Best Home Fence to Install for Noise Abatement

Have you ever visited or lived in any rural area or place? These places are so tempting. Agree or not?

In rural areas, you can enjoy the quietness and no traffic noise. I am writing this article because one of my cousins moved to the city from a rural area about a week ago. Yesterday I received a call from him complaining about the noise and traffic sounds on the road.

He was so disappointed with the noises and asked me for some help with the best home fence to install for noise abatement.

I also live next to a busy traffic location, and I have never enjoyed the quietness unless I made research on the best fence for blocking traffic noise.

Everyone in the world craves privacy and quietness, our home is the only place to get some privacy, peace, and quietness after a busy schedule at work/office.

There are different noise reduction and barrier fences you can install, but first, let’s have a look at some factors to consider.

Sound Barrier Fence: Factors to Consider

As the name says these fences are specially designed to act as sound barriers. The principles of soundproofing are the more of the mass and the better the material is in soundproofing.

For this reason, the sound barrier fence needs to have thicker boards that should be nailed on heavy rails and should be supported by strong and heavy posts. “Heavy” is the operative word for sound barriers.

The masonry walls are more effective in reducing the road sounds than the wooden fences. The berms barriers also block sound when they are built high enough.

But, if you are thinking of using wood as your sound barrier, you need to make sure a fence is high and solid and has no gaps between the boards.

However, whichever material you have decided to use as your sound barrier fence, first you need to submit the detailed report to the authorities to ensure you’re not violating any set ordinances.

For example, if your home is at the corner of the street and you are building a tall noise barrier fence, this will put you on a collision course with the City Hall authority because it can reduce the driver’s visibility and cause accidents.

Best Home Fence to Install for Noise Abatement

The First step is picking the correct material to make the fence valuable for commotion decrease. You need first to recognize what sort of commotion is coming into your yard and where it is coming from. Choices for the fence would incorporate cedar or redwood. You can likewise utilize steel sheeting, straw bunches, and smashed earth. However, these are the materials that are less well known in thickly populated local locations. 

Be careful about material that is planned for outdoor use. Make a point to pose inquiries about how strong the material is to climate. Environment factors like limited warmth and sun can in time corrupt the material and hinder its sound assurance quality.

The different types of fences are below:

Wooden Fences 

Red cedar walls make fantastic sound walls, especially if they are worked as strong protection walls. Thick, tongue-and-furrow sheets are ideal. For stunningly better solid hosting, think about introducing mass-stacked vinyl straightforwardly in the wooden fence. This material is sold in rolls. You’ll require the sort marked for outside use. Mass-stacked vinyl sheets are stapled straightforwardly to the edge of the fence, which comprises the posts and rails. The sheets ought to be covered, and any creases ought to be treated with acoustic caulk. At that point, the strong wood boards are secured to the edge, sandwiching the mass-stacked vinyl in the middle of them. 

PVC Privacy Fences 

On the off chance that you’d incline toward a fencing decision that requires less support and upkeep than a wooden fence, consider getting a PVC security fence. PVC walls are accessible in different tones to suit each home’s plan. Commotion decreases the PVC wall highlighting a tongue-and-furrow interlocking framework to successfully block sound waves. 

Tall Fences 

Whichever sort of fence you decide for your property, get some information about the tallest permitted stature for the wall in your region. In spite of the fact that you can’t introduce a fence that isn’t working to code, you can introduce the tallest fence conceivable to those sound waves entering your property. 

Wall with Greenery 

You can decorate both wooden and PVC walls with thick, delicious plant life to make sound stunningly better. You can plant thick bushes and trees between the fence and the street, and additionally between the fence and your home.

Few Extra Tips:

Many of the houses have wooden fences installed, there’s absolutely no need to remove them, you can simply do some modifications to make these wooden fences soundproof. Using a soundproof material called mass-loaded vinyl.

It’s the most popular soundproofing material sold in rolls. Make sure to purchase enlisted for outdoor use.

While in mass-loaded vinyl you need to remove the fence if it is already installed and staple mass-loaded vinyl to the frame of the fence, rails, and fence structure.

However, make sure to overlap the MLV sheets to build a solid barrier. Caulk using acoustical caulk, and at last, attach wooden panels to both sides of the fence such that MLV is sandwiched between the panels.

Final Conclusion

Whichever material you are using you cannot eliminate 100% of noise. You can use it with other elements such as Water fountains and plant materials.

To complement your noise barrier fence, use substantial mass for planning more shrubs or trees. These trees and shrubs will not solve the problem, but they can help in absorbing noise that is left from the noise barrier fences.

You can plant the trees in front or back of the fence or even on both sides. Forever green trees or shrubs are best and will help in your yard’s noise reduction.

Using Water fountains or white noise machines in your backyard is a good idea too. However, keep in your mind that they won’t help in reducing traffic noises. They will help you mask the noise with the soothing sound they produce.

Meanwhile, the best soundproofing depends on how much money you put in order to soundproof your home.

Comment down to share your experiences regarding home fences for noise reduction.