"Building Soundproof Walls
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The partition walls in most family homes are constructed of drywall (sheetrock) firmly attached to both sides of a wood or metal stud frame. When sound waves hit one side of the wall it causes the drywall on that side to vibrate. Since the drywall is rigidly connected to the stud frame, the vibration is transmitted right through the studwork to the drywall on the other side. Those same vibrations traveling through the studwork can also channel noise throughout adjacent floors and ceilings. Noise will radiate easily through the structure because there's almost nothing there to cushion and absorb the sound waves.
At the introduction to this series we discussed some rather inexpensive solutions for sound control that produce fair to good results, the following solutions are a little more costly but more effective."
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4.28.2006
Port wants to gag hill residents over noise - Hawkes Bay Today - Apr 10 2006 11:59AM - localnews
"TOP STORY: Port wants to gag hill residents over noise
10.04.2006
RACHEL PINDER
Disgruntled residents on Napier's Bluff Hill are being asked to sign a document that will gag them and future residents from making noise complaints about the Port of Napier for the next 200 years.
Residents are also up in arms about a plan which requires permission from the Port to rebuild on their residential sections.
The Port Company is being notified of building consent applications for properties closest to the port and given the chance to object or impose conditions on residential development.
Conditions include banning noise complaints and barring property owners from joining the residents' group fighting the district plan provisions."
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10.04.2006
RACHEL PINDER
Disgruntled residents on Napier's Bluff Hill are being asked to sign a document that will gag them and future residents from making noise complaints about the Port of Napier for the next 200 years.
Residents are also up in arms about a plan which requires permission from the Port to rebuild on their residential sections.
The Port Company is being notified of building consent applications for properties closest to the port and given the chance to object or impose conditions on residential development.
Conditions include banning noise complaints and barring property owners from joining the residents' group fighting the district plan provisions."
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Good flooring is only as good as what's beneath it.
By ROSEMARY SADEZ FRIEDMANN
Scripps Howard News Service
10-APR-06
"Of all the surfaces in a home, the floor gets the most abuse as it stands up to the wear and tear of daily traffic. The original foundation in most homes accommodates these needs; it is what is put on top of the slab that determines the visible and tactile satisfaction we need.
Fortunately, there is no lack of good choices of substantial floor coverings. But selection is not the only question; good flooring is only as good as its installation. What goes above the slab but under the finished product is as important as the carpet, tile or stone that we end up with."
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Scripps Howard News Service
10-APR-06
"Of all the surfaces in a home, the floor gets the most abuse as it stands up to the wear and tear of daily traffic. The original foundation in most homes accommodates these needs; it is what is put on top of the slab that determines the visible and tactile satisfaction we need.
Fortunately, there is no lack of good choices of substantial floor coverings. But selection is not the only question; good flooring is only as good as its installation. What goes above the slab but under the finished product is as important as the carpet, tile or stone that we end up with."
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Sound Proofing Supplier for the UK
"Sound Proofing Specialist Suppliers
Welcome to NosieStop Systems online web site. We have been working in the soundproofing industry for many years now. This was a result from when the founder couldn't find soundproofing company that could cater for the level of sound reduction that he needed at an affordable price. So he decided to make his own soundproofing company. NoiseStop Systems a company with its sole purpose of making and distributing sound reductive materials that solved the noise problems that he was facing.Our company sells many different types of products to combat sound problems. Systems for floors, for ceiling walls and more."
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Welcome to NosieStop Systems online web site. We have been working in the soundproofing industry for many years now. This was a result from when the founder couldn't find soundproofing company that could cater for the level of sound reduction that he needed at an affordable price. So he decided to make his own soundproofing company. NoiseStop Systems a company with its sole purpose of making and distributing sound reductive materials that solved the noise problems that he was facing.Our company sells many different types of products to combat sound problems. Systems for floors, for ceiling walls and more."
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4.03.2006
Thin rowhouse walls need help to keep out the noise
Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/31/2006 | Your Place | Thin rowhouse walls need help to keep out the noise: "Your Place | Thin rowhouse walls need help to keep out the noise
By Alan J. Heavens
Inquirer Real Estate Writer
Question: I just bought a rowhouse in Fishtown. For some reason, I can hear my neighbors (and their annoying barking dogs) as if they were in the next room. It seems to happen on the first floor only. Is there anything I can do?
