Does anyone have triple or quadruple glazing?

[Purpletortoise]

Outside noise wakes me up at night. I’ve tried every type of earplug and find them all ineffective. At the moment I have double glazing in my bedroom, and I’m wondering whether it would be worth getting triple or quadruple glazing. If anyone has this, I’d be very interested to hear how much difference it makes.

We have triple and it definitely makes a difference. We live on a main road and it no longer wakes us up when lorries come past at 4am from the factory up the road.

That said, it's an old house, and we went straight from single to triple, so I can't really comment on what it would have been like with double.

We have triple glazed windows in my block of flats. Helps that I'm not on a main road, but my flat is super quiet. The only noise I ever hear is via the front door (if neighbours are speaking in the corridor). I don't get much if any noise from outside the building.

We have triple glazed windows downstairs and double glazed upstairs. It really cuts out the noise, to the extent that when the road was being dug up at the end of our street, I couldn’t hear it at all downstairs, but could hear the noise upstairs.

We have triple glazed windows, they work well but the house is no where near sound proof for other reasons.

most of our noise comes from the front door which leads straight from the road to our sitting room so we still hear every passing vehicle and loud person. A couple of ladies were having a conversation on my door step earlier far to loud. When it came to an end I shouted ‘bye then, thanks for the news’ from my sofa. Scared the shit out of them to realise how close I was. Bless them both and Sarah with her marriage issues.

@Twickerhun that gave me a bit of a guffaw I have to say

@Twickerhun Lol!

Thank you very much for the replies. It’s great to hear that triple glazing does make a difference. Sounds like it might be worth getting.

Just also be mindful of any other sources of noise as others have said. We have double glazing but they have vents in the top of the frames and we have vents to the outside in the walls in a couple of rooms also as it was needed for ventilation for the gas fire.

The gas engineer said if we're using the gas fire (for warmth) we should ensure the vent is open (to let the cold air in)...

If you don't have any other vents then you're going to seal your house and keep out the noise better, but the consequence of that be that you may find you get more condensation, so you'll need to ensure you ventilate the house when you don't need it quieter.

I needed that laugh @Twickerhun

I had the thickest double glazing in our last house and it was good but if I were ever to replace windows and doors again it would be triple glazing

You can also get specialist acoustic glazing - often installed in houses that are visible from the motorways and also acoustic vents

@ivfbeenbusy That’s interesting - I’ll look into that.

@TigerDrawers Very good point. I have an air vent from the shower running through my bedroom to the outside. I wonder whether that could be letting noise in.