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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. (Read More)
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. (Read More)
Acoustic And Soundproofing Material
Building Pride (Winter 2012): Using Recycled Materials To Mitigate Sound
Do you tiptoe around the house and worry about how gently you close every cupboard door because your home or condo has poor soundproofing? Do you sometimes avoid using the washer and dryer just because of the noise that you hear in other rooms? Does noise travel through your walls, eliminating privacy throughout your home? Ever wonder how to soundproof a room?
Room soundproofing can mean the difference between a productive day around the house and a day that pushes you to the edge of losing your sanity, especially when you’ve got kids running around. Most people think that stopping noise from traveling through every room in the house is impossible to do on your own. But, soundproofing your home doesn’t have to involve adding sheet rock, more layers of drywall, or filling the insides of the walls with space-age materials. Eliminating noise so you can create peace and quiet in the baby’s room, or any room for that matter, is a lot easier than you might think. (Read More)
Room soundproofing can mean the difference between a productive day around the house and a day that pushes you to the edge of losing your sanity, especially when you’ve got kids running around. Most people think that stopping noise from traveling through every room in the house is impossible to do on your own. But, soundproofing your home doesn’t have to involve adding sheet rock, more layers of drywall, or filling the insides of the walls with space-age materials. Eliminating noise so you can create peace and quiet in the baby’s room, or any room for that matter, is a lot easier than you might think. (Read More)
How To Soundproof A Room
Local Company Part Of "Extreme Makeover"
MOUNT AIRY, NC-Ten people from the company on Hay Street journeyed to Lexington on Nov. 13 to assist with building a house for a deserving family to be featured in a February segment of the reality TV show.
A group from United Plastics also returned to Lexington last Tuesday when the William and Tricia Creasey family came back to their old neighborhood from a vacation at Disney World and got its first look at the new 4,200-square-foot home. Tricia Creasey is suffering from Stage 5 cancer ... (Read More)
A group from United Plastics also returned to Lexington last Tuesday when the William and Tricia Creasey family came back to their old neighborhood from a vacation at Disney World and got its first look at the new 4,200-square-foot home. Tricia Creasey is suffering from Stage 5 cancer ... (Read More)
The products from United Plastic Corporation are lightweight, environmentally responsible and easy to install.
Living in a high-density apartment community offers many benefits and conveniences. For those with a busy lifestyle, among the greatest conveniences are the lack of yard work and a maintenance staff that repairs appliances and fixes other problems free of charge that homeowners would otherwise have to pay for. In addition, apartment dwellers enjoy the year-round use of luxurious community amenities such as swimming pools, outdoor fire pits, dog parks and movie theaters, and most communities these days are in excellent urban locations, within walking distance of parks, stores and your neighbors.
Those who rent are also free to move whenever the lease ends, without worrying about selling a home. However, one of the challenges of apartment living is dealing with the sounds from outside one’s apartment that can travel into the living space. For developers, sound attenuation is an extremely important aspect that must be properly addressed when building a multi-unit building. (Read More)
Living in a high-density apartment community offers many benefits and conveniences. For those with a busy lifestyle, among the greatest conveniences are the lack of yard work and a maintenance staff that repairs appliances and fixes other problems free of charge that homeowners would otherwise have to pay for. In addition, apartment dwellers enjoy the year-round use of luxurious community amenities such as swimming pools, outdoor fire pits, dog parks and movie theaters, and most communities these days are in excellent urban locations, within walking distance of parks, stores and your neighbors.
Those who rent are also free to move whenever the lease ends, without worrying about selling a home. However, one of the challenges of apartment living is dealing with the sounds from outside one’s apartment that can travel into the living space. For developers, sound attenuation is an extremely important aspect that must be properly addressed when building a multi-unit building. (Read More)
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California Architectural Firm To Use United Plastics dB Sound Control Solutions in MacDonalds Restaurants
The State of California is requiring that any McDonalds next to a Freeway or airport has to exceed an STC of 50. Ware Malcomb is the Architectural firm for McDonalds. They have specified our product because they can achieve STC levels without losing space(foot print) and it is economical.
United Plastic Corporation's Tim Maltry - Industry Expert
(Mount Airy, NC Feb 2, 2012) - United Plastics Corporation Acoustical Technologist, Tim Maltry, has been appointed to Vocon Architecture (Cleveland-New York) Sound Attenuation Team as an industry expert. His role will be industry input on proper products and application of sound control materials.
City of Austin, TX Uses dB-3 Product
(Mount Airy, NC Feb 3, 2012) The city Austin Texas has chosen dB-3 for their current office building refurbishment. The city was challenged with noise transmission between offices and picked dB-3 as a cost effective solution to the problem.