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it was on BBC news earlier

http://www.noisemapping.org/frames/Map.asp

my house is 65-70db!!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

45db. Its a gated estate behind a main road, but far enough away for the traffic not to carry. Behind me is just garden.

Until three months ago though I lived on a main road. Sirens, buses, drunkards, the lot. Nasty.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Blimey 70-75db for the old place! No wonder I never got any fucking sleep.

(You have to add extra decibels for flatmate having very noisy sex or violent outbursts)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

That site is loading, but I'd say very quiet except when there are loads of football fans around - I'm on Park Lane (not the classy one), where Spurs' ground is, so now and again very noisy - but that's not traffic, which this site is about. It looks a substantial road on the map, but there's a barrier halfway along, so no through traffic, and I'm 400 yards or so from the nearest main road, and that's not busy - 600 yards or so to the High Road.

Ha, why do I have to select which flat after putting in the postcode? Is the flat next door significantly noisier or quieter? Anyway, it's 45-50, they say.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

My old flat was up to about 70-75, it was kind of hard to tell.

New house is down at about 50-55 which still seems a bit high, but maybe that's cause I'm at the back of the house. I should type in Catty's house, because that is the loudest flat I've ever been in!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My street is not noisy.

However I listen to music on headphones most of the time so for all I know my street could well be noisy.

But it is not sufficiently noisy to keep me awake at night, unlike other factors which do keep me awake at night.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

45-50dB. Of course, what with all the crickets and incest, the countryside is much louder.

― HKM, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i appear to be 80db!!

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not that clear cut though, all they're taking into account is the traffic in the roads that are coloured black/purple. They don't take into consideration any traffic on the other roads, air traffic etc. There are three different maps too, one in the early evening, one through the night, and one averaging out over 18 hours I think. (details are on the 'important information' link on the form page)

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm. I get away with 55-60 dB.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine is supposed to be 65-70, but that's bollocks. There's hardly any traffic apart from rush hour and even then not that much. I guess my flat is at the back of the building, the only noise I hear is the next door neighbours having exorcisms (!)

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

mine is 45-50 as well, there's nothing in between that and a few buildings that are 0-35, which seems weird to me.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I was really surprised that the back of our house is supposedly noisier than the front, given that the streets at the front and there's a park out the back, but as they're going by traffic noise from the main roads, the housing at the front will shield the traffic noise, whereas there's not much to deaden the traffic sound in the park, I guess.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

70-75, which makes sense given that I live on the A1. I have to wear one earplug to get to sleep and yet be able to wake up to my radio alarm in the morning.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

45-50. There's no way it's as loud as that. Mind you there are lots more cop cars around at the moment trying to catch the friendly neighbourhood hammer-murderer. Who says it's sleepy in the suburbs?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

55-65db, I'm not surprised. It's very noisy when there is a south westerly wind direction, this is coz of loads of trees and foilage being cut down by the side of the motorway around 2-3 miles away. When I am in power, the cutting down of a tree will result in a 5 year prison sentence, sounds fair to me.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

yay, I'm moving from brown down to yellow! Sleepy time, here I come!

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

45-50db. Good old Tuffers.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Was i the only one to notice the 'incest' in HKMs post???

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

And did he/she mean crickets or cricket?

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Loud incest, the worst kind of incest.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

i'm 45-50 too but that's without factoring in regular Fox vs Dog slanging match below me most nights, always around 12.30am.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

We get the kids riding up and down the street on their mopeds plus the woman opposite leaving her Alsatian on its own in her flat all day with the window open so the Alsatian can bark at passers-by any time of the day and night but better than the woman who lived there before who went mad and threatened to jump out of a window having spent several hours hanging out said window shouting and swearing at all and sundry

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE I MADE TEH FUNNY JOKE ABOUT THE COUNTRYSIDE LOL

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

but then I forgot the woman with the Alsatian's violent ex-boyfriend who used to come round at 2-3 in the morning shouting obscenities at her window then trying to kick her front door down so maybe the mad woman was better (xpost)

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

i wz riffing on a passage in 'scoop' where dear evelyn talks about how gosh darn *noisy* the countryside can be, and injecting some edgy, early 21st humor into it by mentioning incest.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

What's 'Scoop'? Who's Evelyn?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

What?

― Aja Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Evelyn Waugh - blokey what wrote Brideshead Revisted and Vile Bodies and the like. He wrote a very funny novel called "Scoop".

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

(Wait, he did write Vile Bodies, or was the Aldous Huxley? Or were the Huxleys *in* Vile Bodies? I'm so confused...)

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

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