The issue of creating the noise insulation of walls is interested in many people living in multi -storey buildings built during the USSR. Of course, no one wants to listen to the extraneous noises of the neighbors, just like the neighbors themselves do not want all the tenants to know what they are doing now. The only way to solve this problem is the creation of sound insulation. Obviously, there is nothing complicated in this process. Any person can easily ensure the sound insulation of the walls in such a way that even with strong extraneous noise in the dwelling is quiet and comfortable.
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Features of noise insulation of the dwelling
It should be understood that noise insulation performs two functions at once:
- sound insulation ensures the reflection of any sounds from neighboring apartments. This will allow you to completely not hear what is happening outside the wall;
- sound absorption allows you to evenly distribute all the sound waves created inside the apartment. Accordingly, neighbors will not be able to hear what is happening within our apartment.
It is especially important to create noise insulation in large rooms in which layers of insulating material are guaranteed to give the rooms coziness and silence. At the same time, small apartments, primarily one -room, is better not to create sound insulation, as this visually narrows the space.
Creation of noise insulation using drywall
Today, it is precisely the drywall is used to create noise insulation. This is an inexpensive material that lends itself well to bending and cutting.
In this case, we will need:
- metal bars,
- sound -pounding material,
- drywall,
- metiza.
At the very beginning, you need to make sure that the wall does not have any flaws. These include various holes and cracks. Obviously, these defects will negatively affect sound insulation, even if the most expensive insulating materials are used.
Next, you will need to build a frame for sound insulation. To create a frame, a profile is required, which should be from the wall at a distance of a pair of sentiments. Between the wall and the frame you need to place some kind of noise-insulating material (you can also take a cork or rubber). All elements of the frame are attached using bolts and nuts. Also, dowels and metizes, fixed directly into the wall, can be used to attach the frame. However, you should pay attention to the fact that after driving the fastener element, a crack may form.
Now the most crucial moment of work, during which it is necessary to choose a soundproofing material and place it in the frame. Most often, glass wool or mineral wool is used as noise insulation material. Also in construction stores you can find semi -rigid plates based on mineral wool, which can also be used as sound insulation. In most stores, consultants will indicate which material has the maximum noise absorption coefficient. Often soft materials are better absorbing noise than hard. It is from this information that you should start.
Next, you need to fix the drywall on the metal frame. Self -tapping screws are used for this. You should responsibly approach this process, since the appearance of cracks in the material will mean reduced sound insulation. As you know, drywall copes well with the sound insulation of the walls, especially when parts of this building material fit tightly to each other.
The joints of the drywall sheets must be glued with a special construction grid, and putty is applied on top of it. It is necessary to ensure that the surface of the wall is perfectly flat.
After that, you can paint the wall or stick wallpaper. It should be noted that this is an inexpensive way of soundproofing the home. Most of all you will need to spend money on drywall, which on average costs 150-200 rubles per sheet.
Noise insulation using decorative panels
If the method with drywall does not move, you can use decorative panels. Today, many manufacturers have a large assortment of such products. Panels can be of various thicknesses, and made from a wide variety of materials. In our case, it is better to abandon wood panels, as they are worst with the soundproofing of the room.
Before starting construction work, you need to understand that the wall decoration with panels requires a perfectly flat wall. Otherwise, it will be necessary to create a crate. The crate itself is a wood frame similar to a metal structure for drywall sheets. Wood bars are attached to the wall with dowels or screws. The design should be reliably located on the wall, as the panels have a decent weight.
The panels are attached to the crate using liquid nails. In addition, part of the material must be attached by the “Ship-Paz” principle.
The main advantage of this sound insulation method is the decorative component, which leaves the drywall and other methods of wall decoration far behind. At the same time, the panels do not guarantee the perfect sound insulation of the dwelling, since this is just an additional layer for the wall. If possible, you can place a soundproofing material in the crate, this will slightly improve the situation.
These panels are very expensive, their cost starts from 1000 rubles per 1 square. m. If the room is small, then this option is quite good.
Shpping of soundproofing material
Now in stores very often you can find rolls with noise -insulating materials. They must be glued on top of vinyl wallpaper. On average, the soundproofing roll will cover 7 square meters. m. walls, which is noticeably more profitable than the past method. Experts in the construction affairs argue that this material reduces the level of extraneous noise by only 60%, so it will be difficult to serious competition for the two past structures to these noise -insulating rolls.
On the other hand, this is a good option if the walls of the dwelling are already doing well with sound isolation.
For gluing noise insulation material, liquid nails are used. In this case, it is also necessary that the wall be flat.
