Sound proofing

[CharlieRam]

I moved to northern Tasmania where I can afford to live in a house in the middle of 2 acres of land with no other dwellings within about 100 metres. Hopefully someone else can come up with a more helpful suggestion!

Kit

Hmmm seems a little extreme

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[Kitwn]

Hmmm seems a little extreme

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You might be right but it was a genuine consideration when choosing a house to buy. Being on a sloped plot with no hope of further subdivision, it cost no more than a similar size house at the end of a cul-de-sac on a new housing estate, which we did seriously consider. No risk of having to listen to 5 lot's of next-door's wailing kids either! Quite a long way from where you are now though.

I did see a video which tested various sound damping methods for a home recording studio and found that old towels, mounted several layers thick in wooden frames, were more effective than expensive 'acoustic' foam. I'm not sure a towel-lined log cabin is very practical but it shows that expensive, sold-for-purpose stuff isn't necessarily the right answer.

I've just done a you tube search on sound proofing with towels. There quite a few of them, all relating to deadening the echo for sound recording but it may help give you some ideas to try. This is the original one I watched which includes some reasonably scientific testing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABvTWSxOes



Kit