| There is nothing more stressing than to be woken | | | | A good sound barrier ceiling treatment can deliver |
| up in the middle of the night from sound or to not | | | | up to a 90% reduction in plenum noise, foot noise |
| even get a good night’s sleep. Soundproofing | | | | or noise bleeding into or out of your room |
| your bedroom from either other rooms in your | | | | through the ceiling. A sound absorption ceiling |
| home, outside sounds, or, if you are in an | | | | treatment can restore your room to good quality |
| apartment, your neighbors, can help you get a | | | | sound by collapsing your reverberations times |
| better nights rest and lower your stress level. | | | | down to under 2.0 seconds. |
| The goal in soundproofing a room correctly is to | | | | Another consideration is your floors. Deadening |
| block the transmission of sound from bleeding | | | | noise that transmits through a common floor |
| through a common wall. Ultimately you want to | | | | ceiling assembly system is accomplished by either |
| impair the wall's ability to conduct vibration. This is | | | | raising the floor up above or lowering the ceiling |
| accomplished by adding two components to your | | | | down below, lining with a soundproofing substrate, |
| wall assembly. The first is density, the second is | | | | and applying the finished surface. This creates a |
| disconnection. The combination of these two | | | | disconnection that forces transmitting sound |
| ingredients will help force the collapse of your | | | | waves to collapse structurally and protects the |
| sound wave inside your wall, and can trigger up to | | | | adjoining space from noise. |
| a 90% drop in sound transmission. | | | | Floor underlayment treatments target the |
| Your treatment will depend on your starting point, | | | | reduction of foot noise and squeaking floors for |
| but a treatment can reasonably trigger a 10-12 dB | | | | stronger floor sound control |
| drop in noise levels bleeding through a common | | | | Last are windows. Soundproof Windows are |
| wall. Much of the success of a sound isolation wall | | | | acoustical windows designed to affix directly over |
| will depend on the quality of the installation, the | | | | your existing window treatment to help block |
| disconnected framing techniques, and the number | | | | noise and produce a soundproof window. These |
| of holes in your wall surface that will impair your | | | | sound insulation windows serve as a sound barrier |
| noise reduction efforts. | | | | for soundproofing a window against street traffic |
| Open air holes in a wall are called "flanking" paths | | | | noise, loud neighbors, barking dogs, as well as |
| and will serve to deteriorate results. Flanking paths | | | | protecting neighbors from garage bands, home |
| include switch plates, electrical outlets, supply | | | | theaters, drum rooms and music room noise. |
| vents, return vents, light canisters, pipes, | | | | These are attractive acoustic windows that will |
| windows, doors, and a host of other possible | | | | anchor directly in front of your existing windows |
| paths that cannot block noise bleed. For | | | | to combat sound transmission. These are not |
| soundproofing common walls, using a product such | | | | replacement windows, they are acoustic windows |
| as dB-Bloc minimizes the flanking paths and can | | | | that are applied over your existing windows. |
| trigger up to a 90% drop in noise bleeding | | | | Soundproof Windows are available in many color |
| through. | | | | options or can be custom painted for a |
| Another way to soundproof is through combating | | | | decorative window soundproofing treatment. |
| the bleed of noise through the ceiling. This offers | | | | So if you aren’t getting a good night’s |
| greater sound isolation and privacy between | | | | sleep or are even a light sleeper, soundproofing |
| rooms that share this common surface. Ceiling tile | | | | your bedroom will certainly be worth the |
| treatments are designed to capture unwelcome | | | | investment. |
| sound reflections in the room. | | | | |