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Driveway ideas to reduce noise and vibrations

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.36 PM

Hello My driveway is about 5 metres in length (I.e from the front door to the pavement) I live on a fairly busy road with passing lorries and buses etc When large vehicles drive past, you can to some extent feel the vibrations on the wall albeit ever so slight - there’s also quite a lot of noise when a large vehicle drives by I’m thinking of refurbishing my driveway - I wanted to ask if there any ideas for reducing noise and vibrations through the ground? Any special type of shrubs that reduce noise? Any special type of concrete etc that can reduce the vibrations? Any ideas or advice would be much appreciated Thanks

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4 Answers

BobaJob Maintenance

Rating: 4.7 out of 5

Wakefield

Laurel hedges and plenty of river sand mixed in with soil when planting the hedges

Answered16 January 2021

MP Landscaping

Rating: 5 out of 5

Chester

Planted hedgerow for noise reduction and block paved drive with suitable sub base with limestone fines screed infill for vibration reduction

Answered29 January 2021

KMM/LAND/SOLUTIONS LTD

Rating: 4.9 out of 5

Hemel Hempstead

Instead of sharp sand use 2/6mm limestone to lay paving. This will cut more than 40 percentage of vibrations and laurel hedges besides

Answered19 January 2021

DPE Groundworks

Rating: 5 out of 5

King's Lynn

I don't belive the hedging will deal with the vibration ... only noise , and for a hedge to be affective it would need to be fairly dence... not great with such a small frontage. There is no real solution other than digging a deep trench across the front of the property and filling it with a silty sand. This would reduce some of the vibration traveling through.

Answered6 February 2021