Helpful Mike, thank you so much for this tutorial! I live on a busy street in San Francisco, and this has significantly helped reduce the noise coming in through my bay windows. I ordered 3/16 acrylic from Tap Plastics (they’re fantastic!), used metal window screen clips, and 1/4 x 1/8 foam around the edges. Again, thank you!

I'm not even lying. Every Mike I've encountered has been helpful. That is so crazy.

A year later and you’ve saved another city dweller. I can’t wait to share this to everyone 🙏🏼

Oh boy Indow Wiindow people will be mad, for same setup they will charge you $1000, thanks for the video

I hope more people share stories about barking dogs

Two years later and I’m really contemplating trying this because I’m in a similar situation: I just want the dogs to sound like they are outside - not sitting on my coffee table! Fingers crossed. Thanks for this.

What a legend. Puts where the tutorial begins in the title so viewers can skip right to it instead of looking at the comments. Legend

I was going to buy Indows but they cost more than a new window at Lowe's. After watching the Indow video I figured I could build the same thing myself being there's no moving parts. Pretty straightforward if you ask me, and you just proved it. Job well done sir.

Yasss! This IS the tutorial I need right now! Thanks a bunch!😜

Holy cow!! Mike is not only helpful. Mike is a genius!!!

Helpful Mike, you're living up to your name! I recently moved to a new neighborhood and 4th of July here sounds like an actual war zone on all sides. My dog was a complete wreck, which made it a very stressful night. I will absolutely be looking into this solution for at least one room in my house. Thank you!

Living in the Mission and dealing with a similar situation. Thank you so much!

Hey Mike. Just wanted to say great idea. I spent money and time building an entire window (and frame out of wood and plexiglass) when I could've just done what you did. Wish I'd seen this sooner!!!

Absolutely brilliant, I was thinking along similar lines and then your video came up . Thanks so much

Thank you for this wonderful presentation. It is clear, possible, and important. I know because I just moved to a new apartment. I enjoy having more space.... but people love to launch booming fireworks in my neighborhood. I think you know what I'm getting at.

Thank you Helpful Mike. I followed your DIY guide with a 1/4 inch thick plexiglass from Tap, 1/4 thick weather stripping, and 3/8 inch window clips. The car noise is dramatically reduced. My window is large enough for the plexiglass to be quite heavy. So I needed someone to help me put it in place. Other than that, this project was exactly as your video showed. Kudos for coming up with a very smart and effective DIY project. Thanks for putting it out into the world!

That is a smart mind at work. He got all the right things and installed it the right way. Boss mode. if the bottom lip of your window does not stick out like he said may be your case, just buy L brackets and screw them under your window with one of the sides faces towards you. That way you can use the surface of the L bracket to mount the glass on it. Make sure to use three L brackets per window to give good support to the plexiglass that may be heavy. Only do this if you screw into sturdy studs.

Indow window needs to make prices reasonable. So glad I stumbled on your channel.

Thank you so much. Mine isn’t so much the noise but for privacy for a small bathroom shower window. Frosted one side and can still clean the side in shower. Great temporary fix.

great stuff very helpful.. im from Australia i have a bedroom window facing near the next door back yard and well a lot of noise comes from there specially on the weekend.. so i will look in to this idea thank you for your video..

I’m so grateful to have found this video, so thanks so much! In our house our outdoor a/c unit is right outside our bedroom. We have two windows and have already installed a condenser blanket, which reduced the sound some. We’ve been looking at double layer “soundproof” curtains but the Sykes are limited and we don’t really need blackout. I’m a super light sleeper and the cycling on of our a/c wakes me up. Going to try your solution as your crowd demonstration really sold me! Thanks again.

I'm at that exact part of figuring out how to attach the TAP Acrylic sheet to my window. I was thinking of using a Router to cut inserts in wood for installation, but you have a great idea with the window clips-THANKS SO MUCH.

Thanks Mike! I'm going to try it. The little demo you did made a big difference.

Thank you so much for this Mike! We just moved to an apartment with very heavy traffic and need creative solutions. Cannot wait to try this!

That is the simplest, most elegant solution I have seen, and I've looked around. Granted, I haven't tried it yet, but I am going to!! Very impressed. Thank you!!

Thanks a million Helpful Mike! I used this method for winterization. Worked like a charm.

Thanks for the tutorial. You just saved my next-door neighbors dog's life.

Great tutorial. I'm going to try it! Thank you.

Thank you. I've been searching for an affordable way to take care of my barking dog problem. I'm going to give this a shot!

What a great idea buying the thicker material for much less! Sadly my windows are practically flush with the walls, but thanks for mentioning the need for air space for it to work or I would have wasted time & money trying this.

This video is why I love YT. Thank you so much.

Great idea, I have a barking dog neighbor issue also.

