annoying vibrations felt through your feet

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It's summer here, and my fans are on full blast because I can't afford to run my AC most of the time. They're floor fans, and (to me) they make the whole room vibrate. I can feel it through my feet and it's driving me crazy. Summer is sooooo loooong...

At the start of summer, only the noise of the fans got to me, and I started wearing earplugs almost constantly to block it out. That helped a lot for a few weeks, but turning down the volume on life with earplugs started making my other senses stronger and the vibrations started really bugging me. Now, even without earplugs in, I can feel my fans vibrating constantly and it's driving me crazy.

This same thing happened last summer and even though shorter days depress me, the coming of fall weather was such a relief. I can't wait for this constant buzzing in my feet and ears to end.

Yah - the annoying ventilation fan sound noise in summer at my place of work seems to really set off my tinnitus. It just drives me bananas.

I get this! But, it is because of the sub-bass music that a neighbor (TWO or THREE houses away) plays for an hour at about 9:00 p.m. before going to sleep. The noise level is legally mild, but the vibration is annoying.

I can feel my blood pulsing through my veins when I'm trying to get to sleep at night. Sometimes it feels like the bed is shaking. Other vibrations are anywhere from mildly annoying to downright creepy (like sometimes on elevators).

Oh, man... don't get me started about bass lol I can't stand bass.

At the place where I used to work, there was a vent near my cubicle with a piece of plastic (or something) that flapped around in it the whole time the AC was on. Summer is hard for me, sometimes...

At that same place, there was a door behind my cubicle that was always closed but that would vibrate in tune with the AC, and with the fridge and vending machine in the break room on the other side of the wall. A few times every hour on hot days when the AC was running, the door would vibrate loose from the doorframe, and when that happened, the vibrations had enough force to make the door go click click click against the frame. As soon as I heard it start, I would get up and pull the door tight up against the frame again to stop the noise just so I could get anything done.

And then there were the cargo trains that sometimes parked a stone's throw from the building where I worked, at the medical supply factory next door, and then there's the noise that THAT building made...

Can you get some thick pieces of thick foam or some pillows (anything that is as soft and squishy as possible without being so soft and squishy that the fans fall over or simply compress them so thin that they are useless) to put between the fans and the floor to absorb some of the vibration?

I hadn't thought of that. That might help.

I HAVE noticed that keeping them on carpet helps some, so your idea makes sense.

It's like sound-proofing -- except instead of getting in the way of vibrations that are travelling through the air to your ears (ear plugs), foam or pillows or carpet would be getting in the way of vibrations travelling through the fan's casing/base to the floor..... floor plugs

Thanks

The vibrating fan noise has never really been a nuisance to me, but a quiet room with a ticking clock can make me go crazy, like small hammers banging on my head in a rhythm manner, and I want to tear it of the wall and put a bullet through it!! Dripping water from a faucet can also sound like a shot from a cannon(kinda) sometimes when its silent.

in recent years there has been some innovation in the aircraft industry, based on studying owl feathers (owls fly completely silently). if you look at the engines on new airliners, the rear of the cowlings are scalloped to reduce the wind noise. if you look up pics of airliners, you will see the scallops i mean.

last year i used a dremel tool to cut similar scallops (about 3/8 inch {1 cm} deep) into the blade trailing edges of one of our fans (plastic blades). it is noticeably quieter now. it was quick and easy, and doesn't need to be exact - close enough works just fine for this.

Genius!

you only say that because i did not mention that on the first try i put them on the leading edges

Did that make it extra loud?