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brooklyn1 · 25-03-2016, 07:44 PM posted to rec.gardens

wrote:

Any thoughts prey tell on the idea of making a overlapping wooden fence,
7.half foot high ( i know..i know 6ft is the limit etc etc ), so..7.5ft
high x 12ft across.

It will be double sided, ie, essentially 4 x 6ft panels. A gap obviously
between the sides ( around 7inches )

My question, i was in insert either weatherproof soft material between
the wooden panels. One chap recommended bark chippings! however surely
they would rot, smell etc.

The overall object is the 'soften' a little bit at least the sound /
chatter from next door.

To cap it off, i want to get 3 large pots and put 3 7ft 'trees' in
them..thin, evergreen..just so they are poking up above the fence type
scenerio. Narrow 'trees'.

Thoughts, recommendations on fence / trees / weatherproof material. I
checked out Jacksons website, they have a very thin! material ( costly
)..more looking at large piece of something i can stuff between.

Do any good? Better than a gabion wall?

thoughts more than welcome

Are you still yammering about your noisy neighbors... with the
proximity/parameters you have to work with there is absolutely nothing
you can erect that would in any meaningful way mute a neighbor's loud
voices... you'd need an accoustic barrior at least 12' high and more
importantly like 40' wide, because sound bounces/echos and then
becomes amplified. You have but one choice and one choice only, you
need to relocate, and even if you move to where houses are on ten acre
lots you will still hear each other, I promise you will. I live in a
very rural farming community on 16 acres, my nearest neighbor's house
is a good thousand feet away, yet come evenings I can hear every word
coming from the people sitting on his patio, and they don't even talk
loudly, but that's only if I'm outdoors too, however I don't hear any
outside voices when I'm indoors, not with central air going 24/7.
Sound travels great distances outdoors very easily over quiet empty
spaces. Even many acres of dense forest is no sound barrier, if
someone is mowing or starts a chain saw a mile away I can hear it. So
there's your remedy, install central air conditioning and keep all
your windows closed. I never open windows, I even got rid of all the
window screens because I detest looking outside through screens, and
they'll fill with pollen within hours. During the cold months I have
heat running so I don't open windows then either. With my windows
closed my house stays very clean, I rarely need to dust. My A/C
system has a high efficiency particulate filter installed and a UV
lamp that kills germs. it runs on low speed when not calling for cool
so it runs all the time... it's inexpensive to maintain, the filter
element gets changed every two years, $40. UV lamps cost more, about
$125 every two years. It works because I rarely ever have a cold. I
also treat all the water coming in from my well with UV... anyone who
lives where municiple water is not treated with chlorine really needs
to install a UV lamp where the water enters. For my drinking water I
have an RO filter (Reverse Osmosis), the only water purification that
actually works.
During the transition times when the A/C is off or the heat is off for
a couple of weeks, weather permitting I install special screens that
have built-in dust filters... all my windows are triple glazed
thermopanes so that's the only time I hear outside noises, a cacophony
of critters, birds all day, frogs and insects all night. These work
very well:
http://www.natlallergy.com/catalogse...ens+and+filter