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Noisy neighbours, kids, impact noise etc
So looking to get some sound insulation put in. It's a 1950s house. Contractor is confident it will work, but I've heard mixed reports as to whether sound insulation is helpful for impact noise.
Just interested to hear any examples before spending the cash.
What kind of impacts? 😯
Door slamming, slamming cupboards, chest of drawers, etc.
Don't mind it during the day but it gets a bit tiring at 6am every morning.
The "friendly word" has been tried to no avail.
Yes it does work amazing well. You might have more of a transfer problem though than sound. If you slam a door and your shared wall transfers the sound, you need to isolate that walk from your space. What that means is lining your shared walk but with isolation . Easy to do if you think carefully about it.
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Thanks Chris, good to know.
Without decoupling the masses (walls) involved, and putting a suitable air gap between them, there's only so much you can do. You can add more mass (insulation) to the adjoining/dividing masses to reduce vibrations - it'll also reduce some of the higher-end reflections - but the better solution is to reduce the impact at source by deadening it with rubber seals/stops. Quite how you approach your neighbour with that is another question all together...