Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Temporary Walls for Your Home Office
Temporary walls are the perfect solution to help you work in peace at home.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Temporary Walls Also Offer Soundproofing
If you live in NYC, then you know how hard it is to keep noise out of your apartment. As one of the busiest cities in the world, NYC boasts some of the highest vehicle traffic and train noise. That isn't even counting potentially noisy neighbors.
There's no question that the wide variety of entertainment and culture available at all hours make NYC a wonderful place to live. New Yorkers tend to enjoy the liveliness of the street; but only when they're on the street! When you go home, you want it to be a place where you can find refuge from the noise and frenetic activity of the city and relax. Street noise belongs on the street, not in your home!
Like many New Yorkers, you've probably considered soundproofing walls in your home before. Will soundproofing walls in NYC really help to drown out the noise from outside? It can, but there are right and wrong ways to go and peace and quiet can come at a high price. You can hire a contractor who is a specialist in soundproofing walls, floors and even HVAC systems, but this is very expensive and as such is an option which most New Yorkers cant afford.
A common misconception about soundproofing walls is that putting up egg cartons, Styrofoam or carpeting can deaden the noise from the street or from neighbors. As it happens, these materials are largely ineffective and worse still, they look horrible! Heavy fabric and acoustic foam can provide a little more soundproofing, but these are still less than attractive and the small amount of noise they dampen is not worth living with the way they look on your walls.
A lot of people simply don't understand soundproofing and assume that covering their walls will be effective. In fact, you'll get better results by putting down rugs and acquiring heavy pieces of furniture such as easy chairs and sofas than you will from covering your walls with egg cartons. This wont completely shut out those noisy neighbors, but it will help.
Soundproofing walls will always be tough. Unless you can get inside your walls and add insulation or other soundproofing materials, your only real solution is to dampen the sound with some sort of professional soundproofing material like soft sound acoustic panels. You can paint or decorate these and it won't look as bad as carpet or egg crates.
For windows you have a couple of options. If you cannot afford to buy new double-paned windows or windows with an acrylic frame, then you can buy sound dampening drapes or even window plugs. These plugs are made out of soundproofing material and are cut to fit the exact shape of your window. You just plug them in when you no longer want to hear traffic.
Before you go insane living next to a noisy neighbor, you should consider placing soundproofing walls in your apartment. Even if your lease does not allow permanent remodeling, you can place special temporary walls that serve the same purpose without causing any damage to your current walls.
There's no question that the wide variety of entertainment and culture available at all hours make NYC a wonderful place to live. New Yorkers tend to enjoy the liveliness of the street; but only when they're on the street! When you go home, you want it to be a place where you can find refuge from the noise and frenetic activity of the city and relax. Street noise belongs on the street, not in your home!
Like many New Yorkers, you've probably considered soundproofing walls in your home before. Will soundproofing walls in NYC really help to drown out the noise from outside? It can, but there are right and wrong ways to go and peace and quiet can come at a high price. You can hire a contractor who is a specialist in soundproofing walls, floors and even HVAC systems, but this is very expensive and as such is an option which most New Yorkers cant afford.
A common misconception about soundproofing walls is that putting up egg cartons, Styrofoam or carpeting can deaden the noise from the street or from neighbors. As it happens, these materials are largely ineffective and worse still, they look horrible! Heavy fabric and acoustic foam can provide a little more soundproofing, but these are still less than attractive and the small amount of noise they dampen is not worth living with the way they look on your walls.
A lot of people simply don't understand soundproofing and assume that covering their walls will be effective. In fact, you'll get better results by putting down rugs and acquiring heavy pieces of furniture such as easy chairs and sofas than you will from covering your walls with egg cartons. This wont completely shut out those noisy neighbors, but it will help.
Soundproofing walls will always be tough. Unless you can get inside your walls and add insulation or other soundproofing materials, your only real solution is to dampen the sound with some sort of professional soundproofing material like soft sound acoustic panels. You can paint or decorate these and it won't look as bad as carpet or egg crates.
For windows you have a couple of options. If you cannot afford to buy new double-paned windows or windows with an acrylic frame, then you can buy sound dampening drapes or even window plugs. These plugs are made out of soundproofing material and are cut to fit the exact shape of your window. You just plug them in when you no longer want to hear traffic.
Before you go insane living next to a noisy neighbor, you should consider placing soundproofing walls in your apartment. Even if your lease does not allow permanent remodeling, you can place special temporary walls that serve the same purpose without causing any damage to your current walls.
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