Hello All,
I have two questions:
1. I recently completed a home re-insulation project, and have some of the R38 insulation (Certainteed) left over. I wondered whether the R38 could be useful treating the front wall of my basement Home Theater, which is basically an area of an otherwise open basement plan. The front wall of the HT area (12' wide x 7 ceiling ht.) is a simple framed single layer drywall, which separates my basement HT area from the adjoining Utility room, so it can easily be accessed for the "treatment". My obvious interest is to minimize both sound leakage from the HT area as well as minimize noise coming from the Utility room.
I recognize that soundproofing or sound isolation for my HT area is beyond my means, so I am exploring simple, seemingly common sense and inexpensive approaches.
2. In another discussion thread, I got very helpful suggestions on treating the ceiling. I subsequently found a pieces of foam carpet padding in my attic, and thought it might help dampen sound transmission via the tin ductwork, so I used it wrap as much of the ducts as possible. Before I invest in more of the padding, is this worth even the effort and $100 or so of padding I may need?
3. Finally, for an open basement plan, do I need to only focus on the air ducts in the immediate HT area or do I need to cover every linear foot of duct in the entire basement?
Thank you.
I have two questions:
1. I recently completed a home re-insulation project, and have some of the R38 insulation (Certainteed) left over. I wondered whether the R38 could be useful treating the front wall of my basement Home Theater, which is basically an area of an otherwise open basement plan. The front wall of the HT area (12' wide x 7 ceiling ht.) is a simple framed single layer drywall, which separates my basement HT area from the adjoining Utility room, so it can easily be accessed for the "treatment". My obvious interest is to minimize both sound leakage from the HT area as well as minimize noise coming from the Utility room.
I recognize that soundproofing or sound isolation for my HT area is beyond my means, so I am exploring simple, seemingly common sense and inexpensive approaches.
2. In another discussion thread, I got very helpful suggestions on treating the ceiling. I subsequently found a pieces of foam carpet padding in my attic, and thought it might help dampen sound transmission via the tin ductwork, so I used it wrap as much of the ducts as possible. Before I invest in more of the padding, is this worth even the effort and $100 or so of padding I may need?
3. Finally, for an open basement plan, do I need to only focus on the air ducts in the immediate HT area or do I need to cover every linear foot of duct in the entire basement?
Thank you.