Afternoon all,
I was wondering if anyone has carried out a job or had their own walls treated to improve the sound insulation performance?
Long story short, we hear absolutely everything from our neighbours, whether its a slightly louder conversation or music, we hear it all. We were going to move but uncertainty around Covid has changed that.
We've been presented a couple of options by a local tradesman for our semi detached property.
1. Install two layers of 12.5mm British Gypsum soundbloc plaster board directly onto the party wall in question, over the top of existing plaster. Sandwiched between the new boards will be some high density accoustic membrane. This will add mass to the wall and hopefully greatly reduce airborne noise (conversation, music, TV etc)
2. Build a 100mm metal floating studwall, packed with sound insulating rockwool and two layers of soundbloc
Option 2 will be a little more expensive and probably achieve better results, but take up more room.
Anyone gone down the route of option 1 before and achieve good results? Option 1 would definitely be our preference but would like to hear if it's going to achieve a result. We're not after dead silence, we're realistic with our expectations. But we would like to dampen a large proportion of the noise we currently suffer from. We're likely to try insulating our living room wall before moving onto other rooms in the house which share the party wall.
Any advice gratefully received!
John
I was wondering if anyone has carried out a job or had their own walls treated to improve the sound insulation performance?
Long story short, we hear absolutely everything from our neighbours, whether its a slightly louder conversation or music, we hear it all. We were going to move but uncertainty around Covid has changed that.
We've been presented a couple of options by a local tradesman for our semi detached property.
1. Install two layers of 12.5mm British Gypsum soundbloc plaster board directly onto the party wall in question, over the top of existing plaster. Sandwiched between the new boards will be some high density accoustic membrane. This will add mass to the wall and hopefully greatly reduce airborne noise (conversation, music, TV etc)
2. Build a 100mm metal floating studwall, packed with sound insulating rockwool and two layers of soundbloc
Option 2 will be a little more expensive and probably achieve better results, but take up more room.
Anyone gone down the route of option 1 before and achieve good results? Option 1 would definitely be our preference but would like to hear if it's going to achieve a result. We're not after dead silence, we're realistic with our expectations. But we would like to dampen a large proportion of the noise we currently suffer from. We're likely to try insulating our living room wall before moving onto other rooms in the house which share the party wall.
Any advice gratefully received!
John
