You can probably remember a time when you wished the rooms in your home, condo, or apartment had better acoustic sound proofing - maybe the vacuum in the living room kept waking up the little one during nap time, or the late night TV in your teenager’s room was distracting you from your book, or the old washing machine really got on your nerves.
I found some great do-it-yourself, acoustic products when I was looking for a way to soundproof my home theater without spending a ton of money. I’m not talking about a massive home theater, just a simple set-up in my living room. I was getting too much noise transference through the walls and family members were getting sick of hearing movie noise coming into the computer room and bedrooms.
I looked for soundproofing material to keep the home theater sound from infiltrating every other adjacent room in the house.
Most of the acoustic products and sound barrier information I came across had to do with adding sheetrock to the walls or getting inside the walls and filling the wall cavities with expensive soundproofing material. A lot of the info talked about professional music studios, expensive acoustic products and how to build one in your home. I wasn’t looking to get that involved and my carpentry knowledge is pretty much limited to hanging family pictures. I’m not even good at that.
After a little digging around on the web, I came across something called dB2-4Walls. It claimed to reduce noise up to 75%. It’s applied to existing walls, kind of like wallpaper, so you don’t need to tear your house or condo walls apart. It took some simple measuring to figure out how much I needed and adhesive, too. You can apply the adhesive to the wall or right on the back of the dB2-4Walls product. There’s an installation video on the website which is pretty in-depth and helpful - more than enough information to get the job done. An added bonus of this acoustic sound proofing stuff is that it’s made from post-industrial scrap. Basically, it’s stuff that was headed for landfills that scientists figured out how to turn into acoustic materials.
So, I bought some rolls and put it up all by myself. It was pretty easy, even for me. I painted over it to match the color of the room so the look of my home didn’t change at all. It’s designed to be painted over.
So, did this stuff quiet down my movies and keep the rest of my family sane? It did. They say that it reduces noise by 75%. I can tell you that it’s much quieter throughout my place.
They also offer an acoustic floor treatment called dB-4looring that installs as a subfloor application. Maybe I’ll use this acoustic floor treatment if I get to that addition. They also offer acoustic material for new wall construction. dB-3 installs beneath drywall in new walls; dB-6sticks is a ductwork acoustic product that eliminates the “ping” sound; and dB-5iber is just like the stuff I used, but it’s got a fabric texture to it. They also offer MyTheater Walls, which are these panels that hang like pictures. They absorb echo in home theater rooms and conference rooms to create a cleaner sound quality.
I found some great do-it-yourself, acoustic products when I was looking for a way to soundproof my home theater without spending a ton of money. I’m not talking about a massive home theater, just a simple set-up in my living room. I was getting too much noise transference through the walls and family members were getting sick of hearing movie noise coming into the computer room and bedrooms.
I looked for soundproofing material to keep the home theater sound from infiltrating every other adjacent room in the house.
Most of the acoustic products and sound barrier information I came across had to do with adding sheetrock to the walls or getting inside the walls and filling the wall cavities with expensive soundproofing material. A lot of the info talked about professional music studios, expensive acoustic products and how to build one in your home. I wasn’t looking to get that involved and my carpentry knowledge is pretty much limited to hanging family pictures. I’m not even good at that.
After a little digging around on the web, I came across something called dB2-4Walls. It claimed to reduce noise up to 75%. It’s applied to existing walls, kind of like wallpaper, so you don’t need to tear your house or condo walls apart. It took some simple measuring to figure out how much I needed and adhesive, too. You can apply the adhesive to the wall or right on the back of the dB2-4Walls product. There’s an installation video on the website which is pretty in-depth and helpful - more than enough information to get the job done. An added bonus of this acoustic sound proofing stuff is that it’s made from post-industrial scrap. Basically, it’s stuff that was headed for landfills that scientists figured out how to turn into acoustic materials.
So, I bought some rolls and put it up all by myself. It was pretty easy, even for me. I painted over it to match the color of the room so the look of my home didn’t change at all. It’s designed to be painted over.
So, did this stuff quiet down my movies and keep the rest of my family sane? It did. They say that it reduces noise by 75%. I can tell you that it’s much quieter throughout my place.
They also offer an acoustic floor treatment called dB-4looring that installs as a subfloor application. Maybe I’ll use this acoustic floor treatment if I get to that addition. They also offer acoustic material for new wall construction. dB-3 installs beneath drywall in new walls; dB-6sticks is a ductwork acoustic product that eliminates the “ping” sound; and dB-5iber is just like the stuff I used, but it’s got a fabric texture to it. They also offer MyTheater Walls, which are these panels that hang like pictures. They absorb echo in home theater rooms and conference rooms to create a cleaner sound quality.
Acoustic And Soundproofing Material
511 Hay Street - P.O. Box 807 - Mount Airy, NC 27030 (336) 786-2127
www.United Plastics.com
www.United Plastics.com
