Quiet Times

Love Your Neighbours

with Low Noise Garden Tools

As seen on Quiet Mark's TV ads this summer, Mark, Glenapp Castle's woodsman, is in the zone with STIHL Quiet Mark Certfied hedge cutter, still able to hear nature's sounds over the quiet tool operation adding to comfort of use on the job, their very own "Quiet Mark" no less !

Watch more from the gardening team at Glenapp Castle in Scotland, the featured hotel from BBC TWO's Amazing Hotels, share about their projects with the tools they choose to use, making sure they do not disturb the wonderful peace and quiet for guests and surrounding nature.

Watch Glenapp's Gardeners

Five Ways to Find Your Quiet this Summer

Ring fence some daily Quiet time like life depends on it - even 10 minutes in the morning connects to wisdom and gives back inner peace.

Sound check your home - make a hit list of all things noisy to remove in time - soundscape your own Quiet place to work and recharge.

Hatch a new quiet project this summer, write that book or poem, practice your musical instrument loads, have a daily stroll o’clock, make reading time before bed, whatever quiet is for you.

When replacing appliances or home tech check it’s Quiet before you buy it with Quiet Mark hubs at Currys, John Lewis or Argos Sainsburys.

Escape to the cinema to see
A Quiet Place: Day One movie.

Win LG Electronics Quiet Mark Certified home appliances worth over £4,000 featured
on the National Geographic Find Your TV ads to make your own place Quiet:

Enter Prize Draw

How Sound Impacts Your Body

A siren shrills. A dog barks. A chain saw whines. Road drills pound. Unpleasant noise enters your body through your ears, but it is relayed to the stress detection centre in your brain. This area, called the amygdala triggers a cascade of reactions in your body. If the amygdala is chronically overactivated by noise, the reactions begin to produce harmful effects. The endocrine system can overreact, causing too much cortisol, adrenaline and other chemicals to course through the body.

The sympathetic nervous system can also become hyperactivated, quickening the heart rate, raising blood pressure, and triggering the production of inflammatory cells. Over time, these changes can lead to inflammation, hypertension and plaque buildup in arteries, increasing the risk of heart disease, heart attacks and stroke.

New York Times on Noise Health

Best Quiet Extractor Fans Summer 2024

Steam extractors are barely seen, however can annihilate the relaxing moment you crave in the bathroom if noise levels are unbearable. Once installed it's a long-term relationship with that droning din everyday morning and night. A simple life changer can be a revamp to a silent model which wonderfully does the job without letting you know about it. Quiet Mark has assessed noise levels and performance of market wide models like for like with a shortcut to the quietest ones on the market.

Top Quiet Extractor Fans 2024

Find Your Quiet as You Shop

Look for the Quiet Mark Certification on products online and instore to check if it's quiet before you buy it. Hundreds of lowest noise products now carry the Quiet Mark logo to make sure you dodge buying any grizzly juicers, droning extractor fans, ear splitting blenders, video-call-annoying loud spin cycle washing machines, or other noise nightmare products. It's often difficult and so time consuming to return once installed into your home.

Quiet Mark is the independent global certification programme associated with the UK Noise Abatement Society charitable foundation (est. 1959). Through scientific testing and assessment Quiet Mark identifies the quiestest products in multiple categories spanning many sectors, including: home appliances and technology, building sector materials and commercial sector products. Discover more at quietmark.com