A:This much is true about rowhouses: Your neighbors are in the next room. In most rowhouses, the party wall is just one or two bricks deep, depending on how inexpensively the houses were built. And even a wall two-bricks deep will not deaden sound.
Plaster is what helps reduce the noise transfer from one house to another. At some point since the houses were constructed, an owner may have taken down the plaster and replaced it with a half-inch of drywall or worse, sheet-thin Masonite, neither of which has soundproofing qualities. Typically, it's the first floor where such changes are made.
In addition, rowhouses have chaseways that carry utilities and soil stacks and the like from the basement to the top of the structure. These act like sound amplifiers.
What to do? Replace the walls with a thicker layer of drywall and fill up those chaseways with acoustic insulation and foam. That should quiet things down."
By Alan J. Heavens
Inquirer Real Estate Writer
Question: I just bought a rowhouse in Fishtown. For some reason, I can hear my neighbors (and their annoying barking dogs) as if they were in the next room. It seems to happen on the first floor only. Is there anything I can do?
A:This much is true about rowhouses: Your neighbors are in the next room. In most rowhouses, the party wall is just one or two bricks deep, depending on how inexpensively the houses were built. And even a wall two-bricks deep will not deaden sound.
Plaster is what helps reduce the noise transfer from one house to another. At some point since the houses were constructed, an owner may have taken down the plaster and replaced it with a half-inch of drywall or worse, sheet-thin Masonite, neither of which has soundproofing qualities. Typically, it's the first floor where such changes are made.
In addition, rowhouses have chaseways that carry utilities and soil stacks and the like from the basement to the top of the structure. These act like sound amplifiers.
What to do? Replace the walls with a thicker layer of drywall and fill up those chaseways with acoustic insulation and foam. That should quiet things down."
Concrete Construction Makes for a SoundProof Home
"Termites wouldn't like this rock-hard house
April 2, 2006
AUBURN, Maine --Termites wouldn't like the house Mike Mercier built.
Mercier, of Auburn, built his house out of concrete -- 85 yards of it. From the outside, the new 2,300-square-foot ranch-style home doesn't look a lot different from most. The basement and foot-thick exterior walls are made of concrete -- but so are the floors, windowsills, countertops and end tables.
April 2, 2006
AUBURN, Maine --Termites wouldn't like the house Mike Mercier built.
Mercier, of Auburn, built his house out of concrete -- 85 yards of it. From the outside, the new 2,300-square-foot ranch-style home doesn't look a lot different from most. The basement and foot-thick exterior walls are made of concrete -- but so are the floors, windowsills, countertops and end tables.
Mercier and his wife are often asked if their bed is concrete. It is not.
Mercier, who has run a concrete contracting business for three decades, said he got the idea of building a concrete house from an exhibit he visited at a World of Concrete convention.
Construction involved no wood framing or plywood, just windows, siding and interior Sheetrock. Hollow foam blocks were stacked and angled inside the walls before concrete was pumped around it.
The walls are so soundproof that the Merciers' dog has a hard time hearing people come up the driveway now. They are also energy efficient, because foam and concrete homes are supposed to use two-thirds less oil to heat, Mercier said."
An 'Old House' Fly-By
An 'Old House' fly-by
By Logan's roar, show starts neighborhood buzz
By Erica Noonan, Globe Staff | April 2, 2006
Don't be surprised if you see the cast and crew of ''This Old House' lining up for early-morning doughnuts at Betty Ann Bakery, or late-night pizza at Santarpio's.
For the next seven months, the venerable home-improvement TV show will be stationed at St. Andrew Road, working to transform a tired two-family into a modern urban homestead for third-generation owner Christine Flynn and her niece, Liz Bagley."
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By Logan's roar, show starts neighborhood buzz
By Erica Noonan, Globe Staff | April 2, 2006
Don't be surprised if you see the cast and crew of ''This Old House' lining up for early-morning doughnuts at Betty Ann Bakery, or late-night pizza at Santarpio's.
For the next seven months, the venerable home-improvement TV show will be stationed at St. Andrew Road, working to transform a tired two-family into a modern urban homestead for third-generation owner Christine Flynn and her niece, Liz Bagley."
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