Soundproofing a door

oh for fucks sake

Inside:

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Outside:

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that was so scary, all those links

i feel your pain, i have a similar situation over here. suggestions welcome

Yeah, also interested in this. I work the graveyard shift full time, so it's nearly impossible outside a narrow window of a few hours each day, into which I also need to cram my socializing, errands, any task that might require a hammer, drill, dremel, etc.

+ I'm second story, right above someone else's bedroom...how do I soundproof my floor??

dooodz?

Sound proofing foam that is used in professional recording booths (also used as speaker covers). For the floor, layer of cork or indoor/outdoor carpet (has a rubber insulating backing and is pretty cheap). Old fashioned shag carpeting is great, but not an attractive solution. It is a terrific sound insulator, inexpensive but not very pretty. :(

You can bulk it out by building a thick wood frame onto the door (4x2 if possible), filling the resultant cavity with the densest lagging they have at your local DIY superstore and attaching MDF to the front of the frame - voila, a thicker door. You could try sealing the doorframe with rubber (or foam rubber) to make it more airtight. Hmm, difficult to describe this without diagrams. Or you could always buy a new, thicker door and cut it down to size I guess. Might not be good enough though.

Try searching google for online studio / recording forums, I know they exist and they'll have loads of info from professionals. Probably a better bet than ilx to be honest.

how do I soundproof my floor??

The most effective method is probably to take the floor up and fill the downstairs ceiling cavity with the above mentioned lagging (or soundproofing rockwool type stuff, but that's stupidly expensive). Maybe try shoving a shitty cheap but thick carpet down first to see if it makes any difference before you commit to spending money. That's the trouble with soundproofing, you never know how effective it'll be until you try, and then it's often too late (as I found to my cost a few years ago when building a studio, hmm).

fuck soundproofing a door

Fuck soundproofing anything. It's easier to go somewhere else and be noisy there, on the whole.

I can tell you, from personal experience, that nailing two blankets around the doorframe doesn't do all that much.

Except make the door difficult to get through...

I shared a house with a dude...century old, insanely shitty house. The toilet went at a 45º angle when you sat on it, no weatherproofing, blah blah blah. He had a big room and I had a v v modestly sized room that he rented to me at a highly competitive rate ($175/month!). The problem was the two rooms were connected, on the sides, by a door that could've been made from balsa wood for all I know. He could hear me yell in my sleep (I do that), I could hear him fuck-ing. So my solution was, yeah, shove some pillows next to the door & hold them in place by nailing two thick, fleece blankets over them. It did NOTHING! But, point: it was a door we never used. (My bed was up against it.)

Thinking back, he may have heard me fuck-ing too. I mean I turned up the Chameleons UK or whatevs we were rocking way loud, but I am just a loud person. Poor both of us.

I at least tried to "looked at etchings" with my man when he wasn't home; he'd bring home waitresses at 1 a.m. who would say "I love you! I love you!" during, and he's just grumble, "I KNOW."

It got to be annoying – we couldn't go to breakfast anywhere in town eventually, bcz he'd fucked & broken waitresses' hearts from every restaurant. "Main Street Cafe? No, that place is just full of whores."

Also, Rabies, I feel you on the graveyard shift front. It is crazy making. And I'm sorry you have difficulty fitting in your apparent hobby of etching in emu eggs with your dremel tool.

http://www.emuszine.com/Egg%20Contest%20Archives/images/Gary%20Gunn%20Wolf1.jpg

The world is too long with eggs, late and soon. ;_;

You could also try sleeping with earplugs in.