Hi All
Background. Mate of mine has recently moved into a Victorian semi. The party/adjoining wall separates the laundry/utility room, kitchen and formal lounge from the neighboring property. My mate wants to investigate soundproofing solutions for the wall in the laundry/utility room and the kitchen. The former isn't very wide so they can't afford to lose much in terms of existing room width. The latter is a larger space that, in theory, could lose some of the existing room width however in an idea world as little as possible.
I've done some Googling on his behalf and understand there are broadly speaking two types of solution, namely:
1. Frame solutions (wooden/metal framing attached to wall, filled with acoustic reducing material, covered with acoustic reducing panels.)
2. Panel solutions (acoustic reducing panels that essentially attach directly to the wall.)
There are dozens of ways to approach either, however broadly speaking if I'm reading websites correctly the frame approach tends to offer greater acoustic reduction results assuming good installation? The downside being greater cost, more work required, loss of room space (albeit not much.) The panel solution is more cost effective, less work involved, less loss of room space, however acoustic reduction results might not be as good.
However, on balance my mate isn't keen on belt & braces, so I wondered if a solution along these lines would suffice, anyone any experience of installing this or similar directly to brick walls and if yes how effective was it?
https://www.noisestopsystems.co.uk/shop/walls/noisestop2-plus-panel/
I should point out my mate isn't expecting noise from the neighbor, it's more to do with enabling his family to live that bit more freely without fear of disturbing the neighbors (noise from appliances in laundry/utility room, kids playing etc.) The kitchen has bare floorboards that are being retained so there's the potential for things to echo that bit more. So all they're looking to do is implement something that will assist deaden sound to a reasonable degree, they don't need the uber gold standard of solutions or results.
I'm also wondering if this sort of solution (board directly on existing walls) would help reduce noise between the kids bedrooms? It's a stud partition. Again just to help reduce general noise that kids make (older teen one side, preteens the other!)
Any advice would be appreciated
Background. Mate of mine has recently moved into a Victorian semi. The party/adjoining wall separates the laundry/utility room, kitchen and formal lounge from the neighboring property. My mate wants to investigate soundproofing solutions for the wall in the laundry/utility room and the kitchen. The former isn't very wide so they can't afford to lose much in terms of existing room width. The latter is a larger space that, in theory, could lose some of the existing room width however in an idea world as little as possible.
I've done some Googling on his behalf and understand there are broadly speaking two types of solution, namely:
1. Frame solutions (wooden/metal framing attached to wall, filled with acoustic reducing material, covered with acoustic reducing panels.)
2. Panel solutions (acoustic reducing panels that essentially attach directly to the wall.)
There are dozens of ways to approach either, however broadly speaking if I'm reading websites correctly the frame approach tends to offer greater acoustic reduction results assuming good installation? The downside being greater cost, more work required, loss of room space (albeit not much.) The panel solution is more cost effective, less work involved, less loss of room space, however acoustic reduction results might not be as good.
However, on balance my mate isn't keen on belt & braces, so I wondered if a solution along these lines would suffice, anyone any experience of installing this or similar directly to brick walls and if yes how effective was it?
https://www.noisestopsystems.co.uk/shop/walls/noisestop2-plus-panel/
I should point out my mate isn't expecting noise from the neighbor, it's more to do with enabling his family to live that bit more freely without fear of disturbing the neighbors (noise from appliances in laundry/utility room, kids playing etc.) The kitchen has bare floorboards that are being retained so there's the potential for things to echo that bit more. So all they're looking to do is implement something that will assist deaden sound to a reasonable degree, they don't need the uber gold standard of solutions or results.
I'm also wondering if this sort of solution (board directly on existing walls) would help reduce noise between the kids bedrooms? It's a stud partition. Again just to help reduce general noise that kids make (older teen one side, preteens the other!)
Any advice would be appreciated
