We select materials for soundproofing
At present the most popular and widely used soundproofing material is glass wool. This building material includes two of the highest quality products: mineral wool and fiberglass. Its advantages include increased elasticity, strength, and vibration resistance.
You can also use standard mineral wool. It will not only protect your home from extraneous sounds, but also act as thermal insulation material for your apartment or house. Its main advantages include strength, as well as full ecological compatibility, which excludes allergic reactions of the body.
Another common material is the ZIPS panel. If you decide that the soundproofing of the brick wall of your home should be made by them, you need to know some of its features. First, the ZIPS panels are a mixture of mineral wool and gypsum fiber.
Secondly, the installation of this soundproofing device is made directly on the surface without any frame structures. Thirdly, since the width of this material can be 40, 70 or 120 mm, then, accordingly, you will have to sacrifice the space of the room.
Warning! The ZIPS panels have too much weight( 18.5-21 kg), which implies a strong and stable partition structure, if you decide to soundproof this particular element.
In addition to all the above construction materials, plasterboard, mounted in a pair of layers, can also act as a good sound absorber.
Simple ways to improve the sound insulation of walls
It is worth noting that sound insulation of walls in an apartment can be carried out by simple and more complex methods. Let's start with a description of simple. The easiest option is to seal the joints from the street. We all know perfectly well what quality modern construction companies offer. So, during the construction of houses, little attention is paid to such seams, and through them all kinds of sounds penetrate into the room.
The same procedure can be performed directly inside the apartment. To do this, you have to get rid of all the finishing materials on the wall, then make the closure of cracks and walk with the mortar along the seams of the walls. Particular attention is paid to window openings. After all, it is there that cracks are often seen!
Among other things, simple methods of conducting soundproofing work suggest strengthening the absorbing qualities of outlets and switches. You will have a couple of options.
The first is that you can simply seal the hole under the outlet or switch and make the installation of new equipment, which is applied directly to the surface. The second option is the purchase of special electrical elements. It can be, for example, a female box with soundproof curtains.
Tip! Excellent sound absorbers are carpets on the walls or, for example, built-in furniture, as well as furniture from plasterboard. Thus, you get a beautiful interior, and protect the apartment from extraneous noise.
Serious sound insulation of the walls with your own hands
If you decided to make soundproofing of walls with your own hands thoroughly and for centuries, then you will have to spend more time and money on the work. The most common method of soundproofing is plaster surface .To do this you will need a reinforcing mesh of fiberglass, as well as a plaster solution. With the help of dowels-nails the mesh is attached to the base of the wall, and then plaster is poured onto it. Then this whole thing is leveled and the finish is made.
As a sound absorber, you can use specially designed materials for this. One of these is ThermoSonicIsol .On his example, we suggest to consider the algorithm of the work:
- A frame is made on the surface of the wall from wooden blocks. It will be enough to have vertical racks spaced no more than 50 cm apart.
Attention! Between the wall and the bars leave a gap that should be enough to produce the ThermoSonic Isola !
- The material is laid in such a way that there remains a small admission of the insulator on the floor and ceiling.
- Using the previously built frame of wooden beams, we attach to it sheets of plasterboard. This will make an additional soundproof barrier.
- Next, the plasterboard shpaklyuetsya and it is already mounted on the selected finishing materials. It can be either wallpaper , or paint.