AnthonyL wrote:
I've ended up moving next to a woodworking enthusiast. Although our
properties (bungalows) are detached his garage is right next to (like
within an inch or two) of my office/spare bedroom extension.

He has equipment such as circular saw, planer, lathe etc in the garage
and the sound and vibration resonates through our house.

Of course if the properties had been built garage to garage the
problem would have been minimised but all the garages are to the left
of the properties.

Anyhow has anyone got experience on the efficacy or otherwise of
vibration pads such as


http://www.antivibrationcomponents.c...ion-pads/p2051

or similar, or any other ideas?


Rubber pads/mounts will decouple the source from the foundations which
you probably share and help with that transmission path but I'd expect
the main route to be through the walls and open windows.
The noise from a lathe should be quite low apart from intermittent cuts
when starting off a square blank to make it round.
A planer, assuming three knives, will predominate at around 200Hz and a
saw will have blade tooth related noise in the 1-2kHz range. If it has a
brush motor, there will be the banshee wail from that too although most
serious woodworkers will have induction motor powered machinery and the
noise generated will mainly be when actually cutting.

Low frequency vibration suggests that one or more machines has something
out of balance which would be unusual and highly desirable to fix at source.

I think you can get simple frequency analysis apps for phones these days
which might give you an idea of the frequency ranges you are dealing
with and hence the type of solution.
A/V mounts and pads are only likely to attenuate very low frequency
vibrations.