Hello everyone,
Sorry, it's a bit of a long one. I live in a mid-terraced, 1970's built ex-council house with timber framework construction. The ground floor of the house has bricks outside with plasterboard on the inside, while the first floor has some weird plastic cladding on the outside with plasterboard on the inside. Separation between neighbours, I believe, is just a stud wall.
I would like to eliminate the following noise:
1) Neighbours' kid playing with a tennis ball, bouncing on their laminate flooring and against the wall, with me on the other side of it (impact noise? - I don't really hear people talking/music unless it's very loud).
2) Outside noise, such as football kicking.
My first goal is to sound proof the party wall. Since I have laminate flooring in the living room, I guess I would need to lift some panels before doing anything. I've been looking on various sites and it seems that I would need to:
a) Build a stud wall frame using some 2x4s attaching to the floor boards under the laminate, side walls and ceiling, leaving a 1 inch gap from the existing wall.
b) Put some sound deadening/absorbing material between joists - which? There seems to be so many? Will acoustic wool be OK? It's reasonably priced.. or would I be better off with some proper acoustic quilt type thing? These are expensive though...
c) Get some resilient bars and attach the plasterboard onto this.
d?) If I was to attach another plasterboard, what kind of membrane can I put in between? Not too sure about this...
e) Need to move the radiator that's on this wall, but I'll worry about that later...
Would this work OK?
Also, it might be wise to sound proof the floor but I am not sure how, since it's mainly impact/resonant noise. I don't think there's any layer between the floorboards and the laminate at the moment, so I was thinking of ripping the laminate out and putting a carpet on top of some sound proof underlay. Will this stop this kind of noise? Or would a new wall, as above, be sufficient?
I am not quite sure how to sound proof the outside noise, due to the fact that I have a very large sliding glass door leading onto the patio, which is probably the main source of noise seepage. Is there an "acoustic glass" I can replace the existing double glazing with? Probably the best bet would be to put another sliding door inside (there's space for this) but I guess this not very cost effective. Any ideas on this?
Thanks
Alex
Sorry, it's a bit of a long one. I live in a mid-terraced, 1970's built ex-council house with timber framework construction. The ground floor of the house has bricks outside with plasterboard on the inside, while the first floor has some weird plastic cladding on the outside with plasterboard on the inside. Separation between neighbours, I believe, is just a stud wall.
I would like to eliminate the following noise:
1) Neighbours' kid playing with a tennis ball, bouncing on their laminate flooring and against the wall, with me on the other side of it (impact noise? - I don't really hear people talking/music unless it's very loud).
2) Outside noise, such as football kicking.
My first goal is to sound proof the party wall. Since I have laminate flooring in the living room, I guess I would need to lift some panels before doing anything. I've been looking on various sites and it seems that I would need to:
a) Build a stud wall frame using some 2x4s attaching to the floor boards under the laminate, side walls and ceiling, leaving a 1 inch gap from the existing wall.
b) Put some sound deadening/absorbing material between joists - which? There seems to be so many? Will acoustic wool be OK? It's reasonably priced.. or would I be better off with some proper acoustic quilt type thing? These are expensive though...
c) Get some resilient bars and attach the plasterboard onto this.
d?) If I was to attach another plasterboard, what kind of membrane can I put in between? Not too sure about this...
e) Need to move the radiator that's on this wall, but I'll worry about that later...
Would this work OK?
Also, it might be wise to sound proof the floor but I am not sure how, since it's mainly impact/resonant noise. I don't think there's any layer between the floorboards and the laminate at the moment, so I was thinking of ripping the laminate out and putting a carpet on top of some sound proof underlay. Will this stop this kind of noise? Or would a new wall, as above, be sufficient?
I am not quite sure how to sound proof the outside noise, due to the fact that I have a very large sliding glass door leading onto the patio, which is probably the main source of noise seepage. Is there an "acoustic glass" I can replace the existing double glazing with? Probably the best bet would be to put another sliding door inside (there's space for this) but I guess this not very cost effective. Any ideas on this?
Thanks
Alex