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Child’s Bedroom Soundproofing
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But fear not - we have more information for you to help make the choices that will keep your baby’s surroundings peaceful and calm.
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.
Sound is similar to water when getting in/out of spaces. Both water and sound are going to follow the path of least resistance. A one-percent air gap around the door can leak thirty percent of the sound from one side of the door to the other. A one-quarter inch gap at the bottom of the door will leak a very significant amount of sound into your son's room.
This issue can be fixed by installing our door seal kits. These kits are very easy to install onto most doors. If you have carpet in the doorway, you will need to install a threshold which you can get at any home supply center. The seal will need a hard surface to seal onto. The standard kit (17/32" wide) will cost approximately $247.00 which includes the automatic door bottom as well as the jamb seal for the sides and top of the door frame. The heavy-duty kit (7/8" thick) will cost approximately $470.00 and simply provides a better seal than the standard kit.
Another approach is with a layer of Barrier Decoupler on the common wall - under a "new" layer of sheetrock. This product will increase the amount of density and mass between the two spaces. The more mass you introduce between a noise source and a receiver, the weaker the sound is when it gets from one side of the barrier to the other. This installation would also involve re-doing the sheetrock on one side of the room - similar to the RSIC-1 Clips, but would be less effective.
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?HOW NOISE COULD AFFECT YOUR CHILD We have all been there: a quiet nursery; a dozing infant, and then suddenly, a baby is woken up by some noisy disruption or another. It’s heartbreaking to hear the cry of a suddenly fussy baby, and even worse to see their parents tasked with the impossible job of getting their baby slumbering again. However, the effects of noise can be even more detrimental than a fussy fit. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is a menagerie of consequences to noise pollution, especially in children. These issues can range from physical problems to cognitive and psychological problems. Noise pollution can be responsible for a noise-induced threshold shift (a shift in the range of your child’s ability to hear), impaired cognition, stress hormone, sleep disturbance, and effects on reading, concentration, memory, and attention.