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My experience is that you'll be able to reduce airborne noise to a noticeable extent, so talking / shouting / tv etc. - by how much will very much depend on the solution, the materials used and most importantly, the workmanship. Think of the noise as water, if there's a hole, it's going to find it. It's highly unlikely you'll be able to reduce it on all frequencies though. For structural noise i.e. footsteps / slamming doors etc. you're unlikely to get much reduction. Once the vibrations are in the fabric of the building it's almost impossible to stop them without some major decoupling of the fabric of the building, which is both difficult and very expensive. As others have said, you'd be better off moving, but noise canceling headphones will remove the worst of it while you're still there. If you need more, in ear wireless headphones and then a good pair of ear defenders over the top work very well indeed! I put in the thinnest solution I could find in my kitchen for the party wall, as I was very limited with the space I could lose due to sink / worktops etc. and fitted two layers of mass loaded vinyl to the wall with soundproofing plasterboard on top. I also lifted floorboards in the room above and repointed the brickwork along the party wall and put mineral wool in-between the joists. Took almost a week to do it myself, was very heavy and hard to work with but I did take my time and made sure I did as good a job as possible. Made a very limited difference to structural noise as I can still hear the fumble fingered muppets continued to slam their cupboard doors, but did reduce the airborne noise by a noticeable amount - over half, possibly more. Certainly seemed more effective for higher frequencies, which worked out well as I can rarely if ever hear the woman's awful tuneless "singing" any more .gif) |
#12948946, By henro_ben Sound Proofing a House
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