Occupants complained of anti-social behaviour; high rental and heating costs; impact noise entering their homes resulting from use of the pedestrian access decks; an inability to personalise the exterior of their homes; an absence of private garden spaces for the mid-level family duplexes; remoteness from local shopping and public transport facilities; and pollution from the oil-fired power plant.
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The most common complaint concerns " impact noise " from an apartment above, so the place to start is the ceiling . " You have to float the ceiling, " he said, referring to a soundproofing technique that creates a secondary ceiling below the original, with air space between, and that can cut noise from 50 percent to 70 percent.
