Browse Forums Windows & Doors 1 Jan 29, 2010 8:27 am Hi, We have a sound problem and the doors seem to be the weakest link in the chain? It's a 2 storey house, no carpet anywhere, just porcelain tiles and solid timber flooring - the sound bounces around like crazy. We have SoundScreen mid-floor batts but in our situation they aren't helping. # Do you people with carpets in two storey houses have similar sound problems? Most of the sound seems to bounce around and up the staircase, hard to stop that but a lot goes under the doors and also through the doors. Are there solid or sound proof doors? Perhaps an attachment for the bottom? How about those ribbon type things you stick in the door jambs. do they help? Any other ideas? The noise is driving me mad. Thanks in advance Re: Quieter doors, rugs and sound proofing house? 2Feb 02, 2010 8:18 am I once stayed for a couple of weeks in a house in Liechtenstein (on the border of Austria and Switzerland) for an absolutely delightful time. The house had solid internal doors which sealed to the frame. The sound proofing was noticeable; what I didn't think about was how they dealt with the issue of ventilation. Houses in Liechtenstein are not cheap, but then they are built primarily to last a long time, unlike Australian houses. It is possible to purchase solid internal doors, but whether you are able to buy ones that seal to the door frame, I don't know. Pfiff Finally making progress again, with a clothesline (yippee) and some much needed little things being attended to over the holidays. 40 C on New Year's eve? We love our a/c! Re: Quieter doors, rugs and sound proofing house? 3Feb 02, 2010 9:33 am Hmmmm, sorry to say, but what do you expect with hard floors everywhere?! Adding softness anywhere you can is going to make a difference (rugs, textile wall hangings etc). I could not live in a house like that! Ash. Re: Quieter doors, rugs and sound proofing house? 4Feb 02, 2010 2:43 pm While building, we rented a single storey house and were driven crazy by the noise. There were carpets in the bedrooms and the small lounge, but the main part of the house was tiled, it was all open-plan and had 9' ceilings. Everything echoed and was amplified, and sleeping while other people were awake was impossible. Our current house also has 9' ceilings and there's a fair bit of open-plan design too, but it's much quieter. We have floorboards in the main living areas and carpet in bedrooms, study and lounge. The boards are a bit creaky, but they don't create as much echo or overall noise as the tiles in the other place. I suggest you add some rugs and other soft surfaces (fabric chairs and sofas, perhaps some large canvases on walls, maybe some curtains instead of blinds?) and see if it helps at all. Sealing around doors might work, but if you have ducted heating or cooling, those systems are usually designed to work with doors open, so doing that might make them less effective. I'm sure you can get solid doors, but I've no idea what it would cost to swap all internal doors to those. Scientists have used random matrix theory to demonstrate theoretically that the neutrino mass hierarchy can be explained mathematically. When a substance is fragmented… 21 20638 It worked for me in getting all non notified rain days removed from the builders claim, although the LDs was only $50/day 7 5875 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 16221 |