Soundproofing an apartment in the panel house. Tips

Those who live in the panel house, every day stalkivaetsya with poor sound insulation of the apartment, the neighbors are loud walk, then someone on the 5 th floor of a drill running. And all desire to create one is presented soundproof his apartment. We'll give some tips on how to do it. Today, there are a number spetsialnyhmaterialov and technologies designed to increase the soundproofing apartment. This device is a floating floor design, installation soundproof ceiling, construction of additional soundproofing wall coverings with the use of sound insulation fasteners. All of these methods zvukoizolyatsiiobladayut high efficiency, but require a fairly large financial costs for special materials and installation work. But do not always have the time and finansynadorogostoyaschy repair, you can often get by without it, simply by eliminating some shortcomings of builders. There are enough effective measures that can be applied in practice on their own. Despite the apparent simplicity of the following recommendations, their implementation can significantly improve the acoustic comfort in the ordinary residential flat panel house. 1. Soundproofing Socket socket mounted on the wall mezhkvartirnoy very often is one of the most probable pathways of noise from neighbors. This is easily seen by simply attaching to her ear (just try to get you no electric shock). The fact that in certain concrete wall plates at the stage of production include through holes for the installation electroaccessories. Then the builders are easy to install sockets in two adjacent apartments, leaving the pass-through channel through which noise can be almost free fall into your apartment. Tip: Remove the power outlet and mounting box, adhering to the rules on electrical safety. It is possible that you will see the bottom of the mounting box neighbor's outlet. Put in the hole "puck" of dense mineral wool, asbestos cloth or cardboard basalt. Then seal the hole plaster or cement mortar, so that left room for your outlet. For the production of this operation is recommended to use the services of a qualified electrician. Note: Do not use for sealing the hole assembly foam without subsequent plaster. Polyurethane foam is not soundproof material and, moreover, has a high flammability. 2. Soundproofing mounting electrical boxes Mounting box for connecting electric cables are usually located near the ceiling in the central part mezhkvartirnyh walls. Often they are hidden under the wallpaper, but they are easy to detect "method prostukivaniya. Very often, mounting boxes installed in the through holes in the walls and closed with thin plastic covers. Tip: Sound mounting boxes is recommended by analogy with electrical power, but always with the assistance of a qualified electrician. It is not recommended to independently produce twisting of electrical cables. 3. Isolation of riser systems of heating and water supply pipelines Risers heating and water supply, according to building codes, should be routed through the floor decks with Vibration isolated shells. To do this, the overlap be filled with a metal pipe larger than the diameter of the riser. The gap between the two tubes should be filled with non-combustible absorbent materials and sealed netverdeyuschim sealant. In practice, it often fails. Builders, or not close up the gap in the sleeve with mineral wool, or simply do not use cartridges, closing up tower right in the floor with cement mortar. After many years of operation between the pipe riser and floor slabs must appear gap. The sound from the neighbors above and below can be easily penetrate into your apartment through cracks and leaks. In some cases, through these cracks penetrate and unwanted odors. Tip: If risers routed through the ceiling in the pocket, it is recommended to seal the gap between the sleeve and the riser heat-resistant silicone sealant. If the tower is laid directly through the ceiling, around the pipe to clear away and remove the damaged layer of cement mortar as deep as possible (avoiding the penetration into the adjoining apartment.) Then, the base pipe is recommended to wrap soundproof material (eg, with glass "Vibrostek or asbestos cloth) and to cement the damaged area of ??gender and / or ceiling. Surplus insulating material are cut and seam sealed with silicone sealant. 4. Sound insulation of joints between the floor and walls in the ground floor to the ceiling junction walls often appear deep fissures. This is due to deficient construction joints and poor quality of the leveling floor screeds. Formed over time cracks and cavities may serve as a good conductor of sound from a neighboring apartment. Tip: Remove the baseboards around the perimeter of the room. If there is a possibility, using a chisel and a hammer, do the walls in the floor of the seam width of 30-50 mm at the depth of the screed. Fill the seam with fresh cement-sand mortar. After drying cement mixture netverdeyuschim treat joint silicone sealant. If the apartment is laid parquet and partial dismantling of ties is not possible, then just carefully fill expansion joint between the wall and the edge of the parquet floor with silicone sealant. Then fasten the skirting boards in place. 