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Some of my neighbors might hear my hot tub it they stood and the window on a very quiet night, between gun shots and speeders on the nearby street.
Buy him a mat for under his tub see if he bites. Neighborhood rules likely apply and they can get grey/sketchy/difficult to enforce or most likely non existent. Have you gone to your city/township/association/county board? See if codes are in place?
Life's too short to worry about a hum. What do people do who live next to a freeway or interstate? They get used to it. I get the feeling that you want to hear it so you can beeotch about it. Move on.
I suggest you invest in a set of foam rubber ear plugs.
How about white noise?
Quote from: rosewoodsteel on May 12, 2014, 05:41:22 pmI suggest you invest in a set of foam rubber ear plugs. The problem is the vibration wakes me up. Sometimes the episodes last for hours (probably due to heating cycles) The ear plugs don't stop the vibration. Besides which I paid a quarter million for my home and you have no right to make noise in it.
Noise is a serious detractor of health. If the hot tub community wants to have this sort of attitude instead of coming up with solutions ensuring no noise in my house then perhaps we should just make hot tubs illegal.
Quote from: whariwharangi on May 12, 2014, 04:36:09 pmNoise is a serious detractor of health. If the hot tub community wants to have this sort of attitude instead of coming up with solutions ensuring no noise in my house then perhaps we should just make hot tubs illegal.Obviously this is a serious matter to you. You have a better understanding of what you're talking about, but it is impossible for us to hear what you hear. At the same time, we do not know the conditions, surroundings, the rules in play, or the people involved, but we have offered some accomodating insight to the problem. Focus on sound absorption at the point of origin. But it doesn't sound like that is going to work either.In that case, I would suggest turnabout as fairplay, get a bigger hot tub, take a soak every evening. You can mellow out each evening, soon you will have forgotten what bothers you, and you will discover hot tubs are a serious health enhancement, and you will sleep like never before. Maybe that's why they got thiers
How do you know the noise is coming from a hot tub? My tub is just outside my bedroom window. I don't hear that but I hear my central air when that kicks on.