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Assessing party wall sound insulation when buying
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Exactly so.davidlizard wrote: »When you look at the house, go round and ask the neighbour about what the sound damping is like, and if he can hear some noise being made next door.
Most reasonable people would have no problem with this request. If he gets all moody about a simple request like this, ask yourself whether this is the sort of person you want to have as a neighbour?Favours are returned ... Trust is earned
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Double-skin brick, but useless. It's strange, because in our previous house the party wall was breeze block, but sound insulation seemed better, even when the fellah there very occasionally lost his rag.We had some soundproofing work done a few years ago. I can offer you some advice, although it's been a few years so take it with a pinch of salt
Check whether the party wall is breezeblock or brick (get into the loft) - the latter is far more resilient to noise carrying.
Tap the party wall - if it sounds 'hollow' you may get issues with noise 'flanking'. The noise will bounce around within this gap and affect other rooms in the house, even if the noise on the neighbours side isn't being made in the opposing room.
From what I was told, the new sound regulations are essentially useless and our house (paper thin walls) would have probably passed anyway.
As always though, it comes down to how nice your potential neighbours areFavours are returned ... Trust is earned
Reality is an illusion ... don't knock it
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tim123456789 wrote: »air gaps doen't stop sound, mass stops sound
In all cases? I can remember being at school with two classroom seperated by a huge double glazing window with a big gap between the panels (possibly a couple of inches not sure) no sound could be heard between the two even with kids screaming on the other side. would the air gap between help in this case?
Although i'm assuming the weight of the glass must of been damn heavy thinking about it..0
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