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Posted by Nehmo Sergheyev on August 9, 2006, 12:06 am
polar wrote:
> I prefer to leave in a flat which is not made of wood or paper walls.
> As a tenant often I had problems hearing other people's TVs or
> private conversations which resulted in wasting quite some time trying
> to relocate.
>
> Is there any way I could say about the construction from the external
> look or shape, age or any other way.
>
> I think I have noticed a correlation that houses which have a flat
> roof, tend to be made of cement rather than wood.
Concrete is more sound resistant than wood, but even in concrete
construction of apartments the dividing walls are usually not made of
concrete. And certainly, wood-frame construction can be made to be
sound proof.
If all you're concerned about is sound, just find some other way to
determine how quiet a structure is. It's impossible to tell form the
outside just by looking.
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(||) Nehmo (||)
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