Cohousing-L Mailing List: Attached vs. detached units (was: Affordable Cohousing, Renters vs Owners)

[Bob Morrison (RHmorrison]

  Sharon Villines wrote:

  If you build attached units, particularly one of top of the other, put in
excellent sound barriers. You will be happy you did. One reason people
prefer single family houses is not having to worry about noise -- theirs or
others. [end quote]

  An important component of soundproofing is to put in offset studs in
shared walls, because a lot of the noise that carries between units goes
thru the studs. 

  I visited Two Echo cohousing in Brunswick, ME in 2000 and saw a duplex
unit that was under construction. They pointed out the offset studs and I
got a good look at them. 

 

Bob Morrison