The Kuryans were told when the noise of neighbors is not a reason for complaints

Residents of the Kursk region often complain to the regional Department of Rospotrebnadzor on acoustic discomfort. The reasons are different: hum from engineering systems in apartment buildings, loud sounds from entertainment establishments, noisy behavior of neighbors. The agency has received 92 such requests this year. Each of them was worked out within the statutory deadlines, and all applicants received answers.

However, experts emphasize: Rospotrebnadzor is not authorized to respond to every source of noise. Instrumental measurements and follow-up are only possible in two categories of situations.

The first is external sources. These include transport, production facilities carrying out work on the adjacent territory (repair, construction), ventilation, air conditioning and cooling systems (including those installed on the outside of buildings), sound reproduction equipment of objects (loudspeakers, outdoor audio advertising), loading and unloading operations, as well as industrial enterprises.

The second is internal sources. These are engineering and technological equipment, technological processes, production and other equipment in residential and public buildings, as well as the work of built-in and attached objects, including electroacoustic sound reproduction equipment.

What exactly does the technique refer to engineering and technological equipment? These are ventilation and air conditioning systems, heating (including pumps), air heating, water supply, elevators, garbage conduits, electrical panels, transformer substations, compressors, cooling equipment for the building and built-in facilities - both envisaged by the project and appeared later, after the house was commissioned.

At the same time, the guidelines “Control of noise level in residential buildings, residential and public buildings and premises” contain a list of situations when measurements are not made at all. This list includes noise caused by:

- natural and accidental phenomena;

- actions of citizens violating the silence and public peace in residential buildings and in the surrounding area (household audio equipment in apartments, music, pyrotechnics, loud conversations and singing, home and repair and construction work, manual loading and unloading, slamming doors without a pointer), if this is not related to entrepreneurship;

- sound signals of security, fire and emergency alarms;

rescue and emergency repairs, elimination of the consequences of emergencies, natural disasters and similar situations that are not of a regular or planned nature, including mechanized and non-mechanized snow and ice removal;

- normal activities of people - including sounds from neighboring apartments when walking, moving pets, working household appliances, using engineering and sanitary equipment of bathrooms and bathrooms, if this is not related to entrepreneurship;

- mass events (meetings, marches, demonstrations, etc.);

services, including bell ringing, and other religious rites and ceremonies within the canonical requirements of the respective denominations.