Son's noisy bedroom

fletch3163

:DNow, THAT'S the type of advice I was expecting:T

Thanks Gibson 123, tamerton, Shellsuit and alexmac, I appreciate it. I was scared it was turning into a me - rubbish mum or jack - disgraceful, ungrateful teen.

I don't have huge expectations of actually sound proofing but did think I could muffle hime a wee bit ( but without the duct tape to his actual mouth:D). What about rubber matting on the floor and maybe laying laminate afterwards? He has a carpet currently, albeit not a very thick one.

Someone suggested I hang a thick curtain on our shared bit of giprock but am a bit scared I'll turn the place into a squat .

DevCoder

Had an interesting chat about this last week with some people installing sound proofing at work

I think the basics were that sound proofing works by having different densities for each layer which is why double glazing has different thickness glass in the two layers.

So its pointless having a dense plasterboard and then expecting that adding more dense plasterboard will help.

This is why Kingspan for example (which could be used) is a fibrous material used between layers of plasterboard is good at reducing noise.

So look at different composites, not all hard or soft.

You could also look at resonating a reverse frequency which would null the noise but this may take some expense to null a teenager!

The other way is to make the sound resonate back into the room it comes from via uneven surfaces but this might cost some.

A cheaper solution is to raise any little valid point at which time the teenager will state that you are "so unfair" and then go into a morose state for the next 6 months

drummer_666

wait til he gets a few yrs older and starts bringing girlfriends home

beedeedee

Way back when in the sixties - when the world and his wife wanted to start a group..........egg box trays were all the rage to stick on the walls for soundproofing. No idea if it works, but so many people did it, that it might be worth a try? Perhaps stick on with bluetack at first?

missprice

egg boxes do in fact work but pretty unsightly for a bedroom.
I second the pull the teen for the slightest thing, make him say 'its so unfair' and have peace for 6 months or more:)

meantime do you have underlay for the carpeted bits and laminate bits (if any)
a thick velvet curtain (maybe a find in a charity shop) would help especially to cover the egg boxes:)

It can do you till you get a more permanent solution which would be to fill any cavities in the wall and in the floor as sound bounces.

Just had a new stair carpet fitted with underlay this time and the sound is just so much less than the previous thin carpet no underlay (was cheaper back then)

fletch3163

drummer_666 wrote: »

wait til he gets a few yrs older and starts bringing girlfriends home

Yikes , I haven't even got that far :eek:

Thanks for your suggestions.

I shall try cork or rubber on the floor with maybe underlay then laminate. Then I shall try cork stuck to that joining wall and maybe a big thick curtain. It's worth a shot eh. Failing that we'll do it properly but I hate the Idea of paying to fail. I might just go with the first posters and ask the noisy blighter to leave:A

zomble

Book case/shelves filled with books against the wall will lessen the noise. Or if you can afford to loose a little space you could make a stud wall and fill with sound proofing insulation - fairly cheap to buy.

Yorkie1

Make sure you can still open doors if you pad out the lining in the floor ...

fletch3163

Could afford to lose the space (so long as it's not feet). If I definitely KNEW it would work I'd pay for it. I was more thinking doing it cheaper if I was merely going to deaden the noise only a bit.

Thanks for the heads up on the door shutting too. I am trying so that it doesn't end up like the walls, ceiling, floor are all coming in to meet you.

pimento

In three or four years he'll go to university. It's wonderful.