with expensive construction techniques where all surfaces (floors, walls, ceilings) were isolated. No direct connection was done between units so all surfaces were a few inched thicker. The end result was amazing where one unit contained a sound studio was totally quiet in the adjoining units.
Sounds nice. Unfortunately, our units weren't constructed that way.
The electric heater in the utility room next to the family room makes a decent amount of noise during operation. Since it's in the house, the sound of the heater running comes through as noise when I lie in bed at night.
So, I had an idea. Can you tell me if it might be effective? Has anyone tried this before?
Method 1: Buy noise-reducing pads and attach them to the walls, ceiling, and inside of the door to reduce the noise.
Method 2: Buy a heater that doesn't make so much noise.
Well, first of all, unless you know the noise path, just buying some stuff isn't going to help. To even begin to offer suggestions a lot more information is needed.
Is this a forced air HVAC unit, or hot water heating? Is it air movement noise or mechanical noise from a blower (forced air) or pump (hot water)? Or even the noise of a burner/flame? Is the unit in good mechanical condition? Vibrating? Bearings going out? Cavitation in a pump? Etc., etc., etc. Is there a door on the closet that faces the space where you are? Is it sealed? Can it be sealed or do there have to be penetrations for combustion air? Are the ducts isolated from the wall structure or resting against the wall? How are the ducts supported - are they hung from sturdy structural members, or just kind of leaning on walls so any duct vibration will ring big expanses of lightly supported drywall like a big speaker cone?
You need to figure out what's causing the noise, whether it's abnormal or not, and how the noise is getting from the HVAC closet to your ears, before you randomly start buying stuff.
M3: If I were to follow your absurd suggestion, it would be better to move to a different house as a third alternative.
Well that certainly is a possibility. Let us know if you do, so that we can offer that advice to others.
Some heaters are noisy because of poor design and cheap construction. A $3 fan with a pressed tin blade is going to make noise. I have a convection heater in my bedroom that only has the sound of the thermostat clicking on and off. Other than that, it is completely silent. Maybe the laws of physics are different in your area.
You don't bother to say if your heater is built-in, but by inferring that it isn't since you think you can put it on a pad, I will be interested in your attempts at resolving your issues.
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