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Jane finds her garden:brick wall question
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... : The message : from Jane Lumley contains these words: : : Thanks so much to all for your help - we've found a house with an acre : of land.... but I'm not saying any more in case one of you gazumps me! : . : : Thing is, said acre is currently rather exposed to wind and traffic : noise, so dh and I are eager to make a walled garden by building brick : walls around at least part of it. Are we mad? : : I've looked at several : websites and the art of bricklaying seems very jargon laden. Does : anyone know of a site in plain English? And has anyone ever done one of : those night-school bricklaying courses? : : Try ex-urgler cormaic's site, www.pavingexpert. : : We moved (from a rural garden well over 3 acres) partly because of : rapidly increasing traffic noise and nuisance. In our situation, it was : mostly tourist traffic; IOW, it was at its worst at exactly the times we : wanted to be outside enjoying the garden, in good weather and all : holiday periods. : : Is this industrial traffic (might be quieter at weekends)? Sports or : tourist-attraction traffic, could be worse at weekends? You're seeing it : in winter; is it likely to be quieter now than in summer? Visit the area : during rush hours. Do people chug past in a slow tail of traffic at 30 : mph, or race past at 70? Can you get in and out of the gate safely at : busy times? Is the traffic mostly cars, or huge reverberating trucks? : Shut yourself in the bedrooms, listen to the noise, and ask yourself if : you'll be able to sleep with a window open. : : I'd think very, very hard if I were you, about what you want from your : garden and what you can tolerate. IMHO you won't shut out traffic noise : or fumes from one acre, with a wall (or anything else). : : Janet. : I would agree with Janet. We live in a suburban cul-de-sac approx 5 miles from Heathrow. We obviously get a certain amount of aircraft noise and if the wind is in a certain direction and they are using a certain runway, the planes take off overhead which can be unbearable - but better now that Concorde is no longer with us - but does not happen too often. However, my point is that we always say we prefer to live here than on a road that has constant traffic noise day and night. Mind you, we may feel differently when we get the 5th terminal, 3rd runway, etc etc....... K |
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