5. Sound insulation of joints between panels of wall-wall and wall / ceiling long-term use of panel houses, usually leads to the formation of deformation cracks between the concrete slabs of walls and ceilings. These cracks are "life companion" of virtually all tenants of prefabricated houses. Very often they are hidden behind the wallpaper and do not violate the appearance of the residential apartments. Nevertheless, these cracks can serve as a conduit for the penetration of noise from a neighboring apartment. Tip: Remove the old wallpaper. Is embroidered with the joints between concrete panels. Fill voids and cavities of gypsum plaster or cement mortar. After drying putty promazhte all joints are "wall-wall and wall / ceiling acrylic sealant. After removal of excess acrylic sealant can be done painting or pasting the room with new wallpaper. 6. Soundproofing windows in the apartment can only pronikatne street traffic noise, but the sound of the music center of a neighboring apartment. Replacement of old wooden windows plastic windows designs may resolve this problem, but often a simple upgrade of the old windows leads to even better results. It should be noted that often after the dismantling of old wooden windows and the installation of metal, some sounds from the Intra-sources become more audible. This is due to the disappearance of the effect of masking these sounds, street noise. Tip: To increase the insulation of old windows is recommended to replace the existing glass thickness of 4mm thicker, for example, 5 or 6 mm. Before installation of the new glass, abundantly promazhte installation location sash around the perimeter of the transparent neutral silicone sealant. Firmly push the glass into silicone "cushion" in the leaf. Then mount the glazing beads and remove any excess silicone. In each window sash around the contour of the porch, fasten a rubber gasket having a cross section of the letter "D". Today in hardware stores is a fairly wide range of different low-cost seals. If the window after sealing the vestibule is difficult to close, you should refer to services carpenter. All of these tips are effective, if the sash windows in the old strongly deformed by time. If you do decide to buy plastic windows, remember that the triple-pane windows, as a rule, do not provide higher insulation than single-chamber double-glazed windows similar to the width and the same total thickness of glass. Note: Do not align window slopes with sheets of drywall. Resonance phenomena in air cavities can significantly reduce the sound insulation of windows. It is best to finish slopes using a cement-sand plaster. 7. Soundproofing doors Unfortunately, the increase in sound insulation door will not be able to reduce the noise from the movement of the elevator cabs or elevator of the winch (these noises are distributed to building structures), but will help get rid of noise from a neighboring apartment, the noise of closing elevator doors, the rattle of heels on the stairs other household noises. Tip: Entry doors to the apartment is recommended that you as a vestibule. The external door should have a burglar properties, and the inner door can be decorative. To ensure high sound insulation is necessary to door in the closed position had no cracks and leaks in the fitting in the leaf to the box. To this end, door frames shall be required threshold and seals around the porch. As the strip is best to use shaped rubber seals that are cut in the form of letter "D". The difference in sound insulation door with a threshold, and without it can reach 10-15 dB. Very often, the mounting gap between the door frame and the doorway filled with builders foam, and through it the sound easily penetrates into the apartment of a common corridor. In this case, you must remove the mounting foam and fill the gap and assemble all the voids in the box with cement mortar. After drying cement mixture space contiguity doorframe to the wall structure must be carefully sealed with silicone sealant to prevent future strain cracks. 8. What not to do very often recommend builders to increase the insulation glued to walls or ceilings foam sheet and then plastered them. In fact, this "sound-proof construction" does not increase, but in most cases even reduces (!!!) soundproofing fence. This is due to resonance phenomena in the construction described in the speech frequencies. For example, if a liner mounted on both sides of the heavy concrete wall, the decline in insulation can reach values ??of 10-15 dB! It should be noted that the same pitiable result may lead to the application of this design instead of foam materials such as foam, penopolipropilen, cork, etc. Should not be trusted advice, which is secured on the surface of the walls or ceiling of certain "Superefficient" soundproof material is not thicker than 5.10 mm. Should not trust councils who provide installation soundproof structures with a total thickness no more than 10-20 mm. The main factor that revealing such advice is the existence of the problem of sound insulation. If in nature there are thin insulating materials, the problem of protection from the noise would be decided at the design stage of buildings and would only be reduced to the selection of looks and price of such materials. In fact, the minimum thickness of soundproof construction, the effect of which would be an obvious and tangible, is no less than 40-50 mm. We hope that the above suggestions will help improve the comfort of living in prefabricated homes without considerable financial investment.