Noise and vibration problems

What is the noise that disturbs sleep?

Noise countermeasures are difficult

If you are already running an inn, I think that every day you are making various efforts to prevent the noises and vibrations that hinder your customers’ sleep.

Isn’t the bed position one of the few things that can be devised?

For example, no inn would place a bed where there is a bedside bed in front of the door of the guest room. There are worrisome choices about the bed position.

For example, if a bed in a guest room is placed next to a bed in the next room across a wall, the customer may be concerned about the sound that can be heard from the next room.

On the other hand, if the place where the TV in the next room is placed is close to the bedside in the guest room, the customer may be concerned about the noise he/she hear from the TV.

And if the customer recognize the sound, he/she will always be worried about it.

Also, if earplugs are provided in the guest room, it may be anxious to think that the guest room wall is too thin and noisy at night.

If we know someone snore, we can forgive them, but it’s frustrating if someone we don’t know is snoring.

Vibration problems that are often overlooked

The vibrations of the air conditioner in the guest room and the sound of the refrigerator and ventilator also interfere with sleep.

The air-conditioning, refrigerator, and ventilation fan can be replaced with new ones or hidden by the door, so we can expect the sound-deadening effect immediately.

However, the walls that separate the guest rooms cannot be easily changed.

If the noise in the guest room is too loud, the staff also needs to pay attention to the customer. However, it is not possible to be careful in advance, such as when checking in, to be quiet between customers.

However, what I realized when I managed my inn was that the customers were relatively tolerant of the sounds made by other customers.

Even if they can hear the snoring sound of the guest in the next room, they can sleep relatively.

Rather, it seems that the vibration of machinery and the sound and vibration of the car that can be heard from outside the inn are the factors that hinder deep sleep.

Even if it’s so small that we don’t know it if we don’t pay attention to it consciously, we can feel the danger from the sound and vibration of the car. Mechanical vibrations that do not exist in nature unconsciously feel uncomfortable and hinder deep sleep.

Vibration of machinery is suppressed by using vibration prevention sheets etc., and double windows are used for car vibration and sound emitted from the outside of the window, or a window shaking prevention pad can be used for existing windows.