Reply To: Petition to ADHD housing (sound proof) USA

[scott]

The U.S. Government Printing Office has a publication called “Quieting” by an acoustical physicist and researcher named Raymond Berendt.  It is full of advice on how to modify your environment to make it sound proof.  It’s actually not that expensive.  An extra layer of drywall glued with a non-hardening glue, no screws or nails as they conduct sound; a ceiling of drywall hung on flexible hat channel with no other connections to the building– crown molding and flexible caulk can finish the room.  There are sleeves that can be placed in duct work to baffle the sound and dampen it– there are also HVAC registers that have aerodynamic fins that don’t have a shoooshing sound.  Put a sweep on the bottom of you door so that no sound can come under the door.  Hang a quilted blanket on the inside of your door.  Storm windows can have a dampening effect, especially if they are mounted on rubber.  You don’t have to do it to your whole house or apartment, just try it on one room.

The principle is isolate the environment from vibration coming through the structure by placing something flexible between you.  You could probably come close to making it as soundproof as a recording studio.   I’ve used some of these techniques, they work.

 

 

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