r/soundproof

So I'll summarize why I need this. I can't afford to move out of my parents house and I need to hide my interests from them. My controlling dad would freak out if he knew some of the things I (an adult) was doing or listening to. I get paranoid that my family can hear me, so I have my speaker on a quieter volume than I'd like, and whenever I'm doing a ritual I talk at a voice level somewhere in between a whisper and a normal inside voice level. I want to feel so sure that my parents can't hear me.

The specific sounds I need to block out are:

• Talking at a normal inside voice level

• Ringing my little high pitched singing bowl

• Playing my hand drums

• Listening to music through my speaker

• watching TV

My parents en suite bathroom shares a wall with my bedroom. That wall is a chalkboard wall, so I want most of that usable as a chalkboard. I don't mind framing a big rectangle of it with some sort of soundproofing. The rest of my walls are mostly covered with posters, pictures, art, etc that I've added over the years. I am thinking about removing some things that I don't care about anymore and moving some of the other stuff around to create big blank spaces on my walls where I can sound proof. My door has a gap at the bottom, so I put a door draft stopper to block the gap. I'm thinking of moving some things from my door to make a blank space on it for soundproofing.

So how can I DIY some sound proofing for my room?

Ciao, come posso isolare una stanza per non far sentire i rumori ai vicini di casa?
Sarebbe ottimo se avresti idee per isolare anche solo il soffitto, o un accrocchio per non isolare tutta la stanza ma solo lo spazio in cui staremmo a fare le nostre cose. Non voglio ristrutturare o fare modifiche definitive alla stanza.

We have a detached 19x19 garage that is about 15ft away from our main living area and about 20-25ft away from any walls from our neighbors.

The garage has a concrete floor and a single layer of drywall up in its walls. The ceiling is currently open, and we have a whirlybird exhaust vent fan at the top and several soffit intake vents. We have a standard metal 2 car garage rolling door.

We will be closing off the ceiling and putting in insulation so the soffit vents and exhaust vents will be closed off from the main garage area. The existing walls however are not insulated, so at the end of it all only the ceiling will have insulation.

Also worth noting we will also be putting in a minisplit AC so hopefully that’s enough for in room ventilation.

I know actual soundproofing will be very very expensive and hard to do, but my goal is to simply reduce the sound as much as I can so that it is not noticeable or barely noticeable to my main home and my neighbors when they are inside their homes. I’m hoping that treating our house exterior garage will make the traveling sound bearable.

What are some ways to achieve this? Some ideas I had were:

- add another layer of 5/8 drywall directly ontop of the existing 5/8 drywall.

- attach the ceiling drywall to hat channels instead of directly onto joist

- use accoustic caulk to seal all corners of the room

- change our the garage door seal with a fresh new rubber garage door gasket

- put insulation panels in the empty space of the garage door

- put the drum set on a platform? Will this do anything?

I’m trying to avoid building the room within a room thing and just treat the space so that it’s tolerable when standing 20ft away from the garage when everything is closed.

Any thoughts or tips appreciated.

Hi all, I bought a house last year and I am massively regretting it! Whilst I accepted that I would be living on a main road, I just can’t believe the amount of noise which comes from HGV’s specifically. Car noise and traffic doesn’t bother me but this can shake the house and makes such awful rattling noises! Has anyone in a similar boat installed acoustic glass and found this has been an improvement? Ultimately I am going to have to look to move which is such a shame as I am in love with the house but this is just making it unbearable :(

For context this sound is at 12:30am and this sound is what I hear near enough 24 hours a day!