What is the best heat and sound insulator out there?
We are renovating and would like to insulate for both heat retention and sound proofing reasons. What is the best product out there? Thanks,
We are renovating and would like to insulate for both heat retention and sound proofing reasons. What is the best product out there?
Thanks,
Thanks, this was very helpful.
Search soundproofing on this forum and you will get some good recommendations. There have also been 2 articles in the NYT on this topic in the last 1.5 years.. We had a noisy neighbor too but actually had luck speaking with the landlord and asking them to cut the noise by 10 during the week and midnight on the weekends….Good luck
There is a new product called quiet rock one sheet is the sound reducing qyality of 7 sheets of sheetrock.It also comes in a fire rated x.
I’m not insane, PHfamily and neither were any of my comments. My tone wasn’t even rude, like yours is. This discussion has come up many times and people always respond the same. Heat insulation on party walls is optional and not done very often. If you want to pour your money into that, go ahead. As for insulating exterior walls, of course you do that. Everybody does. But you didn’t specifiy exterior walls. You were talking about party walls. As for noise, even with some insulation, there’s no escape from noise when you have party walls. If you were to totally soundproof your party walls you would lose a foot of house width on each side. No exaggeration. Ask an expert. I accept there’s always some level of neighbor-noise in NYC. So I seem to be the one who is more assimilated to NYC, as it turns out.
Wow 11:19, why so agressive? As a life long Brooklyn resident I can safely say that perhaps you moved to the wrong place.
We are looking to insulate sound from room to room, floor creaks, and insulate sound from one party wall becasue their blaring bass music at all hours of the day and night keeps us from sleeping. Regardless, suggesting that homeowners shouldn’t insulate it crazy. How about all of the haet that is lost on the front and garden walls?
Next time try offering useful information and try registering so that your insane comments can be tracked.
But heat comes in FROM your neighbors homes too, so it’s not really a problem. Besides, if your heat went out in Winter while you were away for a weekend, and you didn’t have radiant heat from your neighbors’ houses like one normally would have, your pipes would burst. Not fun. Look at sharing heat as a good thing. If you want to live on an island with no contact or sharing with others, you moved to the wrong place.
No one product does both things. They are completely different.