Wanting help from people that have gone through the same issue, and now have good sound insulation...
The wall I'd like to sound insulate, which I expect is just brick with standard plaster on top, is the attached wall to neighbours property.
Newish neighbours have by the sounds of it stripped back everything to wooden floors and painted walls, I can now hear them doing most things, walking around in heels on wooden floors, drying hair, talking, TV etc. Also they've fitted new doors, which bang and reverberate through the wall/floor when shutting, it's like they're in an echo chamber now! Unfortunately they're so arrogant and ignorant that we now don't talk.
I'd therefore like to insulate my upstairs bedroom wall (and possibly floor?), so I don't have to wake up at 6am each morning due to their early morning noise.
I've googled and there's plenty of things I could try, but I want a soution that works first time. I don't think it's going to be as easy as a thick wallpaper on my side of the wall
The wall I'd like to sound insulate, which I expect is just brick with standard plaster on top, is the attached wall to neighbours property.
Newish neighbours have by the sounds of it stripped back everything to wooden floors and painted walls, I can now hear them doing most things, walking around in heels on wooden floors, drying hair, talking, TV etc. Also they've fitted new doors, which bang and reverberate through the wall/floor when shutting, it's like they're in an echo chamber now! Unfortunately they're so arrogant and ignorant that we now don't talk.
I'd therefore like to insulate my upstairs bedroom wall (and possibly floor?), so I don't have to wake up at 6am each morning due to their early morning noise.
I've googled and there's plenty of things I could try, but I want a soution that works first time. I don't think it's going to be as easy as a thick wallpaper on my side of the wall
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sorted byIt might be cheaper to move or invest in ear defenders or isolation headphones... Have you considered relocating your sleeping area within your house?
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Certainly, if you create a false partition, insulate, decouple, sound board, mass loaded vinyl (tecsound for eg), and sound board again (using acoustic sealant at each soundboard layer) you will get the best and will lose most space (circa 174mm not 300mm).
However, you can deconstruct that whilst taking a step down and still yield good results - such as muteclips/genie clips without fake partition but the rest yields within 10% but significantly lose less (70mm).
Floors ceiling similar but you lose less space by the furring channel running parallel to the joists
Having done the later recently this changed a room whereby the neighbours felt they were in the same room to the sound coming more loudly through the patio doors and whilst you can still hear now more like background noise such as people down the street.
Look up ikoustic and genieclip guides that talk through the various options - all have disclaimers and all add costs (edited)
Not being entirely flippant here, but sometimes it's the only answer - move.
None of that is relevant here though, what I did want to point out is what we found when we broke through. Merging the two living rooms we found that the only thing between the houses was two rows of six inch breeze block. Add a couple of sheets of plasterboard and a bit of air, and it's clear to see why adjoining neighbours can be incredibly noisy. Even the floors were essentially connected, as everything lined up horizontally and vertically. The only thing between the pairs of joists was maybe three inches of air gap, nowhere near enough to isolate a big lump of resonating wood. This is in an 80's house that was built as a semi-detached pair.
You basically have to get on well with the neighbours, buy them out, or move.