Post #1746644
2026-04-07 00:03 UTC
Always did in apartments. Closing the bedroom door gives me another layer between the neighbors and street traffic. I added rubber door sweeps and seals to further dampen the noise. In a detached home, I'd leave the door open during the day but close it when I sleep for added fire safety.
I used to have a *downstairs* neighbor who stomped loudly and my pleas didn't work. So I got a subwoofer and played some low-frequency white noise when I needed to drown it out. *After reading your comments, I'd highly recommend this if you can't move out yet.*
They seriously need to build more apartments and condos with concrete instead of thin wood in the US. I miss my old apartment when I was in Germany. Nice sturdy concrete walls so my neighbor could blast music all day without bothering me at all.
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@TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2026-04-07 14:45
Downstairs neighbour stomping that hard is crazy. I have headphones in 99% of the time at home to try and drown out the noise but it's still loud unless I crank whatever I'm listening to, to a point where I feel like I'll cause long term damage. I could try the subwoofer thing though. Ya unfortunately developers care more about speed and profit rather than comfort a lot of the times.
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@rbn@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-07 06:28
>They seriously need to build more apartments and condos with concrete instead of thin wood in the US. Concrete is a desaster from an environmental perspective and there are other ways to dampen sound between two apartment units such as clay, straw, lime, hemp etc.