A sound solution...
Increasing numbers of machines, people, buildings and technology means our world is getting noisier. And this issue isn’t just limited to the outside world, with new research by Geberit finding that unwanted noise inside the home affects more than half of us – and it’s having a direct impact on our wellbeing. Here, Sophie Weston, Channel Marketing Manager for Specification and Developer at Geberit, explores the significance of unwanted noise in the home, and why, in its new White Paper (A Sound Solution) it is calling for a radical rethink of acoustic regulations in residential environments. We can all understand the enormous impact of persistent loud noises; in fact the World Health Organisation, which has tracked noise levels for the past decade, portrays noise pollution as an ‘underestimated threat’.
Yet, consider the noises we hear every day inside our homes. The ones perhaps not related to volume or pitch - a dripping tap, the whirr of an extractor fan, or even a flushing toilet. To get a great insight into the impact of these noises on our wellbeing, we surveyed more than 2,000 people across the UK – and this highlighted a wider problem than we all may have first thought.