Questions tagged [sound-proofing]
For questions generally relating to the prevention of transmission of sound from one enclosed area into another or between interior and exterior spaces.
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What's the shear strength of a 5.0 x 50mm wood screw?
I'm going to be installing a decoupled ceiling into wood joists. The system comprises of clips that each take 4 screws. Each 1.2m x 1.2m 36kg plasterboard will be attached to 12 of these clips total.
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Would adding sound-dampening insulation to part of a wall help?
We have a square-shaped, corner room that we use as a piano room. The room has doorways into both adjacent interior spaces. One doorway has large French doors with a transom. The other is just open - ...
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Opposing needs: soundproofing a door, constructing a cat door - can both be met?
There is a door we would like to soundproof, or at least insulate phonically to the extent possible: it leads to a narrow open staircase leading to the attic, which is currently a somewhat creaky ...
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Should I block a hole in my door to prevent noise/heat/cold issues? [closed]
I have 3 doors in my house that were modified for our cat to be able to move inside the house when the doors are closed, so we wont have to get up and open them for him all the time (all the doors are ...
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Can Rockwool Insulation be compressed or squished to fit through a 4'' hole and then rexpanded?
I just put in recessed lighting and lost a lot of soundproofing in the room. There is some insulation in the ceiling, but since cutting the holes in the drywall, sound is leaking out like crazy (...
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How do I reduce extreme wind noise in a standing seam roof?
I've noted lots of wind noise from our standing seam panels, a roaring in the metal 'pans' forming the long panels that is, at times, deafening. My question: is there a reasonably effective solution?
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Reduce low-frequency noise from nearby rail yard during home renovation and wall (re)construction
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I live about 350 m from a rail yard. The idling engine are rather noisy. Within my house, only the very low frequencies usually make it through the walls to the living space. I haven't ...
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GE dishwasher sound proofing material
Got a brand new GE dishwasher and its soundproofing wrap is quite thin, you can literally .. see through it (the photo doesn’t capture that) . The material measures around 1-2mm thick. Is this some ...
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Ideas or options for a door in an open stairway [closed]
I found a semi-related post about this, but it doesn't really answer my question. It basically claims a horizontal, wall-mounted barn door could work in a space like below (see images). However, all ...
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Where can I buy 3/4" fine thread drywall screws in Canada? [closed]
I live in Canada, and it's hard to buy stuff here :)
Describing my use case a bit here, for my soundproofing in the basement ceiling I'm constructing rockwool + sonopan + resilient channel + 5/8" ...
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Would a box lined with rock wool help to soundproof noisy plumbing? [duplicate]
Context: Old rowhouse with joists running across the structure. Bathroom is on 2nd floor over the kitchen/dining room. Bathroom floor is 4" of concrete + tile.
Over the summer, we discovered a ...
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Reducing sound through a vent
There is a vent above our shower that we keep closed all the time. Despite being closed, we can hear everything in a neighbor's kitchen, and they can hear everything in our bathroom.
I'd like to ...
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What to use to soundproof the ceiling from footsteps and falling objects?
I would like to soundproof my 60 foot living room from the noises of the upper floor, in particular the noises of footsteps (there is a 5-year-old girl running much time of the day) and falling ...
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Two 5/8 drywall panel on resilient channel RC-1 on ceiling
Can you mount two layers of 5/8 drywall on RC-1 from the ceiling?
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How to mount an attic gable fan to reduce vibration in the rest of the house?
How can I reduce noise and vibration that's transmitted from an an attic gable fan to the rest of the house? Currently, the fan is mounted via screws to studs on the gable. Even when the fan is ...
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Using narrow (25mm-27mm) steel studs for walls
I did some research, watched some videos. All of those shows how to install standard steel studs for walls (50mm-100mm x 50 mm). For ceiling there are more narrow studs, like 60mm x 27mm or 60mm x ...
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How to muffle rain hitting overhanging steel eave?
In order to stop rain soaking in through the walls a narrow 15cm steel eave was added above a couple of windows at my place. It does the job, we no longer get any water entering the building. But, it ...
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Soundproofing wooden server cabinet
I have build a wooden (well, 22mm mdf) cabinet to hold my server, switch etcetera. I wish to soundproof the cabinet as well as possible. Obviously complete proofing is not possible, because it needs ...
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Creating DIY rockwool panels and hanging on wall to block sound thru walls
I rent, and looking to bump up the STC of my living room and bedroom walls a little bit with some nice looking panels stuffed with Rockwool. I figure that these would add a little bit soundproofing ...
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Does combining a hybrid vinyl plank with attached underlay and external underlay help to achieve even greater soundproofing?
Hybrid vinyl planks come with acoustic underlay attached to them. For example the one that I am after has LnTw of 40 db.
The question is if I install that on top of an extra 2mm acoustic underlay, say,...
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How to create a permeable sound barrier? [closed]
I want to create a permeable (allowing things to pass through) sound barrier (noise barrier, soundwall, noise wall) for soundproofing purposes. It is for a room and specifically for the doorway/...
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Possible to "soundproof"/reduce noise from First Floor Furnace/AC?
We have a 1080 sq. ft., 1-floor (no basement) house. Our furnace and cold air/AC returns/registers are literally almost in the living room/main sitting area and it's very loud year round, making for a ...
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How can I dampen a tankless water heater’s humming sound?
I just moved into our new home. First time with a tankless heater. I notice that whenever we turn on hot water after turning it off the tankless heater makes a humming sound. It seems like this is ...
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Soundproofing a wooden door with a mirror
To what extent is it viable to glue a large mirror on a solid wood door for sound insulation?
