Soundproofing A Home Theatre Utilizing Mall Loaded Vinyl Or Green Glue

By Author: Kevin Richard
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It is type of DIY for soundproofing. In this contemporary world, taking the family out for dinner and a movie on a Friday night may cost you more than your monthly mortgage payment.

This is why many families are going for their very own home theatre. If you have an empty room or space in your basement, you can have a home theatre.

It used to be the best way to build a home studio or a home theatre within an existing room and then build a room within a room. Although this technique of soundproofing is still quite efficient, it is expensive and eats up much of your wall space in your already haltered theatre room.

A better idea is to work with your current walls by implementing a new layer of drywall to the current walls and ceiling, but implementing a layer of the product known as Green Glue on the new drywall and put it within the new drywall and the current wall. If you do this on all the walls and the ceiling, you will be on your way to an incredible soundproof home theatre. Well if your home theatre is on the second floor, the ceiling now becomes less of a concern and the floors become the main problem. ...
... You can soundproof the floors in different ways depending on what finished floor will be installed. If you are planning to have pad and carpet for the finished floor in the theatre, then a soundproof floor underlay would be in order. These are recycled rubber products that would lie on the top of the wood or the concrete sub floor to prevent the airborne sounds of the home theatre from travelling down to the people below.

Other worries that you may have with your home theatre would be windows and doors. Let us speak about doors for a minute, if you are trying to keep the movie in the home theatre, then a hollow core door will be your worst enemy. Most contemporary bedroom doors are hollow core and do some sort of soundproofing. Your best option would be to go for an acoustic door seal. You may add the seal to the bottom of the door and also a door perimeter seal kit to seal across the door where it closes into the jam. A genuine soundproof door may cost you thousands, with a bit time and mindful planning; you may get the same results at a much lesser cost.

The final things we want to speak about are the windows in the home theatre. If neighbours are an issue, then I would recommend building window plugs. You may also use composite foam to soundproof the windows.

Okay, I think we have covered all the aspects of building your own home theatre. Good luck!