Charlie:
Jenny in Katy … My bedroom and kitchen are next to each other and I’m remodeling the kitchen. How do I sound proof the walls between the rooms? Because the sheetrock is now off and she’s thinking she has a chance to do this. She says, “When I’m sleeping I don’t want to hear cabinets closing.”
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Tom:
Well, you will if the cabinets are on that wall. You can’t soundproof it. You’d have to build a concrete bunker wall. You can reduce it a little bit.
Charlie:
She could add another set of studs, off-set studs sitting on felt. We’re building a studio. I know how to do this.
Tom:
I know but it’s sound reduction, it not soundproof.
Charlie:
Exactly, exactly.
Tom:
If you hear cabinet doors, that’s a tough one to stop. Now, voices, a television, a little bit of music, maybe the machine running, but cabinets is going to be tough. You can dampen it some and that would be stagger your studs and go ahead and use the soundboard on the kitchen side before the sheetrock goes up because that’s what’s going to stop the vibration. That’s a half inch compressed builder board.
Charlie:
You can dampen some of it but not all of it.
Tom:
That’s right.