Hi All,
I’m getting a basement shop up and running. I’m concerned about noise coming into the living areas, and I’m wondering if there’s an interior door option that would help muffle excessive sound. Can anyone help?
Hi All,
I’m getting a basement shop up and running. I’m concerned about noise coming into the living areas, and I’m wondering if there’s an interior door option that would help muffle excessive sound. Can anyone help?
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Gonna be a problem. DW said never again over the shop. Make sure Mrs. Tom really likes what you do...
We've found that the half hour fire doors I bought at auction muffle effectively.
Welcome to BT. Click on your name and fill in your profile, particularly location. If you're next door here, I might be able to find a spare fire door, assuming you could use 36x84.
PAHS works. Bury it.
Order your shop entrance door with an exterior frame. Comes with weatherstripping.
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Edited 6/12/2008 11:08 am ET by peteshlagor
The cheap, Home Depot steel doors to my basement apartment are surprisingly sound supressing. When someone knocks I can barely hear it. While that may be that they don't want to knock too hard, when I ask who's there I can barely hear them reply and have to open the door to see who it is.
Of course, when your wife replies and you say "Who?", you may as well just stay in your shop for a while.
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Use exterior steel doors in exterior frames with weather stripping (I think someone else beat me to saying this, so I'm agreeing with them).
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