Installing Sound Proofing this week..

Grz.26

Hi All,

I am going to be installing some sound proofing to my party wall this coming week, i shall be doing the following.. please advise if this is ok or what you would de differently..

2x1's - to make dry lining, installing accustic quilt (what brand?) in the recess.
green glue applied to studs, and soundbloc plasterboard put up.
- green glue then applied to sheets of plasterboard and placed over this.
- seal all the edges etc..

Does this sound a good plan???

Regards

Ricjhard.

ormus

there is soundblocker quilt. but its 81 quid a roll!

ive alwasy used rockwool.

aliasojo

I use Wickes Heavy Density Slab Insulation. Helps deaden sound no end. In fact just putting some into a partition wall between two bedrooms today. It's only 30mm thick but you can put in double or triple layers.

Used it all over the house and it's made a big difference.

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Heavy-Density-Insulation/invt/161189

Can work out a bit pricey mind.

*j*

It's best if your new wall is floating. ie. not touching the existing wall. Otherwise the sound is just transmitted through to the new plasterboard surface.

Something like 2" by 2" frame, screwed into side walls, floor and ceiling, with some packing like a strip of old carpet or some thick underfelt between the frame and what you are fixing it to.

Frame out the rest, making sure you keep at least half an inch away from the wall, then something like Wickes dense insulation batts (approx one or one and a half inches thick), then one or two layers of heavy plasterboard. Half inch is better than three eighths, and there is some sort of soundblock plasterboard, which is more dense.

But be warned, sound is funny stuff. Even a significant reduction in sound level can still be heard almost as well. A 3 decibel reduction halves the sound level, but it still sounds much the same to our ears.

Not trying to put you off, just don't expect too much. Retrofitting sound insulation is hard to make really successful.

Good luck.

Grz.26

Ive heard that it is very hard to eliminate all sound, but anything has to be better than what is there at the moment. I can hear next doors alarm clock, tv, phone, muffelled talking etc. and ive just bought a amp and some speakers to upset potentially upset my neighbour..

*j*

My sympathies, Grz.

jitters

*j* wrote: »

My sympathies, Grz.

+1 from me. Noisy neighbours are a PITA.

In the past, despite telling about it, they still play their music loud enough for me to 'shazam' it through the wall! Thankfully we are renting and recently they've been quiet...fingers crossed.

The_Pedant

If you do go ahead with this, I would be interested to know how this works out. One of my neighbours is rather deaf & it gets frustrating listening to the news on their TV.

As I've got a whole load of decorating to do, I was contemplating a stud frame, the high density insulation & soundbloc plasterboard as a simple attempt to try & improve things.

Grz.26

I am going to do it with some help from carpenter friend at the end of the month. so will update you later on..

im hoping it will significatly improve sound 1) coming from neighbour, and 2) keep my sound in.

regards

richard.

C_Mababejive

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To soundproof with any kind of effectiveness the soundproofing wall would have to be freefloating. Physical contact just provides a conduit for transmission and bridges your soundproofing. I fear a lot of work will be put in for little return. In addition,after suffering tw$ts next door for years,you find that you become hyper sensitive to it.