What do you do if your neighbour causes frequent noise pollution during the night, thereby preventing you to sleep?
The police states that the noise level must be at least 55 decibels and the noise must continue for at least 15 minutes, before you can call it noise pollution. The noise pollution can be measured (in Decibels) by the Environmental Protection Agency and they can either inform the other party about it and ask them to stop or otherwise they could also write a ticket.
Is this information correct?
Any comments or experience on how you settled your problems with noise pollution would be appreciated.
My wife contacted the EPA abut road noise and they set up microphones on the roof to measure the noise over the period of a week and took the average of the daily noise to see if it breached regulations.So they are definitely active. Not sure about the household noise, but worth calling them Iād say.
My response has always been a substantial tactical counter-attack. Find the gap in the perimeter and lay down the heavy bass line. Trust not in bureaucrats.
A few neighbours, who were bothered by those disrupting phone calls, also spoke with the phone calling neighbour.
He has promised to seize his nightly phone calls.
Group action usually works best in these situations. Many elderly people donāt realize that their failing hearing means that they need to modulate their own speaking tones ā and many younger people donāt realize that it might be time to upgrade the batteries in their cordless phone.
If a polite discussion doesnāt work, then a ābig-character posterā in Chinese protesting the loud phone calls stuck to the walls of the elevator and front hallway will usually bring an end to the phone calls.
Recent article boy racers noise pollution causeās following.
The government said road noise pollution contributed to health problems, such as heart attacks, strokes and dementia and lost productivity from sleep disturbance.
Theyāve not lived in Taipei, going by this we would all be dead.
I want to buy every single building in Taiwan and put 30 cm of cork cladding covering each one.
Then see how many pencil-dicks still want to waste their energy going vroom vroom.
Or my neighbors screeching āēę„åæ«ęØ!ā with their open window from 11:30 pm to 12:15 am two nights ago (ps, I heard you, other foreigner, shouting expletives at them from your window)
Expanded cork comes from the leftover bits that canāt be made into wine bottle stoppers. They shove them in an autoclave and they expand into sheets like ēē±³é¦. Besides, Iād like to be sober as I enjoy relatively quiet streets, not drunk off wine because I have to put up with so much unnecessary noise. The thing about cork is it absorbs the echo on both sides of the wall, so I can enjoy both a quiet interior and exterior, no matter how much assholes modify their cars and scootersā¦
I know, I know. Iām from one of the biggest producers of both cork and wine. It was just a way to express my hate to windows in Taiwan. Although it was kind of true because no matter how well insulated the walls are if the windows are shite.
The windows here truly are shite. We had a student put his fist through the window once cuz anger management problems. He had to pay to replace it. NT$300 total. Could you have any worse quality than US$10 windows?
