sound proofing house windows

roscoenyc · Post by **roscoenyc** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:11 pm

another set of windows. Second set inside.
total 2 sets of thermal pane windows.
You can open them up and everything.

Key to this strategy is to open up the moulding and make sure
the cavity between the wall and the window is properly sealed.
I'd bet that's where most of the sound is escaping (or coming in!)

Ted White · Post by **Ted White** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:15 pm

roscoenyc wrote:
Key to this strategy is to open up the moulding and make sure
the cavity between the wall and the window is properly sealed.
I'd bet that's where most of the sound is escaping (or coming in!)

That is SUCH a good point.

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:29 pm

You know... after 97 years I'll just bet...

Ted White · Post by **Ted White** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:33 pm

Doors and ventilation are the two biggest flanking paths. Outlets and gaps behind baseboard are next.

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:06 pm

My friend Matt is an aerospace engineer. He tells me what I really need is one big plastic bag filled with vacuum to stuff in there. I'm not too sure how that would work...

I'm sure I'm getting flanked on the baseboards... and the outlets. The house had insulation blown into it by the previous owners, so that might help a little bit with bleed-through via the floorboards. But I'll bet if I pulled those suckers off and stuck ... something ... in there, something that was then sealed to the walls... ... well, someday.

Meanwhile I'm going to try to figure out how to make a plastic bag filled with vacuum expand to fit anything.

jnTracks · Post by **jnTracks** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:02 am

hahahahaha. yea vacuum would solve everything, no transmission what-so-ever.

also, a plastic bag with vacuum would collapse, cause there is, you know, air here?

hahahahhaaha

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