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I've been turning my detatched garage into a proper man space/gym/will be bike workshop etc. Painted it all, sealed floor etc, power and lighting just installed, UPVC personnel side door to access from the garden. Fantastic!
But, the garage is at the bottom of our garden, quite close to our neighbour's house. I plan to buy a concept 2 rower (they're quite noisy), will zwift/turbo through winter and also generally make some noise with my music in the winter evenings.
Obviously most of the sound is let out through the up/over garage door. I'm going to add a weather strip around it to close up gaps anyway.
Anybody bothered/have suggestions for adding somthing to the back on the door to deaden sound down?
Admit it, it's a sex dungeon.
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Simple answer to keeping the noise down is a ball-gag.
That would just ruin my newly painted walls!!
Adding mass to the door will stop it reverberating. Like the sticky back rubber stuff you find on the inside of car panels. Adding depth to the door with absorbant material will prevent some sound escaping through the door.
But its basically a rectangular pieces with a gap all round* sound will leak.
*You can't really constuct a jam round an up and over due to the daft way it close.
If water can get through sound can get through. So you need to block as much as possible.
A really heavy curtain floor to ceiling will probably be as goid as anything. Which you can't do because of the track.
In summary. New garage needed.
That would just ruin my newly painted walls!!
That's why you hang the plastic sheeting, duh. Sheesh, have you never dismembered a corpse before? Do we have to explain everything?
Bloody amateurs
Sheesh, have you never dismembered a corpse before?
Surely the full dexter approach is needed if you intend to dice them up while the blood is still flowing.
Car audio or campervan conversion sound deadening stuff first - you don't need to cover all of the door, on vans you can reduce noise a lot just with smaller patches in the middle of panels. Will stop a lot of the boominess and also make it much quieter opening and closing the door.
Then polystyrene type insulation foam over the door, stuck on with expanding foam (and use more to fill any gaps) - eg
Surely the full dexter approach is needed if you intend to dice them up while the blood is still flowing.
Well, yeah, obvs, but I assumed we'd start with the basics
If you have space on either side of the door and assuming your up and over door doesn’t have a track then Joshvegas’ curtain idea would seem fairly simple. There are plenty of ceiling mounted curtain tracks available.
Alternatively do you need the garage door and what is your budget? The door could be replaced with a stud wall with an external face of cement board and render if you could have a UPVC and glass window / door made to fill the gap and keep the option to revert to a conventional garage in the future.
Bluetooth headphones to keep the music down?
I used that cheap flashband stuff on my old van to reduce the noise inside and it worked very well. I'm about to do the same again with my Tranny. You just need to add a bit of mass to stop those big panels from booming like a drum. I'm tempted to try it on my own garage door but haven't gotten that far yet.
The door has an annoying track configuration, so curtain won't work. No to headphones! Plus I like to sing whilst I'm "working out". I'll look at the polystyrene approach.
Screw the door to the walls in it's current position. Stash the tracks for now and brick up the entrance with Celcon blocks. An hour with a sledgehammer can reverse the prcess if you ever need to.
You could conduit/box in the door mechanisms, put hardboard on the back and then fill the void with expanding polyerethane foam.
Then you'd just need to get a good seal around the whole door e.g. using batting and draft excluder strips.
An alternative option is to make your own rower and make it a quiet one https://openergo.webs.com/
Like when you build yourself in...
Its a goid question though. Do you need the door?
Those rowers are not particularly noisy.