Fitting a fireplace into the open cavity - questions

[749s]

Apologies if this is in teh wrong section.

I'm in an end terrace and a fair amount of noise comes through my fireplace from next door. The walls seem fine but you can hear every word spoken if you put your head close to the fireplace and it's beginiing to annoy me.

I'm not sure on the correct term for the fireplace as it currently is - it's basically just an open brick cavity in which I've got a basket. It's used often in the winter.

I'd like to install/have installed something like this

my question is as follows:

If this is correctly installed with the excess gap behind filled with fire bricks and then vermullicite (sp) - in people's experience will this create a decent block to the sounds coming through?

Also - I'd be interested in hearing any other thoughts on the sound travel.

Many thanks.

 

[gday2uk]

I wouldn't have though so as it's only the bottom half or so which is back filled and there is a big hole (for the smoke to go up) which will let any sound through. Filling the chimney with insulation and boarding up the opening may help (not the ventilation though).
Put your stereo speakers in the opening facing towards next door for a few weeks until they get annoyed and do something about it on their side

 

[foxhole]

The properties probably share a chimney so noise may be getting across there so fireplace may have no effect, unless you get a big log crackling away on it.