[Miss Behave]

"The problem with generators is they make noise and need gas. Pretty hard to lie low when you have a noisy, smelly motor running."

Whenever I'm at my parents' and I'm in a room near the Generac and it fires up, I jump sky-high...and my dad laughs. :-)

I take note and "get him back" when he least suspects....

[TaxRelief]

hahaha...how do you get him back? Is he afraid of his own generator?

[B4Ranch]

You can build a “tunnel network” for the exhaust to run through before it hits the free air. Place a large cardboard box (big enough to put a washing machine in) in front of the exhaust outlet. Cut a large enough hole in it so that the cardboard doesn't get warm. Then take another box and cut a 8X8 hole in it. Line it up with the first one, cut a matching hole in the first one. Just keep adding boxes with matching 8X8 holes until the reverberations have quieted sufficiently to meet your needs. You can cover the boxes with padded moving blankets and/or Styrofoam blocks to further quiet the noise.

If you put a divider inside each of the boxes that diverts the exhaust 3/4 of the way up, then down, then out into the next box you won't require as many boxes.

With six boxes I can use my generator anytime of the day or night and my neighbors don't know it is running unless they are standing at their fenceline.