Main road noise reduction

[MissMoonshine]

Has anyone, who lives on a 60pmh road, had noise reducing windows? Do they work? What type did you get? What was the rough cost (and when did you get them)?

Context:

I recently moved into a house that is right on the road (40mph) zone, but cars regularly go past at 60mph+. During commuter times the noise becomes mentally unbearable (e.g., if I've woken up at 6am and I want to go back to sleep until 7am, I just hear every car go past, and it is quite loud). The road I'm on feeds into a 60mph place in between two towns, I'm on the edge of town.

The windows are old, so could probably benefit from re-doing. However, I only plan to live here for another 2-3 years. At the same time, I feel like the sounds is damaging my mental health and causing stress.

My DM has triple glazing I believe, and is very happy with it.

Triple glazing works well and as does secondary glazing

We were given triple glazed windows as our house is just within the flight path. They are pretty effective. Though only gave them to us for certain rooms, upstairs bedrooms were changed. I don’t hear the airport noise early morning any more which is a noise I’ve been familiar to in my past.

Consider also acoustic fencing and planting hedges and trees. There's a type of secondary glazing made of acrylic which is supposed to still have the benefits of the glass version while being much cheaper. When we looked at it they had a waiting list years long for installation. What are your windows now? Single or double glazed?

What kind of cost is double and triple glazing these days for an average size window? How about secondary glazing? (E.g., a few hundred per window, a few thousand)

Do they replace the whole window and frame, or just the glass? The window frame is very ugly, I would love to have the whole thing ripped out and something more attractive put in. But I have no idea of costs (it's my first house).

I will look into getting some proper quotes, but I also don't want to waste people's time if it's way out of my price range. As I said, this isn't my forever home so I'm wary about paying out loads of money on it.

I have double glazing now, but I expect it's blown and over 15-20 years old.

If you have an Alexa you could ask her to play rain sounds and that blocks out quite a bit of noise. Might help as a quick fix while you wait for windows. Or ear plugs?

I love near aain road and I know you pain.

I play white noise all night and it has literally transformed my life

I've been thinking about ear plugs, I used to wear them in the past at uni, but these days many hurt my ears. Might look into it again. I never thought of white noise.

My windows also have this plastic window trim I hate - the more I think about it, the more I hate the house and want to move 🤣

Example of awful window trim - any idea why this would be here and whether it could be replaced?

It’s a waste of time now installing good double / triple glazing now as regulations state you need a big hole in the frame ( trickle vents ). So defeating the object. Even when closed they still let noise through.