Dealing with Noisy Neighbors? Mike Has the Fix! | Holmes on Homes 512

[@robynw6307]

Loving that last minute or so. Hilarious.

[@ronbennett7885]

Holmes pushes spray foam hard, but better to avoid it whenever possible. Some insurers won't cover homes containing it. Also, more difficult to access wiring and plumbing.

[@pifoeko4580]

Also whenever there is a fire and particularity how houses made when temperature reaches the ignition point and it will it creates a chimney effect in between the studs and the foam gonna burn the house down in seconds. Literaly like a torch soaked in gas!

[@jays106]

@@pifoeko4580 how is that any different than the pink insulation you ever seen how fast that goes up? if you have a fire in a newer house chances are its gone by time fire dept gets there. that is due to the amount of light weight materials used these days

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

Homes has always pushed "the newest thing" hard. Even if it's super early in testing and use, it's also worth mentioning this show is what 15 or so years old? It ran from 2003 to 2008. So on some issues we know better now than what was available then. That said I also think the shows funding kind of depended on it especially in the earlier seasons. A lot of the work was volunteer work, or charity by the various contractors with the cave eat they got a nice introduction and basically endorsement done by Homles on camera. But yeah the main issue with spray foam is it has a lot of room for human error. Spray too much, too fast and you can damage the foam or structure. Removing it is not super easy and tends to be a "remove everything" issue as well.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

As some one who has lived in an apartment most his life I can tell you don't get a Duplex or an adjoining home if you can help it. For the price your paying for that "home" your effectively in an apartment in most aspects. No matter how good the insulation you often can feel or hear your neighbors, you also have to curb your own actions to make sure you don't disturb them. Compared to a house with even just 2 feet of air between buildings it's no contest.

[@MeepChangeling]

Its not so bad if the wall is something nice and solid like a cinder block core.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

@@MeepChangeling Yeah good material and planning can help, but it's still a pain for something your paying that much for. Some duplex's cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for very little space and a shared wall. All that said if you absolutely have to live like that some interior things can help. Nice hanging rug/tapestry or sound proofing material on the adjoining wall can muffle sound. Another help is a "white noise" generator, aka something to drown it out. Tiny little fountain or the like going in the corner can help a ton.

[@angiethundercloud1663]

She is taking pix spot on brilliant ✊🏽👌🏽

[@fredlendzian7082]

Happy Thanksgiving Mike homes

[@Jain1906]

It was October 14th. 🤡

[@AnitaWilkins-u1w]

If you live in a conjoined building you don't post to hear that person will they make it loud noise or music and trying to intervene you don't have to hear all that so I'm glad that he's dear at the right place in time good luck and Happy Thanksgiving to all and God bless 🙏🙏❤️❤️😊😊

[@PrestonHammett]

Putting Teflon tape on a compression fitting is not back up. That is a big mistake. You only use tough tape on pipe thread. The point of a compression fitting is to compress the feral. When you put tape on the thread, you hinder the nut from screwing down. The threats are not what seal the sealer in this joint is the Ferrell.

[@wayneakins7850]

Wrong

[@ronbennett7885]

Cinderblock walls often aren't used anymore between homes. The alternatives don't work as well for both fire and sound. Another reason to buy an older townhome or detached home.

[@MeepChangeling]

Yeah, but the downsides of an old home vastly outweigh all benefits of them.

[@martyplunkett7011]

Miss you Steve Graves! ❤

[@lisakane6708]

The father is the one who passed away

[@gleff3345]

18:45 Mike's look of disappointment in the previous builders. Classic 😐

[@dennisoestermann1880]

Use rockwool between the quit rock. Then there will be almost no sounds at all.

[@josechicosqui2008]

I love your work, i love how you make everything perfect. Your awesome Mike. ❤

[@TheWhale45]

Wow no fire break. They allowed that for awhile here and then there were some house fires and then it got changed again this was back in the 90s. Don't know about now. But way back in the 70s you were required to have a cinder block fire break. That right there is dangerous.

[@b9bot148]

That safe and sound insulation is fire resistant. You can put a torch to that insulation, and it will not catch fire.

[@ronbennett7885]

@@b9bot148 Still not as good as a cinderblock wall. Ideally, using both.

[@prcervi]

@@ronbennett7885 bit late now for the cinderblock wall, you'd have to demo the entire complex to get the space needed and thats if the lot is actually bug enough to accommodate that

[@TheWhale45]

2 inches of spray foam and aluminum double bubble insulation across the studs. Then tape it all off. I couldn't hear people on my front porch.

[@marcparise1391]

I heard a Story of using 2×6 Studs with 2×4 Safe&Sound and Egg Cartons behind that. 0 Decibals. Not sure if that's true but interesting nonetheless🤔

[@force311999]

if the floor deck gos threw un broken then you will hear all the foot trafic

[@markalan3108]

why isn't this spray foam STANDARD? how may times do you have to walk in a home and rooms above the cold zones/garages are freezing cold? our codes in the U.S. as more lax but for you in Canada? I mean how many jobs could you save if the purple spray foam was required?

[@ronbennett7885]

Spray foam is very effective, but comes with some tradeoffs. Safety. Not talking just fire, but off gassing over time. Also, accessibility to wiring, etc underneath can be difficult versus other types of insulation, such as fiberglass. Some insurers won't cover homes with spray foam in some instances. Not a huge issue, but is another thing to consider.

[@Arthaius]

@@ronbennett7885 - Well, I am not a professional or anything, but my thought would be, do the insulation first before you put in plumbing and wiring, that way it will all be un buried, seems like the best way to go about it, and I am of course talking about first build, not renovation, obviously those were already done so might be a little more difficult, but you can bet there is no way I would be burying any pipes or wiring inside the foam, to me that is just common sense, right?

[@cmkeelDIM]

Attached housing in this type of development should be illegal.

[@karenrelay6120]

What’s with the music back ground? Annoying Although love watching you just turn sound off

[@rdhudon7469]

My son is a carpenter and I got him 50 padlocks all keyed the same.😁

[@CalvinMackey-g5f]

go arrest the contractor for attempted murder co2

[@justintrades7851]

i would take wall down, used green glue on all the studs top bottom sides, put sound putty arrouind the outlets, put quick rock in than instead 5/8' drywall i would use sonopan, resilent channel and than 5/8' drywall noise sucks in between house spend money maxoum for quite