Help with Noise Barrier Fencing
#1
Help with Noise Barrier Fencing
Has anyone built a highway noise barrier?
I live near a highway and am researching best way to build a noise barrier. Obviously this could be very expensive! I could potentially build a berm, but another idea is build a tongue/groove fencing and lining one side with audio seal matting. Fence will need to be 10' to eliminate line-of-sight, about 150-175 yds in length.
Has anyone tried something like this before?
I live near a highway and am researching best way to build a noise barrier. Obviously this could be very expensive! I could potentially build a berm, but another idea is build a tongue/groove fencing and lining one side with audio seal matting. Fence will need to be 10' to eliminate line-of-sight, about 150-175 yds in length.
Has anyone tried something like this before?
#2
You're right -- it IS going to be expensive.
At 10 feet high, it has to be engineered. So start with a Civil Engineer and go from there.
This is WAY beyond a DIY project!!
At 10 feet high, it has to be engineered. So start with a Civil Engineer and go from there.
This is WAY beyond a DIY project!!
#6
So dwdukes,
WELCOME to DoItYourself.com!!
I think the trees win. They will do as much for you as far as reducing noise as a 10' high block wall will. The trees are MUCH cheaper to install (plant), but the on-going maintenance (water) will indeed be more. The trees will drop leaves, which you can then compost. (Don't try composting ANYTHING that falls off of a block wall!!)
So Chris and I have had our fun with you, and hopefully we got at least a SMILE from you!
Seriously, installing 10' tall block walls as a sound wall along a roadway IS the City's or the County's (or the State's) thing. I can see a wall like that costing about $100/ft.!!! And you could only build it along that portion of the road that your property abuts to. Unless ALL of your neighbors were to build the same wall, I just don't see where one little stretch of it will do much to abate the noise.
WELCOME to DoItYourself.com!!
I think the trees win. They will do as much for you as far as reducing noise as a 10' high block wall will. The trees are MUCH cheaper to install (plant), but the on-going maintenance (water) will indeed be more. The trees will drop leaves, which you can then compost. (Don't try composting ANYTHING that falls off of a block wall!!)
So Chris and I have had our fun with you, and hopefully we got at least a SMILE from you!
Seriously, installing 10' tall block walls as a sound wall along a roadway IS the City's or the County's (or the State's) thing. I can see a wall like that costing about $100/ft.!!! And you could only build it along that portion of the road that your property abuts to. Unless ALL of your neighbors were to build the same wall, I just don't see where one little stretch of it will do much to abate the noise.