She sees me all bag-eyed and yawning and groggy during the day. She is, however, sleeping fitfully because she knows I am suffering with the noise. My wife sleeps through it, but she can sleep in very noisy situations. If one was really tired, or a bit drunk or on medications, they might not even notice it. And this sound, mind you, is just barely loud enough to keep a person awake, but moreso if they are sensitive like me. No reason why it shouldn’t, we figured – it has worked before.
I see the other super later in the day, he tells me he tightened the thing again and hopes it will work. I tell him the sound is back and needs fixed again. I figured that with the heat we were having, I was unlikely to sleep that well anyway, so I just let it slide. Being a holiday weekend, I figured nothing would get done until Tuesday anyway, so I toughed it out and didn’t call it in. That was the 26th or 27th.įriday the 29th, the sound was back. I saw the super in the hall the next day and told him thanks, and to thank the other guy for me please. It seems to get worse in the hotter weather. Then, on June 25th or 26th, I noticed that it was back. This led them, and me, to conclude that the fan was, indeed, the source of the bothersome and mysterious Low-F sound. They quickly adjusted something or other on said unit, and the sound was gone. I had noticed the sound months before (… it might have even been last summer, but I am pretty sure it was just this past spring heat wave….) and mentioned it to the superintendent, suggesting it might be the fan unit. Hard for 2-3 seconds, softer for 5-7, then hard for 2-4, then soft again. No, this sounds like a bigger, heavier motor, that is running 24/7, and, and something has gone wrong with it, so it groans slightly….
HEADACHE ANNOYING SOUNDS SERIES
Nor is the sound cycling through a series of timed sound changes, like someone doing laundry in the laundry room upstairs, or running a contraband dishwasher or washing machine in their apartment. It isn’t a constant, ongoing noise, like a neighbour’s window AC or a fan. It is not something that happens once in a while, like a basement sump pump. “rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” It sort of hums along like normal, then it gets lower and “harder”, like motor bearing down to move something. When we sit on the toilet, stand in the bathroom, or try to sleep in the bed, we can feel this subtle, low-frequency sound. So in my building, this vent unit on the roof has been sending a low-frequency hum down my apartment walls. And low-frequency noises can travel far along beams and down support walls and so on. Those big, boxy fan units that suck the stale air from the hallways and other common areas of the building and send it skyward… well they make noise, and they often need maintenance. The sound – I am guessing – comes from the ventilation system on the roof of my building, one floor above me. I have been living with a similar nightmare for the past 10 nights… June 29th to the morning of July 8.
We have all experienced something like that, right? We all understand that low-frequency sounds can be disturbing, even though you can’t “hear” them, right?
You feel compelled to go talk to the person in the truck and get them to stop, or leave.
The idling was tedious enough, but this intermittent “vroom-vrooming” is now bothersome. Now imagine the occupant of that garbage truck ever-so gently pushing the gas pedal down, so that the sound gets ever-so-slightly louder. A soft, low-frequency hum can be felt, not unlike the hum that comes from a refrigerator, only stronger and lower. You don’t hear it with your ears, you feel it with your whole body. Imagine that a garbage truck is idling outside your home.
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