Sound proofing a wall.

ChroniC

ChroniC

ChroniC

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Hey

Just moved into a new bachelor pad with a work friend, but when we viewed the flat it had the previous tenants in, and although it's very nice we didn't get to check every tiny detail, so we didn't notice that the bedrooms adjoining wall is basically just a few thin bits of plasterboard.

Not a huge problem, but you can talk through it, so it could become quite awkward or annoying when either we are listening to music, watching a film or getting down and dirty.

Anyone have any bright ideas on how to lessen the sounds, aside for covering a 15foot by 8foot wall with egg cartons :)
Honestly the wall sounds hollow so I'd imagine a filler might do a good job, but it's a rented apartment and it would take a lot of cans of expanding foam to fill the whole wall (i could hide the hole easy)

Would pictures deaden sound or are we just screwed?

Thanks.
 
You are probably talking about a stud partition wall. It will be made of a series of vertical wooden studs braced by horizontal studs. With any luck, there will be insulating material in the resulting gaps. Plasterboard is then attached to these studs, the plasterboard is skimmed and decorated.

It is highly unlikely that you would effectively be able to inject expanding foam and if you did, it would be unlikely to help to deaden sound . . . sorry :(

Thick drapes will sometimes help.
 
Haha, some good answers. I realise a complete sound sealed room is impossible, but I was just thinking more of absorbing a bit of sound. I wondered if large cheap pictures, (ikea style) with maybe a cheap rubber mat on the back might help. Is there an particularly thin cheap material that I could apply to two large frames and hang on the wall?
 
ChroniC said:
Haha, some good answers. I realise a complete sound sealed room is impossible, but I was just thinking more of absorbing a bit of sound. I wondered if large cheap pictures, (ikea style) with maybe a cheap rubber mat on the back might help. Is there an particularly thin cheap material that I could apply to two large frames and hang on the wall?
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is it worth all that hassle though when headphones could suffice?

any bodge job you do will look stupid and be a waste of money.

why cant one of you watch movies in the living room whilst the other is in their bedroom?
 
franco_22 said:
I personally wouldn't care.
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I bet you would if you could hear the person next door choking the chicken @ 4:30am, unless you like that sort of thing?

Flashing tape would be better than ducktape or even better Dynamat.

Pretty expensive stuff and not really ideal though, unless he means ducktape for one nighters!
 
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