Soundproofer Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire (CV37): If the level of noise is causing problems in your home in Stratford-upon-Avon then it might be time to look into installing soundproofing to make your living room, bedroom, studio or home office a sanctuary of peace and quiet from your fellow occupants, neighbours and the outside world. You might also be aware of noise from a home cinema or family room escaping and causing a disturbance to others in the house. Whatever your requirements, soundproofing will help to maintain your peace of mind.
Before we are able to identify strategies for reducing sound pollution, it will help if we understand just how sound travels and is transmitted.
Basically, sound moves in two ways around a home:
1. Around and within a solid object by vibration and reflection.
2. Through the air by vibration of air molecules.
As whale and dolphin song shows, sound also travels through water, but unless you wish to soundproof an aquarium or pool we'll look only at the methods of soundproofing structures and rooms.
SOUND TRAVEL THROUGH THE AIR
Sounds can be transferred out of and into a room through open ducting, gaps around doors, ill fitted windows and even electrical switches and sockets. All sounds and noise will create movement and vibration of the molecules in the air, and this is what we pick up and hear. Irrespective of the source of the sound; passing aircraft, music, road traffic, children playing or heavy machinery, all sounds are created and transferred in exactly the same way.
If you try to think of your room as if it were a bucket, and you're attempting to identify any leaks that need sealing before you fill it with liquid.
SOUND TRAVELLING THROUGH STRUCTURES AND OBJECTS
As sound moves through the air by vibrations, then it makes sense that those vibrations can be reflected by, transferred to or absorbed by different materials. Sound will vibrate the ceilings, walls and floors of your rooms, and can result in a resonating effect that's transmitted outside the area. Even a solid concrete room, such as a basement, can generate a resonance path which transmits sound waves, and even amplify them, to other areas of a structure.
But, how can these sound generating effects be stopped from creating an issue? The solution is not surprisingly, soundproofing!
SIMPLE SOUNDPROOFING STEPS
A bare floor surface is more resonant than one covered with a rug or carpet. Not only will such a simple solution help to reduce your noise pollution problem, but it can also perk up the room. Hanging curtains and wall coverings can also damp down sound vibrations and reflections through windows and walls without the need for a team of professional soundproofing specialists.
Search for areas in your room where noise can escape or come in; windows, light fittings, electrical sockets and doors, and stop up any holes or gaps. You can find professional acoustic sealants in some building supply stores which moderate the transfer of sound by suppressing the sound waves. Acoustic sealants are inclined to be a touch more pricey than normal plaster or other sealant products, but their unique soundproofing qualities far outweigh the additional cost.
If you are luckily enough to be redecorating or renovating while tackling your soundproofing requirements, then look at putting up an extra skin of plasterboard (also called gyproc, sheet rock or drywall). This is a relatively dense board that is a perfect and economic soundproofing material. If you're fitting a music studio, movie room or study then plasterboard will help to minimise sound pollution for that room, and can be decorated easily after installment. It is best to hire a certified contractor near you to put up the plasterboard unless you've some experience in this sort of work.
The final DIY solution is to think about the doors within your home in Stratford-upon-Avon. Hollow doors are a comparatively cheap option but their soundproofing capabilities are far from the best. Switching hollow core doors for solid core will improve the soundproofing attributes of a room with only a small extra cost.
PROFESSIONAL SOUNDPROOFING STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
If the sound levels are high in your area, on account of aircraft passing overhead, or traffic noise from a nearby road for instance, then more serious ways to reduce the excess noise will need to be explored. This is an instance when the services of a professional soundproofing installer will bring the best results.
The first questions you can expect to be asked are:
- How large is the area you need to have soundproofed?
- What are the specific noises that need to soundproofed? i.e. Is it outside noises such as overflying aircraft, traffic noise, neighbours playing loud music etc, or is it from inside your house such as a family room or music studio.
- Where is the majority of the noise pollution coming from? The ceiling, floors, walls, windows or doors.
- What kind of room or area do you wish to soundproof? Is it a plasterboarded partition wall, a fully lined concrete wall or a brick wall etc.
Your answers to these questions will allow you to get quotations for the various available solutions to suit your requirements. Solutions might vary in line with the different materials needed for each of the main trouble spots in your property.
PROFESSIONAL SOUNDPROOFING OF CEILINGS, WALLS and FLOORS
Two key approaches are required to soundproof any sort of room or space:
- Minimise sound amplifying and resonating.
- Improve the absorption of sound.
An on-site survey will be necessary to examine the areas that need to be improved.
Solutions identified by the survey will include the addition of materials with different masses and densities to help improve the soundproofing characteristics of the room. The use of acoustic rubbers and foams of varying mass and density will help to absorb noise and reduce reflections and transmission sources.
Insulation between any voids will be upgraded or improved to lessen the noise resonation and amplification of these sound boxes. If you imagine these spaces as similar to a drum then you can see that by leaving wall cavities and floor or ceiling joist spaces empty, you are effectively creating a noise amplifying area.
Soundproofing is maximised if different densities and materials are employed, rather than installing only one type of material. The various materials will eliminate different frequencies of sound and deliver a more sympathetic feeling and auditory experience to a room.
Any soundproofing contractor in Stratford-upon-Avon will have to abide by the Part E of the Building Regulations, if your property is residential in nature. This set of regulations is a requirement in law to protect yourself and neighbours from the effects of sound pollution in a setting where people work and live.
Trade organisations in the soundproofing industry who provide advice, training and qualifications are the Association of Noise Consultants and the Institute of Acoustics. Any Stratford-upon-Avon firm displaying ANC or IOA accreditation will have been vetted to make sure they provide the highest standards, reliability and quality of workmanship within the soundproofing industry.
Where is Soundproofing Available?
Soundproofing is available in Stratford-upon-Avon and also in nearby places like: Dodwell, Black Hill, Snitterfield, Shottery, Wilmcote, Goldicote, Old Town, Clifford Chambers, Alveston, Tiddington, Binton, Clopton, Welford on Avon, Luddington, Hampton Lucy, and in these postcodes CV37 0TE, CV37 0ZG, CV37 1JF, CV37 0RR, CV37 0DR, CV37 0TG, CV37 0GB, CV37 0RJ, CV37 1AS, and CV37 1BB. Locally based Stratford-upon-Avon soundproofing specialists will most likely have the postcode CV37 and the telephone code 01789. Checking this will ensure you access locally based tradesmen installing soundproofing. Stratford-upon-Avon homeowners can benefit from these and various other related services. To get quotations for soundproofing, click the "Quote" banner.
More Advice and Guidance
Forums are available on a lot of topics, and soundproofing is no different, so take a peek at the AV Soundproofing Forum. To check out an interesting article about soundproofing a room head here. The dedicated Wikipedia "soundproofing" page is the place to go to for info on commercial soundproofing, residential soundproofing, ceiling soundproofing, wall soundproofing, floor soundproofing, noise barriers, resonant absorbers and porous absorbers. Get an in depth YouTube guide about how to soundproof a wall against noisy neighbours here To find accredited and recommended soundproofing installers in Stratford-upon-Avon you could visit the government authorized Trustmark or Rated People. To get to know about the latest soundproofing developments on social websites, check this out.
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