The intensity of the noise emitted from air conditioning units is measured in decibels (‘dB’). Whilst the efficiency of our air conditioning systems is still a primary concern, the noise level the air conditioner emits is also increasingly important. Please leave feedback in our comments section below and we promise to keep this fully updated!Īs air conditioning units have become more technologically advanced, our demands of our air conditioning have similarly increased.

Those of you who wish for a more academic approach can scroll to the bottom to check out our initial research. Have some fun clicking around on our all-singing-and-dancing infographic below.

Also, based in London, we don’t live close enough to Cape Canaveral to run around waving our own decibel meter…. Further investigation revealed that people forget to mention how far away they were when actually measuring the sounds. Indeed, most of our research showed that an aeroplane taking off is louder than a spaceship launch and surely this cannot be the case. We found so many different accounts of how loud the same sound was. However, we didn’t know where the ‘cut-off’ point should have been and we got somewhat carried away until we found the worlds loudest noise!ĭespite all of our in-depth research, noise levels and decibels are still controversial and subjective. We initially wanted to create an amazingly informative infographic to best explain how loud our air conditioners are.

So we started to delve into the dark world of decibels to make the blinking things easier to understand. Our initial attempt to explain how loud air conditioners are via an internet page was, in our opinion, a minor disaster.Īn indisputable fact is that 99.999% of us haven’t got a clue what a decibel either sounds like or looks like! Let’s be honest, we didn’t even know ourselves precisely what a decibel was!

Decibel unit