Soundproofing a Home Theater Green Glue or Mass Loaded Vinyl
It is nice to "do it yourself kind of business" like soundproofing. In today's world taking the family on a Friday evening for dinner and a movie could be costing you more than your monthly mortgage payment. Therefore, many families are opting for their very own home theater. If you have a room or an empty spot in your basement or attic, you have a potential Home Theater.
It used to be that the best way to build a home theater or> Home studio was to construct new wall within the existing space and construct what we call a "room within a room". Although this method of soundproofing is still quite effective, it is expensive and consumes a lot of wall space in your already cramped theater room.
A better suggestion is to work with your existing walls by applying a new layer of drywall to existing walls and ceiling, but applying a layer of a product called Green Glue on the new drywall and sandwich it between theexisting wall and the new drywall. If you do this to all the walls and ceiling, you are well on your way to a great soundproof home theater. Well, if your home theater is on the second floor, the ceiling is now less of a problem and now the floors are increasingly becoming problem. Floors can be in many different ways depending on what the finished floor will be installed to be soundproofed. If you plan to carpet and upholstery for the finished floor in your theater, then asoundproof floor underlay would be in order. Something like American Impactless soundproof floor underlay or American Impact Standard is based. These are both recycled rubber products that are on top of the wood or concrete sub floor to the air would stop sounds of home theater from the trip up to the people below.
The Impactless is a less dense rubber underlay and would be ideal for under carpet and upholstery. The American Impact Standard would also be under the effectiveCarpet and pad, but is suitable for hardwood and ceramic tile floors because of their sheer mass.
Other concerns that you might have with your home theater doors and windows. Let's talk about doors for a minute if you try to keep the film in the cinema, then a hollow door could be your worst enemy. Most modern bedroom doors are hollow core and very little in the way is soundproof. It would be best, Home Depot and Lowe's and goPurchase a solid core MDF or solid wood door. You can ad an automatic drop down transom seal to the bottom of the door and a door perimeter seal kit, seal closes at the door, where it jams in the. A real soundproof door could cost thousands, with a little time and careful planning, you can get the same results, 1 / 4 the cost.
The last thing we need to talk about the windows in your home theater. If neighbors are a concern, then I would suggest building windowPlugs with 2 "America Mat Closed cell vinyl nitrile foam mat. For example, if you had your windows 3 'X 3', would you cut the foam to 3'1" X 3 "1" so that the window of the plug – and extra 1 / 2 "around him the entire circumference. This additional 1 / 2" will help the window plug firmly into the window frame to keep much like a cork in the bottle. If the window 4 or more on each dimension, it is proposed that the window plug be glued to a supporter on board, something like wood paneling or Luaan. This woodPlates can be found at home Depot or Lowe's.
Well, I think we have covered every aspect of building your own home theater, next time we will discuss acoustical treatments for your theater, until then, Dr. Bob …. Out!
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