Best solution I've seen yet. Well done!

Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for this video.

Nyc resident here living on a Main Street, thank you SO much for this tutorial!

Thank you Mike...your tutorial is excelente ...has helped me a lot. God bless you

Brilliant! Ty for this! I’m in the Bay Area too and just got a quote from Indow that was too $$$ for me. Might give this a try.

Thank you so much for this. I just bought a place that I checked up on multiple times of the day before and during the closing process to make sure it was acceptably quiet. Just my luck, an incredibly rude and loud neighbor moved in days after I did (either that or the prior owners had been paying him to stay quiet so they could sell the place, lol). I'm talking sits outside with massive speakers connected to his car stereo blasting music all day. I'm gonna try this otherwise I'll have to put my beautiful new place that I was so happy to be moving into back on the market :(

Homedepot sells a 36 in. x 72 in. x .220 in. Acrylic Sheet for about $164 and they have different sizes. It may need cutting so buy, borrow or rent a skill saw and cut to size and add insulating rubber. Quarter inch sound proofs and resists the heat and cold which lowers the utility bill if added to all windows. Also you can buy Lucite or other versions of acrylic competitive products some are flexible & some are rigid for whatever is best. In the old days people would use clear plastic & some still do but your idea is way better. The alternative, feed those dogs peanut butter, lol.

Great info. Thanks for sharing what you discovered. Going to try this

I can hear it from my laptop great! Your invention made a huge difference. I love how you sealed it too Brilliant, Mike. Subscribed. I will share the video. After losing so much income and damage to health, I’m finally close to getting a house. So, I’m saving this method both to share and in case there is any noise problem. Seriously, you are genius for figuring this out. I’ve watched and read a lot to solve problem here. YOU figured it out, right down to including the air gap, using outside the casing. I don’t know if you have seen it, but a window specialist on KZfaq shows creating a box frame around the window, And from there, he had plexiglass with rubber around it custom made. Yours is simpler, much more affordable, doesn’t require the box frame for depth of air space and creates a tight seal with removable plexiglass! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT. I am now armed and ready when I move My neighbors in side by side duplex dog train and bang with kids upstairs day and night as well as the neighborhood basketball gang 15-20ft from my single pane windows, refusing to have any regard or balance. Morning to night, inside or out. They teach their children to be that disrespectful and intrusive of others space. Air space is one’s home. We share it! I’ll be getting a cheap house, discounted. There is still the possibility of undue noise. I’m ready now.

I'd love to try it!

Definitely want to try this and will see if I can

Great DIY! Thanks for the video.

Amazing work friend, thank you very much!!!

I have a similar window ledge. I was thinking about doing something similar and your video popped up, thank you. I want to use the window ledge to get the maximum distance from the window, even though I don't know how to quantity the improvement I will get by using that additional 10/16 inches of added distance. I'll probably find some white silicone seal to place on the 1/4" acrylic and use a similar bracket system you are using.

You are a blessing I'm definitely going to try this.. thank you so much.

I just did this. “Made it sound like they were barking outside my unit, not inside” is a pretty good way to sum it up. I live in Brooklyn and my window faces one of the stations for the J train. Everytime the train came to the station I thought it was inside my room. The glass definitely reduced the noise but doesn’t make it whisper quiet. Helpful overall. Cost was ~$200 for everything I don’t have the ledge that you have. Instead, I got these heavy duty metal clips and fastened some on the bottom side and rest the glass on top of them. Thank you for the video!

I got an estimate today for 2k for 3 windows. so happy I found this.. going to find a place to give me cuts!

I once moved into a place where I only found out ,too late, that the building behind me had water heating from a coal boiler - which was lit and stoked every morning at about 3am! (15 ft from my bedroom window) If you can imagine the shovelling of the coal, then the loud 'CLANG' of a grating being closed.... Luckily my dad worked at a factory which made plexiglass, and it was possible to buy quite large off-cuts very very cheaply! I put a temporary wooden frame within the window opening, which supported the plexiglass over the quite large window. As you said - not perfect - but a big improvement!

There are several different manufactures of ultrasonic dog bark trainers that will emit a sound that the dog can hear and will train them NOT TO BARK!! It takes about 2 to 3 days and then you can take it back down. If you don't like the neighbors, one of them has a audible sound that even hurts the owners ears and will cause them to train their own dogs. LOVE EM!! PLUS: This style seems better and more efficient at stopping the heat/cold loss through a window than the heat shrink plastic videos that I have watched. It also seem like it will last a LOT longer than the others. Thanks.

$1000 for two window inserts is insane. Thank you for posting I just saw their product and was wondering about the safety aspect, but it $500 per window it’s probably cheaper to actually remove and replace the window entirely.

Nicely done!

Mike thank you so much!!! Doing this today!

