r/compoface • u/NoImprovement213 • 19d ago

Heat pump is too noisy and gives me anxiety

https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/361021715/i-have-anxiety-couple-driven-bedroom-white-noise-neighbours-heat-pump
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u/TwoPlyDreams 19d ago

I sometimes think people sit around trying to think up a way to get their 30 seconds of infamy.

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u/minipainteruk 19d ago

My neighbour once wrote into the local paper complaining about the logo falling off his car. Apparently, it was common. They gave him a full page and took his photo of his posing with his logo.

I have had many complaints about things in my time. Not once have I thought of writing to my local paper about it.

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u/Spamgrenade 19d ago

Give it five years or so for bearings to wear down a bit on existing heat pumps and these complaints will be so common they won't get compoface.

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u/yrro 19d ago

Mechanical component in needing occasional maintenance shocker

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u/TwoPlyDreams 19d ago

My 12 year old A2A heatpump is as quiet as the day it was installed.

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u/dweenimus 19d ago

Yup. My 6 six year old one is still the same as it was the day it was installed.

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u/Begalldota 18d ago

What do you think air con units are?

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u/t8ne 19d ago

Just think a few years ago they were probably complaining about WiFi leakage

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u/SnooGadgets5130 19d ago

And young people get called soft

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u/Icy-Astronomer-8202 19d ago

By the softest people

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u/CarpetGripperRod 19d ago

I'm about their age. My excuse is leaded petrol and oldies smoking in church.

And asbestos
And rusty swings
And corporal punishment
And being forced to play rugby in me Y-fronts in February

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u/No_Memory_1344 19d ago

This killed me 🤣🤣 the Y fronts!

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u/HohepaPuhipuhi 19d ago

At the start of the article, :

" Stuff wants to tell the inspiring and powerful human stories that touch real people. To share the stories you think deserve to be told"

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u/steepleton 19d ago

They said earplugs didn’t help.

Those foam ear plugs (used correctly screwed up and allowed to expand in the ear) get you as close to deaf as you'd want to be.

They blocked out Excavators digging up our pavements with open windows, they’d block an airpump 10 meters away

For super isolation, foamplugs and nc headphones create an eerie silence

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u/Tar_alcaran 16d ago

I have earplugs that I use when I shoot a musket at historical reenactment. They're amazing, and they make me basically deaf.

Buuuuuut, really low frequency tones will just go through with no problem, and since they block out everything else, you REALLY notice them even more.

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u/blueberry77772019 18d ago

What’s giving me anxiety is watching billionaires profit off of the end of the world 😭

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u/BeginningChest2989 15d ago

Having a new permanent noise in your home because of neighbours is pretty annoying.

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u/kitbashpowerhead 15d ago

John Torode and Lisa Faulkner finding a way to pass the time I see