Fixing neighbour noise in our bedroom.

mart.vader

Sorry to hear that, mate. I was hoping you would report your problems are mostly solved.

Did you say that you had filled all of the gaps round your windows ?

Has there been no sign of noise compromise from your teenage neighbour ? Time to involve the council "noise abatement officer" or whatever yours are called


edit: Acoustic or amplified electric guitar ?
Double or single glazed windows?

lostinrates

This is very bad news.


Just this week we had a door way and partial wall replaces will acoustic plaster board and some insulation and the difference from this partial effort in an interior wall is staggering. I was hopeful for you.

esmerelda98

IanRi wrote: »

It's all up, surface just needs finishing and painting

But...

Still noisy. Noise is bypassing the wall and coming through the exterior windowed wall.

Very depressing after putting so much money and effort into it.

If you think the noise is coming in through the window, secondary glazing with a different thickness of glass to what you already have is quite effective and I assume you already have well-fitting interlined (with heavy bump) curtains? There are cheaper and temporary secondary glazing options, don't be put off at the price of some of them. Magneglaze comes to mind, I remember they were cheaper than other companies I was considering, but I'm not recommending them because I don't know how well their products work.

If the noise is coming through the actual wall, I guess you'd have to repeat the stud wall idea.

cyclonebri1

It's a sad scenario but you did suggest it earlier.


MOVE

FreddieFrugal

Have drilled some holes into plasterboard on the noise wall and out expanding foam in. It wasn't being supported enough, just like the party wall hasn't been, really resonated when you tapped on wall. That's reduced the resonance a lot.

We're going to hope that the sound isn't managing to run too far along the wall, will use the left over cuts of plasterboard and remaining accoustic insulation to make a sound panel to attach to the wall using spare resilient bar. Will fit in between the stud wall we built and the window opening. Not a huge area of wall to cover but it's in the right place to have some effect.

Then floor to ceiling double wardrobe will be put in that same corner. Some new thicker curtains. Once carpet is back down and everything else back in there hopefully will have improved.

If not I'll have to go and make them aware of the problem and hope they're reasonable. Or just get some ear plugs and try and cope until they leave which hopefully won't be too long away.

Not going down official complaint route, slunds like more trouble than it's worth.

going_nowhere_fast

Did you manage to sort the noise problem?

FreddieFrugal

going_nowhere_fast wrote: »

Did you manage to sort the noise problem?

Hello, as an update to my old thread. We have massively improved the noise situation, at least in the bedroom.

Along with the stud wall etc. When we could still hear noise coming through, we added a panel floor to ceiling on the adjoining window wall that covered the wall space between our stud wall and the window. Used the left over bits from the main work, cut an offcut of the plasterboard to size, attached it to resilient bars and had left over acoustic mineral roll inside.

We then checked all the seals on the window itself and replaced some of them.

The combination of sorting the window seal, filling the trickle vents and sorting the wall now means that the bedroom is as noise proof as possible, without putting secondary glazing in.
We also replaced our old wardrobes and put in two full size Pax wardrobes in each corner along the wall and an overhead unit, all packed with clothes and blankets which will have helped too. Repainted the room.

We only lost 9cm on the room, which isn't very noticeable still feel like we have enough space.

The improvement is huge, we haven't had a single sleepless night due to noise since. You can still hear the !!!!!!s when they're out in the garden but it's much better than it was. And there's no noise at all through the wall.

Shame we can't afford to do it to the whole house!