When you live in a concrete block house, you tend to take for granted how much sound is dampened by the walls.
Police sirens and car horns get muffled out to some extent, whereas my old wood plank house would absorb the soundwaves as the vehicles passed by.
I have neighbors who essentially live out on their back porch, but thankfully I rarely hear them unless I’m standing outside in my backyard. The same goes for lawn mowers, weed whackers, and the pool’s water filtration pump. Since the walls are so thick and strong, it’s hard for sound waves to pass through unless the noise is extremely loud. I used to think that my air conditioner condenser was normal. It is outside my kitchen window, and I typically always heard the noise from its fan bleeding in from outside. This all changed last week when I got a new air conditioning system installed. Along with the new air handler came a new condenser. It is so quiet while it runs that I rarely ever hear it if I’m inside my own house. For the first week, I found myself walking outside my back door to ensure it was still running on more occasions than I would like to admit. I could not imagine how quiet a condenser can be after getting rid of my old one that made so much noise. It’s amazing how far the heating and cooling industry has come with technology in the past two decades. It never ceases to amaze me when I see all of the various options available for air conditioners, furnaces, air purifiers, and humidifiers at places as common as large chain department stores.
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