[Fionnbharr (finn:-)]

My wife and I are looking for ways to get me into a larger shop, and she hit upon the idea of moving the animals out of our heavy corrugated galvinized pole barn, I am concerned about noise? It is a good sized barn ~30 x ~60and the roof is pretty high. The lowest point is probably ~15' with the peak about ~24'

My question is... I am not particularly worried about the noise level for me, though that is a bother and if I want to teach out of my shop I will have to do something..., but I wear hearing protection in the shop all the time just as a mater of course. BUT my immediate concern is about running the power hammer and the compressor, with bare metal walls, especially in the summer time. I am on the edge of a small creek valley and most of my neighbors are a 1/2mile away or better. But I don't want to have to insulate and seal the shop up so I can work late into the night as I am wont to do:-)

THose of you with power hammers and metal pole barns... How far? and how badly does the sound carry. Does your wife wander out in the middle of the night and tell you to stop so she can sleep, or that the neighbors have called...

ANd for those of you who have insulated thier barns?
What did you use?
How expensive was it?
And how well did it work, to prevent the barn from acting like a giant sounding board?