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Outside noises and old windows - is there anything I can do?

jlc102482
13 years ago

My house was built in 1857 and still has its original windows and exterior storm windows. The house next door to us is quite close by, and unfortunately one of our master bedroom windows faces it. Even more unfortunately, the house is full of loud, annoying, unsupervised teenagers and you can often hear them pretty clearly from inside the master bedroom. It generally drives me insane. (No, they're not loud enough to call the police over, and anyway, our police definitely do not care about loud people.)

Is there anything at all I can do to the window on that side to stop noise from coming in so much? I can't see daylight through any gaps (I don't see any gaps at all, actually) so I don't know what I could do, if anything. It's a smallish double-hung window with an exterior storm on it.

Thanks so much!

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