WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF SOUNDPROOFING YOUR HOME?

According to the Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a monthly scholarly journal, “Tens of millions of Americans suffer from a range of adverse health outcomes due to noise exposure, including heart disease and hearing loss.”  The negative health effects of noise and unwanted sounds on the human body were recognised as early as 1981 by the EPA. Where an estimated 50% of the population of the United States whose exposure to traffic noise was to be harmful to people’s health.  Here is an illustration of just a few negative effects that noise can have your on health: