Snowman999
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We're finally getting settled in our townhouse, and there's positives and negatives.
Positives: The area. After spending most of my life living and hanging out in NYC, I'm in the sticks. Yes, we're in a townhouse development. But, once we leave, we can get to our favorite shops by backroads. Which are all farmland. I jog past cows and horses every day.
Our attic has a skylight, and the view is the mountains and sky. It's magnificent.
We love thrift shops and antique stores. There's over a dozen in a ten mile radius.
Our public library has 6 affiliates, and I can get most any blu ray I want for free. When they sell them it's 50 cents to a dollar. If they don't have it, I have 4 suggestions a month and they'll get me a copy.
THANKFULLY, the walls are soundproof. I don't even know we have neighbors through the walls. I hate writing this, because I believe in jinxs, and saying it might jinx it.
These are the positives.
The Negatives:
While I can't hear people through the walls. Our TH is 4 floors. The basement is above ground. The first floor is a kitchen/dining room/living room area. Second floor is 2 baths/3 bedrooms. Third floor is my movie room for the moment.
If you move in this TH it's like it's happening all over the TH. My wife can be on the phone on the first floor, and it sounds like she's sitting next to me on the second or third. Word for word can be heard. I'm surprised I can't hear the people on the other end of the phone. Shutting the shitty doors does nothing. It doesn't deaden the volume at all. They seem to be some sort of metal and hollow.
The sound coming through the skylight on the third is amazing. You'd think the people were in the room with you. It's not as loud or understandable on the second or first floor. But, the movie room has anyone outside right there.
I can have my home theatre at volume 13 out of 60 (that's low) and you can hear it in the basement. So, my wife puts her volume up on the TV on the first floor, and we have competing shows.
So, the area and amenities are great. The TH SUCKS! I'm probably going to die here, which makes it worse. If I get to stay here after I'm dead, I'll know I'm in hell.
THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS RANT IS ABOUT. It's about getting me some SANITY. Turning hell into heaven, or just a little better.
This is my attic. It's much different now (our furniture and knick knacks). The movie screen is that indention wall. It's nine feet wide. I'm happy with that for the moment.

This is my thoughts. But, I'm an IDIOT. So, I'm probably wrong.
I believe the sound is traveling down the open stairways. The white banisters you see. If walls were put up with a door, should that essentially lower the volume going and coming? If the walls had rockwool in them, would that further reduce the volume going and coming? I have no problems with the neighbors, the soundproofing between places is great. It's the volume from within that's horrific. I mean really bad.
Positives: The area. After spending most of my life living and hanging out in NYC, I'm in the sticks. Yes, we're in a townhouse development. But, once we leave, we can get to our favorite shops by backroads. Which are all farmland. I jog past cows and horses every day.
Our attic has a skylight, and the view is the mountains and sky. It's magnificent.
We love thrift shops and antique stores. There's over a dozen in a ten mile radius.
Our public library has 6 affiliates, and I can get most any blu ray I want for free. When they sell them it's 50 cents to a dollar. If they don't have it, I have 4 suggestions a month and they'll get me a copy.
THANKFULLY, the walls are soundproof. I don't even know we have neighbors through the walls. I hate writing this, because I believe in jinxs, and saying it might jinx it.
These are the positives.
The Negatives:
While I can't hear people through the walls. Our TH is 4 floors. The basement is above ground. The first floor is a kitchen/dining room/living room area. Second floor is 2 baths/3 bedrooms. Third floor is my movie room for the moment.
If you move in this TH it's like it's happening all over the TH. My wife can be on the phone on the first floor, and it sounds like she's sitting next to me on the second or third. Word for word can be heard. I'm surprised I can't hear the people on the other end of the phone. Shutting the shitty doors does nothing. It doesn't deaden the volume at all. They seem to be some sort of metal and hollow.
The sound coming through the skylight on the third is amazing. You'd think the people were in the room with you. It's not as loud or understandable on the second or first floor. But, the movie room has anyone outside right there.
I can have my home theatre at volume 13 out of 60 (that's low) and you can hear it in the basement. So, my wife puts her volume up on the TV on the first floor, and we have competing shows.
So, the area and amenities are great. The TH SUCKS! I'm probably going to die here, which makes it worse. If I get to stay here after I'm dead, I'll know I'm in hell.
THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS RANT IS ABOUT. It's about getting me some SANITY. Turning hell into heaven, or just a little better.
This is my attic. It's much different now (our furniture and knick knacks). The movie screen is that indention wall. It's nine feet wide. I'm happy with that for the moment.

This is my thoughts. But, I'm an IDIOT. So, I'm probably wrong.
I believe the sound is traveling down the open stairways. The white banisters you see. If walls were put up with a door, should that essentially lower the volume going and coming? If the walls had rockwool in them, would that further reduce the volume going and coming? I have no problems with the neighbors, the soundproofing between places is great. It's the volume from within that's horrific. I mean really bad.