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Real Estate Soundproofing: How Soundproofing Can Increase Property Value and Tenant Satisfaction
Real estate soundproofing helps property owners, developers, and managers reduce noise complaints, improve tenant satisfaction, and protect long-term property value through smarter acoustic upgrades.
How Many Acoustic Panels Do I Need for My Space?
Wondering how many acoustic panels you really need? It depends on your room’s size, shape, materials, and purpose. From conference rooms to home studios, this guide explains how to calculate acoustic panel coverage, why placement matters, and how to strike the right balance between absorption and natural sound.
How to Soundproof Stairs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Reducing Stairway Noise
If you’ve ever been woken up by heavy footsteps pounding up the stairs or annoyed by squeaks or rumbles echoing through a stairwell, you already know how much stair noise can disrupt daily life. Stairs are often overlooked when people think about soundproofing, but they can be one of the biggest weak points in a […]
The Ultimate Guide to Reducing AC and HVAC Noise: Quieting Condensers and Compressors
As the weather heats up, and summer gets into full swing, we are getting more and more calls as well as E-mails about air conditioning compressors bothering home owners as well as neighbors. The problem can be fixed fairly easily and inexpensively, but either way, it needs to be done correctly […]
Noisy Neighbors: Reduce Noise in Apartment Buildings
Updated March 27, 2024 While the essence of community is cooperating and coexisting with neighbors, that can be difficult when they’re constantly making noise. Over half of all Americans are bothered by their neighbors’ noise issues multiple times per year, while over a third deal with such annoyances on a monthly basis.1 In apartment complexes […]
How to Reduce Echo in an Office
Large offices are ideal for providing businesses with ample meeting spaces and building a stronger sense of community among coworkers. Unfortunately, more space can also lead to more echo. Work in an office already comes with its own challenges to navigate. Added distractions, such as heightened noise and echo, can create big headaches for employees. […]
The Best Approach to Soundproofing a Basement Ceiling
Most of us like the sound of adding soundproofing to our interior spaces. It allows us to immerse ourselves in our music and movies without bothering others. It also works the other way around. When we are binging our favorite shows, few things are more annoying than neighborhood noise creeping in. Adding soundproofing materials and […]
Quieting an Apartment
“I live in an apartment that occupies the half of the bottom floor of an owner occupied home. My bedroom is directly below my landlord’s and despite the six inches of concrete between our spaces, the ability for noise to travel from up to down is amazing […]
Child’s Bedroom Soundproofing
“We built an addition to our home and our master bedroom shares a wall with our youngest son’s bedroom. Unfortunately, any noise in our room is heard in his room. Talking, TV (even low volume), listening to radio – it is all heard in the next room which keeps him awake (or wakes him up) and provides us with no privacy. Do you have any solutions, short of ripping out the wall and replacing it, to put on the wall to stop the sound?” There are a few things to consider, but fixing the problem is not an impossible task. We receive a lot of inquiries from people who, of course, want an easy and simple solution that will not create a big mess. Occasionally this is a possibility, but to get the job done correctly, some construction is almost always involved. Let’s take this one step at a time […]
Quieting My Son’s Drum Room?
“We are considering some level of soundproofing for our son’s bedroom. He plays the drums, and our house is not large, so we would greatly benefit from something that would help block/absorb some of the sound. Can you help with this?” In order to block sound, one needs to do one of two things. First would be to build a room within a room so that the sheet rock of the drum room does not have any hard surface contact with the sheet rock on the adjacent rooms […]
