How to deal with unbearable road noise after moving
Unexpected traffic and semi-truck noise can ruin sleep, cause house vibrations, and severely damage mental health. Expensive window replacements only help a little, leaving homeowners desperately looking for other solutions or wondering if they should sell and move again.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1wear ear plugs to bed
- 2selling the house quickly
- 3installing new windows
- 4insulating walls with rockwool and double drywall
- 5moving to a new location
- 6building a thick fence with dense bushes
- 7installing interior or exterior storm windows
- 8planting a line of fast-growing evergreens
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“road noise is killing my mental health”source ↗
“I have now been woken up for the 5th consecutive day at 4 AM by loud, blasting exhaust.”source ↗
“Has anyone here sold quickly because of this?”source ↗
“Struggling personally because we moved from our townhouse last year because of neighbor noise through the walls only to move somewhere much more expensive and even worse noise wise.”source ↗
“feel like my whole house shakes when one downshifts outside my place”source ↗
“I live on a very busy road on the way to an industrial park so there is always lots of semi trucks going by my house.”source ↗
“I just spent a fortune on new windows from Renewal by Andersen which helped a little bit. Anything else I can do?”source ↗
“I am in the same boat.”source ↗
Where this came up
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