Soundproofing the walls of the house and apartment with your own hands (96 photos): a simple instruction on the execution of work and the selection of materials

How to make noise insulation at home

The initial stage is a thorough examination of the walls for the presence of various cracks and holes. Detected holes should be thoroughly wiped with putty.

Then carefully examine all, without exception, existing outlets in the room, because often they directly turn out to be the main source of noise.

Such an operation does not need to be ignored, since directly, without exception, all actions in the complex will help to achieve the expected result. Nowadays, you can buy special sealants that withstand temperature fluctuations.

With the help of such materials, it will not be difficult for you to make noise insulation, and to finish all the seams between the pipes and the wall.

These steps are only preliminary, but mandatory if you intend to soundproof the walls of the house with your own hands.

Typical wall sound insulation errors

Returning, after a working day, we have a desire to spend a quiet evening and relax in peace. However, as a rule, quiet evenings and early mornings at the weekend come the sounds from the entrance, conversations of neighbors, the cry of children from the street.

Sound insulation work will help to eliminate such problems, but it should be sorted out in some errors that are most often made during such a procedure.

Wrong choice of material used. We do not recommend using cork, polystyrene or polyethylene foam as the material. They have a very low coefficient of sound insulation.

The use of widely popular paints, wallpapers, cellulose-based plasters will also not bring much benefit, since they do not have very significant, anti-noise qualities.

However, we should take into account the fact that we need not to get rid of the sounds present in our room, but to get rid of the sounds that penetrate.

Incorrect selection of the method of fastening the used material. During the implementation of sound insulation, we need to get rid of the sound vibrations that come to us from the outside. For this reason, connecting sound-absorbing materials will not reduce the number of sounds, because such surfaces themselves are already sources of noise.

Failure to soundproof technical equipment. Water pipes, other components of technical networks must be treated with soundproofing materials, or placed, as far as possible, further from the rooms that you want to isolate from noise.

Absence or incorrect insulation of window openings. The double-glazed window should be maximum in width, in addition, you should use a three-circuit seal of the wings according to the entire perimeter of the windows, since the profile property affects sound insulation to a greater extent than the composition of the double-glazed window.

Of course, there are much more errors, however, the earlier ones are considered the most common.

In order not to change the sound insulation of the living space, a suitable option would be to consult with an electro-acoustic engineer who will draw up a list of recommendations and diagrams of technical systems and insulation designs.

Soundproofing - Secrets of Quality

More recently, the problem of sound insulation was not given much attention during construction.

A striking example is the high-rise buildings that are built up in most cities. These are buildings not only of our time, but also of the Soviet model.

Residents of such houses note excellent audibility not only from neighboring apartments, but also floors. Innovative technological processes of construction need high-quality sound insulation in apartments even more.

Today, the connection of soundproofing plates to the base of a metal profile fixed on the walls is used. It is not difficult to organize high-quality soundproofing, but an understanding of some aspects, which are revised further, is necessary.

The base should not be fixed directly to the wall. A special sealing tape should be placed between the wall and the metal profile. Experts recommend putting it in two layers. Also, you can familiarize yourself with the photo of the correct sound insulation to avoid such errors.

In an effort to save resources or save time, mineral wool or polystyrene are used as a material for sound insulation. Both of these materials are heat and not sound absorbers in any way, for this reason their characteristics in this area are much inferior to specialized materials.

In addition, these materials are not environmentally friendly, and polystyrene is also combustible.

For the purpose of internal sound insulation, it is necessary to apply directly sound plates, for example, ECO plates "MAXFORT" or Schumanet-EK of AMiT company.

It is rational to cover the noise insulator with 2 layers of drywall or a “sandwich” of drywall in gypsum fiber.

These are the main flaws that all your efforts can destroy, so be careful and choose the right materials.

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