luvtheheat
Well-known member
I live in Tucson, and low humidity and desert climate / flora creates conditions that sometime cause sound to travel quite far. And the lower the frequency the further it can travel.
(See pic below).
House with X marked on it installed what I am guessing is a heat-pump type pool heater. The X is where the heater is. My next door neighbor (House Y) and myself (House Z) can clearly hear a very low frequency rumble when the pool heater is running. Owner X has installed some sound deadening materials on his wooden backyard fence and on the brick side wall of his house. Not a noticeable improvement.
Neighbor Y says the sound is like a diesel truck idling at her front door. For me, Z, I definitely hear it, but not nearly as much as neighbor Y does.
Owner X has pretty much said he's done all he's going to do, and since he rents the house out as a B&B he has little motivation to fix it for his neighbors. Renters of the B&B seem to not mind paying the $50 per day he charges for heating the pool, so it's noisy quite often.
As I jokingly told neighbor Y, "neighbor X can't hear it in Seattle where he lives, so our problem, not his.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to address this, from either a acoustics approach or a "be a better (remote) neighbor approach".
Thanks so much in advance.
(See pic below).
House with X marked on it installed what I am guessing is a heat-pump type pool heater. The X is where the heater is. My next door neighbor (House Y) and myself (House Z) can clearly hear a very low frequency rumble when the pool heater is running. Owner X has installed some sound deadening materials on his wooden backyard fence and on the brick side wall of his house. Not a noticeable improvement.
Neighbor Y says the sound is like a diesel truck idling at her front door. For me, Z, I definitely hear it, but not nearly as much as neighbor Y does.
Owner X has pretty much said he's done all he's going to do, and since he rents the house out as a B&B he has little motivation to fix it for his neighbors. Renters of the B&B seem to not mind paying the $50 per day he charges for heating the pool, so it's noisy quite often.
As I jokingly told neighbor Y, "neighbor X can't hear it in Seattle where he lives, so our problem, not his.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to address this, from either a acoustics approach or a "be a better (remote) neighbor approach".
Thanks so much in advance.