Hi all, While installing a new plumbing pipe in the party wall, our neighbor made a substantial hole in our wall. We were devastated to see the damage to our home but the good news is that he will make the repairs and, we hope, all will be amicably resolved. Meanwhile we can now hear EVERYTHING on his side of the wall and he presumably can hear us. The adjacent rooms, btw, are our bedroom and his bathroom. He has closed up his side while ours is still open. We can actually see the back of the pipe he installed because our bricks were pushed out of place. Obviously the bricks will be reset and the wall will be replastered. But I have always understood that when a major barrier is broken\/changed within or between houses (floors, walls etc), the sound proofing is lost. How do we recreate it? What additional steps beyond the repair I described above will be necessary? Any extra precautionary steps we should be taking? I’m very concerned that we could have a structurally and aesthetically sound repair but one that would nevertheless be compromised if we don’t address the sound issue as an integral part of the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi all, While installing a new plumbing pipe in the party wall, our neighbor made a substantial hole in our wall. We were devastated to see the damage to our home but the good news is that he will make the repairs and, we hope, all will be amicably resolved. Meanwhile we can now hear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-25038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-masonry"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/10\/hole-in-the-wal\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Hole in the wall + noise issues = need yr repair advice","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/10\/hole-in-the-wal\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/10\/hole-in-the-wal\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Masonry","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NeoGrec"}],"creator":["NeoGrec"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2008-10-08T14:26:47Z","datePublished":"2008-10-08T14:26:47Z","dateModified":"2008-10-08T14:26:47Z"},"rendered":"