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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: "The Invisible (but not silent :-) ) Partners"
Message-ID: <1461@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 14:32:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 14:32:39 1985
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Reply-To: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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Keywords: soundproofing
Summary: 

>>I'm sorry Sophie, the spa was vaporized by the intense energy
>>given off during the integration process.
>
>and I imagine the earth moved also ?   |-)
>
>Peter B

Now that you mention it, there was a slight error in my previous
article, it wasn't Mt. Hood, it was Mt. St. Helens, and yes the earth
did move!  (Luckily they bought the story about it being a volcano.)

> It is a shame that more attention is not paid to proper soundproofing
>of buildings when they are being built.  
>-- 
>Sophie Quigley

Ever try to soundproof a mountain?

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Seriously (huh? what's that?), Sophie is right, little or no
attention is paid to soundproofing buildings.  Visual esthetics
get lots of attention since that is easily noticable when you
*look at* the house/apt to *see* if you want to live there.
Oftentimes visual esthetics are the *only* thing that gets
any attention, at the expense of not only soundproofing, but
things like maintaining a reasonable temperature, storage room,
privacy, etc.

A lot of the things they do to cut costs these days hurt the
soundproofing qualities: hollowcore doors, thin walls, etc.
There are lots of tricks for soundproofing, massive materials,
isolating one side of a wall from the other, etc. Unfortunately
these cost bucks.  I sort of dread the process of buying/building
a house, since there's no way I'll be able to afford a house that's
built the way I think it should be.  -sigh-

How come there isn't a net.homes?

Snoopy
tektronix!hammer!seifert

"Couple in the next room,
bound to win a prize,
They've been goin' at it all night long.
Well I'm tryin' to get some sleep,
but these motel walls are cheap."
		Paul Simon (?)