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Real Estate Show Place Dec 6 1978 7 Keeping out noise New standards set by CMHC When most of us think of pollution we think of air and water being destroyed But there is another kind of pollution disrupting our en v iron en t noise pollution Noise unwanted sound It can make conversation fieul I concentration slble and sleep an unrealized dream In a bid to reduce the noise menace Ihe Central Mori gage and Housing Corpora lion recently set new stand ards of acceptable home noise levels They will apply to hornet built after July 1MB with National Housing Act financing These stand art the product of a ten year CMfIA financed study by Ihe National Research Council into on daily life of two of the most common sound offenders road railway noise Research determined dB decibels is the maximum level at which comfortable conversation can be carried on If sound levels in your living room or dining room are higher you arc raising your voice to talk and straining to hear In activity areas hallways kitchens bathrooms to I crab It noise levels are naturally higher with a maximum of Undisturbed sleep requires extra quiet so bedroom noise levels arc set at dB standards arc con with n use outside the home as well as Inside If people are enjoy heir gar dens palios and balconies ihey must be free from the roar of passing traffic or the clatter of a nearby railway outdoors is bound to be noisier than controlled en in the home outside noise levels should not exceed This allows people to talk at close range without raising their voices For most of us are only wo broad categories of sound distinction noisy and So how do scientists ermine such precise noise levels As amazing as It may seem they have developed a complex mathematical for to determine noise levels for each room in a house and for the lot outside This formula takes into ac count homes distance from source the nature of the noise source the natural topognphy of house site and the materials from which the house is con true ted If outside levels art at no more lhan dB construction meeting the residential standards of the Renting Check the lease Horn ownership is con part of dim dream In reality is not r ioung people elect for In of Their carters art in and needs undetermined them thf flcxibiht win Older people art regularly giving up owner ship of thiir homes for rtntnl accommodation where snow removal and grass culling art tht landlord rcsponsibt lily lastly many famil ics rent while they are saving o buy a home As with home ownership rental should not take more than percent of your gross income Tins figure can be adjusted modestly upwards or downwards depending on where housing falls on your list of priorities When find a rental tin i the is legalized sennit a lease tht landlord Tin describes of rtnt and conditions paymtni the rtilts of incs instant if pels art milled Hit liiifih of least Provincial onrnnitnts hive laws ensuring the rental is fair to both tin ant and landlord Tht law tenant lo renew the least so the landlord toss him out on whim the landlord and tenant cannot agree on terms of the lease such as rent The dispute Is then brought before the provincial rent control board or lent authority which rules on tht nutter Thisi rentals do not runot rtsponsibililj to set is fur rt id it thorouRlih iking sort its ind should lit premises before note of any hit factory Mike sure repairs and changes art written In Hit with a linit for As a ten you do not have as big an investment in your home as an owner but should still protect yourself against loss by fire or theft will cover this as well as any damage you might cause to the property of the landlord or other tenants Canadian Building Code would normally keep out ex cess noise Housing where noise levels run between dB and can qualify Cor NHA financing if adequate sound insulation is provided Housing where the outside noise levels exceed is automatically disqualified from financing Intelligent planning in the early stages can save time and money Making use of the natural features of a site and its surroundings can reduce Ihe noise impact on proposed housing or hilly ter rain will act as a barrier to noise and provide prolccllon to nearby homes Where ural features cannot be used to reduce noise levels there ire a number of simple lions that can be adopted The most effective is to increase the distincc between Ihe the house or alternately to construct mounds of earth or barriers made of concrete brick wood or metal which will cut down the noise level Inside the house the ex noist levels may be re duced to acceptable limits by improving the construction of the outside shell of the building for solid doors provide hi best lection agilnsl noise wluli single hollow core offers he least protection windows proicelion while staled windows provide m reduction In the internal layout rooms where is needed such is bedrooms should be located on the side of the house farthest from fie Noice is more than a live in and their it is a hazard our dings much can be done to physical and emotional counter the noise menace and health Qui improving the make dally living more plea standards of the homes we Construction going metric Mctriflcallon the term still boggles the minds of many Canadians even though Ibis country started down the road metric con version eight years ago Conversion to metric is not merely change for change sake Most nations in the world operate on the international d unites or SI Tins system is based on units of len and it provides measurements for all physical qualities in present day technology Metric decimal base and unit coherence mean in dustries can avoid cumber some conversion factors re quired for so many everyday calculations in the imperial system Not only is the metric system ultimately more simple he old imperial system its application to induslrns will help markets for I inidian ind passed in of the invest hurdles on the rood to metric con version On January I the construction industry began operating in the new Now ill plans drawings specifications and mattnols arc in metric units In cooperation with the in the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation con verted its internal operations to metric Naturally this change takes a period of adjustment lime to replace old imperial mental images with new metric ones Metric housing projects already success fully underway in several Canadian communities area tribute o relative cose with which conversion can lake place once old pre judices are given up The key to successful conversion is adopting a metric mentality learning think in ihe new system units In the construction industry the effects of metric con icrsion art paradoxical Obviously aspect of an industry so dependent on is though this widespread thinei bird noticcablt The needs of people in their mes an offices remain so door heights window sues and floor spaces ire not altered Tht kitchen counter height in most homes is slightly under feet The new metric kitchen 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