Your home is your castle, and the last thing you need is your son or stereo phone your daughter sounded an army of Knights charging through their way to fight. Noise comes from the sound waves, the vibrations of air generated by the physical action. If you can break, cut, alter or change the tide, you can change the cost of delivering voice.

WALL CONSTRUCTION A MAJOR KEY TO QUIET

If you are building or renovating, you have many opportunities to impact noise transmission is not available to you after the house completed. Perhaps the most important consideration is the interior wall. A typical wall is a sandwich of wood stud drywall over the sheets. Since drywall is a solid, relatively thin material, it is no small break the sound waves, and the air trapped in the wall cavity between the sheets will not do anything to stop the transmission of sound.

A clear solution is to install insulation in walls between rooms, which will absorb some sound waves are extremely deadly and voice transmission. While any insulation is better then no, you're best off to determine the sound insulation than the more common thermal insulation, commonly found in the attic and exterior walls. Weight and more stable, this type of insulation specifically designed for this application.

You can make a big impact on how drywall is installed, too. Most drywall is installed by attaching directly to studs on each side of the wall, so that the sound waves from a room reflects directly through the drywall-stud-drywall directly composites into the next room. Installing double layer drywall with staggered stitches on each side of the wall will help to some degree, providing additional and therefore the thickness of the additional mass to help remove the sound waves. Special sound-off sheet can be used as first layer, directly under the outer layer of dry wall, or you can use one or two layers of 1/2-inch drywall instead of 5/8- inch standard.

For better sound delivery stop, you drop out with a direct connection between drywall and studs as possible. Perhaps the most effective way to achieve this is to install resilient channel, also called "hat channels," before installing drywall. U-shaped metal channel mounted horizontally in the face of man, then drywall is placed in metal channel is not buttoned. What is strange from the point of connection and sound-absorbing characteristics of the channel design makes a big difference in how much the sound transmission between walls.

Separation pressed the sound a bit more expensive then thermal insulation, but the key is not the full cost of housing and will pay big dividends in peace and quiet, without affecting the total size of the wall. Double layer drywall and resilient channels also relatively cheap to overall scheme of things, but remember that they make a thick wall, which requires a larger door jambs and other changes.

WATCH THEIR windows and doors

Make a hole in the wall, and create a path to more noise. For that reason, when you think about how things calm down, you want to pay particular attention to windows and doors. Wood and vinyl window frames over property and then weak metal frame, which is more susceptible to vibration and sound transmission. Also, thick air gap between glass panels and better insulation operating window, the window would be better to do than on acoustic and thermal point of view.

Solid-core doors also more blocking noise and the empty-core door, so you can consider upgrading to solid-core doors inside the room where the sound to be a problem. Even with solid-core doors, sound can make a way around the door, too. Therefore, keep the door close as possible suitable for floor, use materials resistant to seal between the door frame and wall studs before installing the door casing, and consider some type of weatherstripping between door and door stop, even inside the door.

Quiet tube

If you have a two-story house, set iron waste line for all floors above the pipe. This dense, rather coarse material better off the sound of running water in a more general line of ABS plastic waste, which is slipped inside.