Thank you Mike this was very helpful!!

Thanks for the helpful video. TAP Plastics is great, and yes, that window-insert company is much more expensive. I have a really big front window (94 inches wide) with a lot of traffic and construction noise coming through it all the time. I was planning to build an insert comprised of 3 panels and put them side-by-side inside the window sill. Which would have been challenging to make them all fit together. But after watching your video, I think making them bigger than the window opening, so the Plexiglass overlaps the surrounding wall is a better idea and also more forgiving. That's because no window is perfectly square, as I learned when I cut the Plexiglass for the smaller window and of course one corner was smaller than the others. So you've just made my big-window project much simpler! Thank you for explaining this so well.

Thank you, Mike!

Thank you for the tutorial. 🤙

I contacted Indow... 90 percent of the time very quiet home.... neighbors throw some PARTAYS in the summer... the bass shakes my couch!!.... I might try this... Thank YOU.

This is a fantastic video! Unfortunately my window doesn't have a shelf so I'm trying to figure out a way for this to be adapted.

Very helpful, big difference! I'm working on a good solution for a friend and this just might be perfect. Thanks man!

Dear Helpful Mike: I hope you realize that the way you think is "Pure Genius" !! There are so many of us out here who love the inside of our rentals but hate the street noise and the barking dog noises!! I can hardly wait to get the materials together and get mine up! I have barking dogs on one side AND street traffic noise on the other side!! You're a genius!! Pure Genius !! Is it okay to say "I love you" for this? I had found those insert windows online and I couldn't afford them so I had to give up on what to do, and then here comes "Helpful Mike" !! Thank you!

This is super cool man .... I have been having so much trouble with my noise sensitivity and dog barking that I wasn’t going to rest until I found a solution, but this just may be the best .... thanks for trying this and hey great, great video. You explained and demonstrated everything very well👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👌🏾👌🏾

Thank you! So helpful!

Thank you. My neighbors' grandchildren park in the drive and thump thump thump loud bass music, and I work from home. I will at least do this with windows in my office. The low vibrational bass sets every nerve ending on fire.

Ooh thanks for the good tips!

Definitely made a difference👍🏼👍🏼

That's cool dude. Great job. Thank you for the video.

looks interesting , I might try it... moved to new place and one of windoes goes directly to busy road, windows are double ones and traffic is basically endless hum, but maybe something like this could help... house walls are very thick so its basically only windows leaking outside noise...

Thanks for this video that was very helpful, I am going to try this.

Thanks, this clip method looks easier, and also lets you create more space between the glass and the plexiglass

Great video!

Wow, Thank you!

I'm going to try this on my living room windows. Will let you know how it goes

heck yeah man thank you!

thank you. with your video i've learned that i needed window seal on my window. i live near a high traffic street and during the quarantine i got used to silence. when the lockdowns were lifted the noise came back and it was a nightmare. i didn't even realize until then how loud it was. sealing my window was enough to make a noticeable difference but i'm going to do just like you did and enjoy my piece

That works great!

Wow ... Perfect ...

really helpful. thanks

This definitely works for reducing traffic noise. The key point is to use material that is thick enough. Hardwood Plywood also works.

Thanks so much for this video

Thank you!

Just subscribed to get you one closer to 1000 subs! Thanks so much for the helpful video!

Really useful, thanks Mark

Great plan.. i will try also now

super helpful!

Awesome, thank you. In my case it's noise from 40mph traffic going by...mini-blinds don't do much for it and the Indows kits are way too expensive for me. I'll get some of this extruded acrylic from the store in San Leandro. If I have anything to report I'll add a comment here.

thank you so much

Hey mike great video btw! I want to ask u if is possible to use 2 plexiglass panes where there is a 2-4 inches gap between them and probably some accoustic foam to help with sound absorption?

Thanks for the useful video, how much do each of the acrylic sheets weigh? Thanks

Thank you for this noise reduction fix! Can you give the name of the window seal product and where it can be purchased?

Goingto try this out

I’m really excited to try this. Do you think it will help if I also put acoustic Nop foam on it?

great Idea Thank you maybe you should paten this and have this ready to buy kits

ooh that works well!

Good video, is there any preference on materials?

You don't headphones to tell the difference. Anyways this is great - thank you!

So plexiglass is the material Indow uses? Also, you said at just 1 to 2 inches of space between the window and the plexiglass. So a space is needed to capture the sound? Great video!

This is exactly the same idea I came up with for my apartment! you've confirmed for me that it works. I was trying to figure out what thickness I should get, so it looks like 1/4" is the way to go. :)

thank you for this video. im gonna try this on my sons house they have a 1 yr old and his bedroom window is right where the neighborhood kids play in the streets and it keeps waking him up. hopefully it will work for them. thanks so much.