(All of you recording studio guys can
ignore this passage - you should know the differences).
Your walls are probably a 45 STC value now, or better.
Unless you have a truly extreme noise situation that will
be enough. However, your windows are almost certainly less
than 31 STC and they are the source of your noise problem.
Only AFTER your windows are as quiet as your walls, should
you seriously consider installing additional soundproofing.
A barking dog, standard residential traffic, freeways
over ¼ mile away, trains ½ mile away, rolling
boom box cars, and Harley Davidson motorcycles are usually
NOT what we refer to as extreme. To some they may be, but
stopping the window noise is still the first action you
should take. Serious causes of noise are freeways, trains,
busy four lane streets, trucking routes, bus routes and
the dog kennels of the world.
Try soundproofing the windows
FIRST, and if for some reason you find it's not enough,
you can still soundproof the
walls.
Realize we are offering this “course” as free advice
and it should be taken as such. We find these facts to be true, but
offer you only the warranty of what you paid to us for this course (nothing).
Hopefully this means we offered good advice, since we are not selling you
soundproofing materials. We will be or have added some links to some
soundproofing material companies that offer noise
abatement and noise reduction material and products, companies we believe to be ethical
and good at what they do.
Thank you for studying "Introduction
to Soundproofing - Course 101" with us.
For more resources click on soundproofing
resources.
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