Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Jun 03, 2009 3:49 am Hi all. I am not from Australia or the surrounding area but this is the most frequented renovation and building forum I found so I'm glad to be here. I recently moved into a condo that was supposed to be a 2 bedroom plus a sun room. We turned the sun room into a 3rd bedroom as we are 3 students trying to save some money. I realize that the choice to save money has put me into a bit of a position I do not want to be in but I am trying to make the best of it. This is where I need help. The size of my room is small and that isn't an issue as I have set it up to save space and am more than comfortable. The problem is noise. There are sliding glass doors that separate my room from my roommate. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Something like that. This leaves me and him little privacy and I can actually hear him rolling over in his bed the sound is so clear. We are renting the place and can't do an extreme renovation or anything as the place has to be in the same shape when we leave it as we came in. I was looking into some sound proofing material that can go over the door. Or hammering up some drywall on both sides of the glass doors and putting insulation in between. Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions or maybe even some names of good sound dampening materials could help. Many thanks! Re: Sound Proofing glass doors 2Jun 03, 2009 8:03 pm This stuff isn't cheap, and it's Australian, but I'm sure you'd find an equivalent: http://www.acoustica.com.au/acoustiflex.html I used to run a home sudio and used crinked rubber underlay as soundproofing - it worked extremely well. Wooden boards or thin solid panels won't be much good. You need something thicker and more "absorbant" of the sound. A full bookcase on one side and heavy drapes. You might even try to create a false door with very thin playwood with some of those big insulation bats sandwiched in between. The other thing you can try is to raise the "ambient background" noise level - that way you won't notice little noises that "spike" above the silence. Things like a continuously running air filter... Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Sound Proofing glass doors 3Jun 04, 2009 12:39 am i was thinking of getting some sound dampening foam and 2 pieces of drywall. stick the foam between the door and the drywall and nail the drywall to the existing wall above and to the sides of the door. its a quick fix and i think it will eliminate some of the sound. i'm not looking for complete quiet here, i just dont want to hear my roommate turning over in his bed. i can deal with murmurs and light talking and whatnot. as you said, its better to have a constant stream of noise to block out any little noise and we already have that as we live right behind a major highway and there is nice noise pollution right there. thanks for the help man! Re: Sound Proofing glass doors 4Jun 04, 2009 7:19 am If your room mate has timber floors, you could try getting him some large room sized carpet pieces. That will help absorb noise at floor level. Good luck, & welcome. HH Life's too short too drink bad wine Scientists have used random matrix theory to demonstrate theoretically that the neutrino mass hierarchy can be explained mathematically. When a substance is fragmented… 21 20624 thanks Chippy, i hope they have applied sealer but i am doubt to be honest, so i am gonna do this job after handover. 8 16179 Brass fly wire, you will need to cut it, shape it and jam it into brick slots 1 7450 |