Building a sound resistant "Bed Shed"

dehumidified. dessicated. dehydrated.

but yes. go ahead and post the conclusion. if I need to vent about Mrs T's sleeping requirements at a later date, we do have a thread for that.

I can give an educated guess on that. I would guess the motor is not "continuous duty" rated. since a household drill press isn't expected to run on production mode all day, so so it is likely that the motor is not rated to have enough cooling to run continuously.

if you can find the motor nameplate, there should be a "duty cycle" line on it.
www.priestelectric.com/read-electric-motor-nameplate

if it says something like "cont." then it's good to go. if it has a number that is how many minutes it can run at a time.

the motor nameplate is usually on the motor, itself, and may be hard to find or nonexistent on preassembled tools.

if you really want to generate a lot of white noise ans ensuing stunned silence, you could get one of these:


I make an effort to remember my hearing protection when I'm drilling out a house. they run that loud. not quite as loud as core drilling with a hammer drill, but close.

It's been a while. Time to update this.

Let's see. What to say, what to say?...

Well, the unit upstairs has been empty since mid September. Trouble is, a key individual on the board was great friends with the prior upstairs tenant. And, though the official story for her having moved was one based on her "getting married" it is generally understood that there was a noise problem here between us, due to the emails I sent to the board (before I knew that the key board member was close friends with "her"), where such emails contained YouTube videos that pretty well demonstrated the stomping and clomping she was doing approaching midnight.

That embarrassment apparently enraged said board member, such that he took it upon himself to carry on with it all after she left!

How so, you ask?

Well, I heard a pretty strong thump one day, coming from the livingroom area. I managed to quickly look outside, and discovered the man with his outstretched hands still up against the side of my building, making it clear he had just slammed the side of my exterior wall! Then he bolted away, up along the side of the building close. He stayed close to the building, ducking behind hedges and trees until he was around the corner, out of view. I tried to find where he went, but since I had to smash my face up against the window pane just to see this much, I was unable to see him again anywhere else that I quickly looked. By the time I got outside, he was gone of course.

Approaching him and confronting him about it may have been an option for some, but I'm too new here to make such "accusations" of a man on the board, well liked, and his having been here for 15 years to my 1.

Needless to say, he left a warning shot in this way, telling me that this ain't over, even if she has moved.

Sure enough. I occasionally hear "unexplained" thumps and bumps (or actually, I record them via video) that wake me. Since I'm locked away in a sound resistant chamber (I'd imagine those thumps would be way worse without the chamber), I cannot get up and out quickly enough to even attempt "catching" anyone.

So, I've had to grin and bear that.

Then there was the concern for a slight build up of CO2 gases along the bed's sleeping surface. Though there is ventilation, the inlet port and outlet port are both located at the top of the chamber, such that heavier molecules like CO2 stood the chance of collecting as I slept.

With an air quality monitor I was able to confirm that CO2 managed to get as high as 850 ppm.

The solution involved running a vacuum line to the surface of the bed, or slightly lower, to suck up CO2. The "vacuum line" is nothing more than a 5 cm wide hose, running down from the outlet port. Suction provided by the outlet draws air through this hose surprisingly well. Now, readings remain below 500 ppm.

Either of the above CO2 readings is fine for a healthy person. But, for me, my dissolved CO2 runs a bit high at 29 mEg/L. So having ambient CO2 minimized is preferable for me.

The thumps have gotten less frequent, and a new owner is due to move in any time now. My BIGGEST concern is that the idiot board member will again thump such that it makes the new owner wonder if it was me!

www.trailcamjunkie.com/do-trail-cameras-work-through-glass/#:~:text=While%20sitting%20idle%20the%20PIR,%E2%80%9Cnormal%E2%80%9D%20for%20the%20area.&text=This%20detection%20of%20new%20infrared,camera%20to%20take%20a%20photo.

Won't work through a window.

I've set up quasi "night vision esq" cameras with light pointed out from other windows. Can't seem to catch anything this way for some unknown reason.

Bottom line: cameras of ANY sort hung outside where they'd need to be would get striped away by the "board".

Moral of the story?

If you have insomnia bad enough that it could disturb others sleeping, don't live beneath someone if you have squeaky floors.