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AJGR wrote:

th@-pu$$y wrote:

These studio kits from Auralex are not too expensive and work really well. If you do go this route, don't use the glue that comes in the kit cuz you'll never get the foam back off the wall should you ever decide to move.

that's acoustic treatment not sound isolation.
all that foam will change the sound of your room for better or worse but it's not going to stop long bass waves going through the ceiling.

Acoustic treatment Will dampen sound on the other side of the wall if used properly as well as diffuse in the room.

Erm, no it wont. Not to any significant degree anyway, if you totally deaden your room you may get 1 or 2db, max, inaudible difference.

@daft tnuc.

Ceilings are relatively easy to treat with a ceiling (plasterboard ideally, one or two layers) hung from resilient straps or hangers, with rockwool in the cavity. Floors are a nightmare unless you can install a ceiling in the room below, which is highly unlikely in a shared accommodation. You can get something like the BG Silentfloor, which suspends plasterboard ona resilient channel between the joists, but its expensive, heavy and requires ripping up the entire floor.

And youll always be limited by the walls. although vertically ceilings are generally the weak point and youll get a decent improvement.

What are the walls, plasterboard or block/brick? If you knock, brick, block is very hard, and plasterboards a bit softer and sounds hollow. Brick and block will give you around 45dB reduction overall, and are reasonable at low frequency, PB is rubbish.

HTH

Ben

Thanks for all the valuable infos mate.

The walls inside the apartment are made of plasterboard but the walls separating the apartments are made of brick.
I guess the first step will be to go to my neighbours while playing reasonably loud music and see what's the soundproofing is worth.

daft tnuc wrote:Thanks for all the valuable infos mate.

The walls inside the apartment are made of plasterboard but the walls separating the apartments are made of brick.
I guess the first step will be to go to my neighbours while playing reasonably loud music and see what's the soundproofing is worth.

Yeah i'd go see if they even mind too much before you go doing stuff to your walls.