Sound dampening party wall? Soundstop Panels

Steerpike88

So we have some pretty loud neighbours. They;re not too bad but they talk pretty loud and they have a boisterous two year old. I have a 4 month old baby that startles awake quite a lot, he seems determined not to get used to the noise, to be fair it's annoying to me too. I want a little soundproofing in the party wall in the bedroom (it's just a single layer of brick), just to make the white noise more effective and muffle the sounds a bit.

I was looking at these soundstop panels? Has anyone used something like this? I can do some basic DIY but we can't afford to lose much space in the bedroom. Would these help to muffle the sound a noticeably?

paddy's_mum

When my family has a similar problem, we installed fitted wardrobes along the party wall.

A bank of clothing makes a good sound insulator, it doesn't 'lose' valuable bedroom space and the money you spend isn't left behind when you move as paying out for fixed panels would be, so is a cost effective option.

[Deleted User]

Noticeable is a subjective word, but Soundstop say their panels give an improvement of about 13-16dB. The chart below might help put that figure into perspective:



You're looking at moving about one step further down the table, so reducing a busy road to the level of a vacuum cleaner, or a vacuum cleaner to the level of normal speech, for example.