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Neighbour noise
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A shutter will not fix a party wall. It can dull noise that arrives through a window onto a loud side passage or a pub garden.
What the wall will allow
If the complaint is impact noise through the wall, you are in a different trade.
A worked pane
The worked opening for Neighbour noise is 4.2 m wide by 2.1 m high, 8.82 square metres of glass. This figure puts 470 watts per square metre on the pane and uses a g-value of 0.7, about 2902 watts into the room if the curtain is up. An opaque external shutter, taken as stopping 85 percent of that gain while it is fully down, leaves about 435 watts and keeps about 2467 watts out. That is a noon figure for comparison. An internal blind does not get the same reduction. For Neighbour noise, use the noon figure to compare two openings on the same house, then let a measured survey replace the figure.
An internal blind does not get that reduction, because the energy has already crossed the glass.
After dark
Winter figure for Neighbour noise: glass at 1.4 W/m2K, 8.82 square metres, a 12 degree inside-outside gap and eight night hours. The bare pane is about 1.19 kWh a night on that crude sum. A closed shutter cutting about 24 percent of the flow leaves 0.90 kWh and saves about 0.28 kWh a night, only while it is down. Open it when you want winter sun.
Stop conditions
Stop Neighbour noise if the only place for the box is a listed street front and nobody has written advice from the council. A photograph is not a manufacturing size.
Liverpool is only a setting for Neighbour noise. The streets there are not the product.
How to use the figure
The 4.2 by 2.1 metre opening inside Neighbour noise is there so a quote has something to disagree with. If the tape gives a different size, the tape wins.
The example drive is a wired motor, and the illustration is £5,670. A belt, a wired motor and a solar motor can share a curtain and still be different jobs. Compare those lines, not a single bold total.
What the survey still has to write down
For Neighbour noise, ask where the box lands, what colour reference will be ordered, and how the curtain opens when the motor is dead. Those three answers move the job more than a rounded price.
Leave the lantern, the side light and the next elevation off the order unless they are drawn. Neighbour noise covers one kind of opening. The house may have three.
When I would not order yet
Neighbour noise should wait if the opening is an escape door with no way to raise a dead motor, or if the front is the elevation a conservation area was drawn to protect.
A photograph is not a manufacturing size. Two quotes for Neighbour noise only compare when the slat, the box and the drive are the same kind of thing.
Questions worth asking the fitter
Is the price on this page a quote?
No. £5,670 illustrates Neighbour noise for a 4.2 by 2.1 metre opening with a wired motor, at September 2026 rates. Your survey replaces it.
Does the shutter cover every pane?
It covers the opening it is built for. Here that example is 8.82 square metres. A roof lantern, a side light or the next elevation is another line.
What if planning is unclear?
Do not pay the factory for Neighbour noise until a listed building, a conservation front, a flat or a shopfront has a written answer. Ordinary rear walls on houses are sometimes simpler.
What should two quotes share?
The same openings, the same slat type, and the same drive. Neighbour noise uses a wired motor in the example so you can see how much the motor choice moves £5,670.