The Best Way To Sound Proof ?
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Posted on Nov 23, 2004 07:53 am
cocofromscotland
Hello!
Member Since: Jan 12, 2004
Hi Guys
I may be having to sound proof a large room sometime soon in the future.
The room will be 20 ft x 20 ft with a 400 sq ft total area (though the room is not constructed as yet!!).
Anyway, the plan is to construct the room using the traditional highly skilled :-) method of stud partitioning. So, I'll build me a timber frame, nail plaster board to the front side i.e. the inside of the room and on the other side too.
Would it be wise to build another room outside the room using the very same method i.e. build a room within a room with say, a 4-6 space all the way round the room. So, I'd have a 20x20 room inside the stud partioned room with a layer of plasterboard inside, a gap, then the same again with plasterboard facing in and out.
How well sound proofed would this in itself be i.e. building this extra wall and leaving the 4-6 gap to kill the sound?? Or, should I fill this gap with something i.e. more boards/foam or something. I dont want to spend too much cash but the room has to be at least 80-85% sound proofed so the room next door can be used for other purposes.
If anyone has any good tips, ideas or specific suggestions as ever, I;d love yer input. If anybody will know the best, most cost effective method of doing this, Im sure as hell convinced it'll be one of you guys.
Cheers as always
Coco.
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Nov 23, 2004 08:12 am That is the commonly accepted way to sound proof, the room within a room. You don't mention how tall the room is, but it is also advantageous to build a ceiling under a ceiling as well, and the for the floor ist is helpfull to build a floor on a floor, putting some sort of hard rubber spacers between the two floors.
Also, insulate with loosely packed r19 fiberglass insulation.
Oh, hey, and wots up with you scots releasing a video game that re-enacts the JFK assasination with the player being Lee Harvey Oswald? how tasteless is that...
Nov 23, 2004 08:30 am Cheers dB - that is EXACTLY what I needed to here.
As for the game - man, I dunno. Didnt hear of that and avoid video games...canny be doign with such things. Still, if some twat has developed such a game its pretty bad. BEst thing to do is to avoid purchase...There has been soooo much tasteless stuff developed over the last few years I think its bloody awful.
I also include, the trips down to visit the Titanic wreckage as one of em. Who the hell wants to visit a watery graveyard other than ghouls?? Awful man...folk should let the dead rest in peace.
Coco.
P.S. Again, thanks for the sound proof info - much appreciated.
Nov 23, 2004 08:33 am www.techtree.com/techtree...=56307&s=ln is aboot the game.
I dunno, I'd love to dive and see the titanic, but I can see the gore factor. I live within a couple hours of Lake Superior (known by some as "Gitchi Gumi", native american name), one of the "Great Lakes" which has many sunked ships in it, I would dearly love to dive down there and see the Edmund Fitzgerald and other such famous sinkings.
Jason H.Jack of all trades master of ___Member
Since: May 28, 2004
Nov 23, 2004 09:08 am I am about to do the same thing Coco but my room isn't that big...The empty room with wood floors has awful reverb...Its funny...
