People are coming out to enjoy the nicer weather in Cincinnati, and more and more noise is coming in through your windows from the others in your neighborhood. If you have a problem keeping your house quiet during this time of year, don’t fret. There are steps you can take to take to make your house quieter and even cooler during the summer months.
Landscape Near Windows
Planting bushes and trees near your windows provides a beautiful, living barrier that helps to decrease the sound and light making its way through your windows. The bushes do the best job in filtering both sound and light, but will also block any view out of the window you may have enjoyed.
Planting trees so they grow up and provide shade on your window will block a lot of heat and light from getting in your home through the windows. Trees don’t block much, if any, sound but they also won’t block your view like bushes will.
Fencing Between Your Window and Your Neighbor
“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” is so very, very true, and if you have a noisy neighbor a good fence will get you a quieter house also. It’s all about having that barrier between you and whatever is making the noise that is getting in your home.
Fences won’t be able to block all of the noise coming from your neighbor, though. Some of that noise will still be able to carry up and over the fence to your windows, but the fence will do a good job in decreasing the amount of noise that makes its way into your home.
Window Treatments
Window treatments work to block both light and noise from coming in your windows. The heavier the window treatment, the better it does the job.
Energy-Efficient Windows
You already know how effective energy-efficient windows are at decreasing your power bill by blocking out the heat and cold from coming in your home. But many people don’t know that they can also do a good job at blocking out sound also.
New energy-efficient windows are able to block sound the same way they block out the sunlight from coming in your home. Also because they are new windows there will be no cracks or gaps around the window to allow sound in like with older windows.
For best sound reduction results, combine a number of these suggestions together instead of relying on one window idea or the other to get the job done.