From my point of view, if I will glue a mirror covering most of the door area on a double-sided thick self-...
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Soundproofing an outdoor double pane glass door with aluminum frame
I live in apartment were across the street is an industrial air conditioner that runs 24/7 and makes a semi high pitched noise. The windows and sliding glass door in my living room effectively block ...
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How to stop dripping noise from A/C into drain?
My air conditioner is in a crawl space in the 2nd floor. The condenser tray has a PVC drip line that comes down through the wall and meets up with a bathroom sink's drain immediately below the crawl ...
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Could hedges help in reducing noise?
We live on a busy street with sound of tires and revving engines. We were wondering if hedges could help reduce the sound that comes into the house? if not, what other alternatives can we try? We ...
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Practical ways to reduce rattling noise in furnace?
Our bedroom is right above where the furnace is in our rented apartment. The furnace below makes a lot of noise, especially a rattling noise. Landlord is refusing to take any actions on it saying it ...
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Sound of toilet water flushed from high floors
I live in an apartment building. Time to time, sound like flushed water going down in pipes come from our bathroom, likely when higher floor neighbors just finished using their toilet.
Is there a way ...
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Soundproofing tape outdoor
I'm thinking about using soundproofing resilient tape on my balcony, mostly because rain sometime hits the metal railing and the noise bothers me.
I was wondering if such material is flame resistant, ...
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Soundproofing external HVAC
I am looking to build a fence around my outside air conditioning unit to reduce the decibels for the neighbors. Is there any tips on how to construct such unit? Are there any ready to use commercial ...
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How do I level a hardwood floor with minimal damage?
I'd like to soundproof my living room floor in order to minimize impact from footfall and airborne sound transmission from a piano. My general plan is to install soundproofing mats on top of the ...
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Is it better to have acrylic window inserts than storm windows for soundproofing? [closed]
We live on a busy street and would like to soundproof the windows facing the street. After some research, we've boiled down to either storm windows or acrylic glass. The latter is more expensive, but ...
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What's the best soundproofing solution to rubber coming off of double-paned transom windows?
Rubber between the two window panes are coming off of our double paned transom windows. Does the rubber have soundproofing capabilities? We live on a very busy street and are also looking for ways to ...
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Soundproofing casement windows
I have three casement windows facing a busy street in an urban area and noise does get into the room. I noticed that the window panels (moving parts) meet the frame directly, meaning there is no ...
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How to soundproof sliding door/wall?
I am currently renting a room, that was a living room once, and one side of of walls are just pieces of wood that you can slide on a track. I use the middle one as my "door". But there is a ...
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Loud brass valve - how to make it quieter?
I have a 0.5hp pond pump, powering my backyard water features.
My pump is actually very quiet - quieter than the natural sound of the running water, so you don't notice it.
The pump circulates 960 ...
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Is it beneficial to use Quietrock drywall in addition to Rockwool Sound Insulation?
How much additional noise reduction can I get by combining Rockwool sound insulation with QuietRock drywall? Or does one render the other moot?
I'm looking to add some noise reduction to an unfinished ...
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How to soundproof a window trickle vent?
Is it possible to soundproof this window by sealing this ventilation hole in way that is reversible without damage (it's a rented property).
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Keeping out street noise
While I live on the 7th floor, the noise coming from street level is significant. Small motorcycles with their mufflers taken off race by all day long, constantly, and even at this level they can be ...
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Sound proof my guest unit carved out of main house
It seems that when they carved out this guest unit they failed to insulate the walls. I've read up on spray foam insulation, adding drywall over existing drywall with green glue in between.
Both sound ...
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What is the most cost-effective way to reduce sound coming up my staircase?
We bought a two-story house with a fairly open-plan staircase. See below:
My desk sits right by the top of the stairs, and a lot of sounds echo up the stairs from the kitchen. Since we are work-from-...
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Renovation Planning [closed]
We would like to do the following in our two-family house, ordered by priority
Sound-proofing bedrooms, potentially other living spaces (we are getting woken up at 4-5am from tenants on the second ...
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How to soundproof floor from neighbors below?
We live in an old building in an apartment owned by our family so we can renovate. We go to sleep early so while our house is quiet we can hear our neighbors walking, dragging furniture etc.
I know ...
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How to insulate from the noise generated by rain falling on a roof window?
My sleeping room is just below the roof, and has two roof windows. When it rains during the night (rather common experience during winter in central Italy, where I am located), the rain falling on the ...
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Can we seal the bedroom door gap, or will it affect the central air conditioning airflow?
I am trying to add some sound proofing to my baby's room. In Canada, almost all interior doors have a gap at the bottom. I believe this is for the airflow of the central furnace/air conditioner. Since ...
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Sound proofing a panned floor joist return run (basement apartment)
I'm building a basement rental unit in our home. We'll be living upstairs so I'm doing my best to sound separate the upper and lower units. I'm using a seperate hvac system for the basement (baseboard ...
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mice and sound traveling through brick party wall joist pockets
We live in a 1912 row house that I believe has joist pockets that allow sound and mice to travel freely between me and my neighbors' houses. For instance, my neighbor hired pest control to deal with ...
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Soundproofing around water softener
I'm trying to come up with options for soundproofing around our water softener (and the mechanicals that go alongside it - not including water heater). Currently when it goes through it's regen cycle, ...
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Can I use a wood top plate on top of a steel track to build a roof-bearing steel frame?
I am building a room within my garage using double studs, double track, steel framing. The outer dimensions for this room are 23' l x 16' 6" w x 10' h, and will share no common walls or ceiling ...
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