situation: your broker shows you a fifth floor apt in a high-rise building in an area where there are no others.
you think: score! great views, no neighbors to peep through windows, no possibility of a burglar accessing/entering the building via roof from a neighboring building without possessing a helicopter.
reality: on a blustery evening, your windows will be so incredibly battered by the wind that you are kept awake the entire night.
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Ah, the giddy excitement of looking at property, and the crashing realisation that the vast majority of places you look at will be crap-tastic.
I remember it well…
Here's a simple solution that should help:
Fold up some paper towels and shove them in the gaps between the windows and the window frame. If the folded paper towels won't stick, fold them over again to double the thickness until they jam the window solid. That ought to reduce your banging noises.
It's the same principle as pennying someoen inside their dorm room.
crap-tastic indeed, tim! at least it all still LOOKS pretty, even though we're finding flaws.
thanks chuckles - i wish it was just rattling that we could stop, but the windows are brand new, so they aren't shaky. its more the wind itself just beating on the building that is so damn sleep-shattering.
get yourself some Hear-O's, available at your favorite retail drugstore. They're little squishy blue oval shaped things that you stick in your ears for blissful silence while sleeping. if they can drown out my wife's snoring, they most certainly will drown out the wind!
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