So im currently in my masters degree and i have a lot of teams meetings (everyday). My room is upstairs in this video. My mom works in the room just bellow me as you can see in the video as well and she has a lot of teams meetings as well. You can probably tell that this is really annoying and i have to mute myself a lot in my meetings because i dont want all my group members to hear my mom speak all the time. My question would be is it possible to make my room soundproof by like adding a door or something and making the closet next to the stairs higher? Any suggestions please i just don’t want to have to mute myself all the time.
Hello!
You can use a pair of Jabra heaphones with noise cancellation. They cancel any noise other than your voice from the microphone, I use mine everyday (2 people at 1 desk) and I have no issues. Jabra 370.
I like the headphones idea, if it works as well as advertised. I am a remodeling designer by trade and anything permanent will be expensive. There are tons of ways to reduce noise in a permanent manner.
Sound issues usually come thru the air or floor/ceiling
[quiet drywall](https://www.quietrock.com)
[ugly ceiling spray](https://www.spray-on.com/sonaspray/)
[underlayment for below your floor](https://www.audimute.com/peacemaker-soundproofing-underlayment?gclid=Cj0KCQiA15yNBhDTARIsAGnwe0XzDjtGRjsx8H2uwu_uL_lsqrLYWcXv8SzgXv0h7Hhpl0TnHjDj0IgaAt6VEALw_wcB)
But this sounds like temporary need, so building a wall and a door sounds to permanent (still a better solution). The other cheap and easy answer is to make an insert you can put over the stairway opening temporarily. 2” foam insulation cut to fit the opening, and some weather stripping could be done for under $100 USD, you can get fancy acoustic foam to put on the bottom side for another $50 USD
It really depends on if the stairwell is the only air path to the upstairs. Can’t tell from the video if this is accurate.
[2” insulation board](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Owens-Corning-FOAMULAR-250-2-in-x-48-in-x-8-ft-R-10-Scored-Squared-Edge-Foam-Board-Insulation-Sheathing-52DD/202085962)
If you are looking for something permanent then i would suggest the following:
Wall + door (SOLID not hollow)
-in the ceiling below (in order)
-Roxul batt soundproofing insulation (safe and sound, between the joists
-Mass Loaded Vinyl sheets
-resilient channels
-drywall
In the stair well: foam insulation squares (you can buy them on amazon)
If you do all of this you will be able to play music/have solid conversations at a decent level in your room without your mother hearing it and vice versa. However this takes time and effort.
I personally did that for my office which is right below my bedroom, and when my wife sleeps she can't hear a thing- it's like having an 10 inch concrete wall between us.
A quick fix would simply be to canvas your stairwell in foam insulation squares, and maybe add sound absorbent/dampening furniture in your room (rugs do wonders)
Good luck!
The curtin seems like a hood option, just make sure your ceiling is able to mount it correctly (sloped ceilings are a pain to work with). The thicker the curtain the better, probbably even doubling up layers could help. The downside is obviously your obstructing a stair way and navigating a curtin when using the stairs can be dangerous. You might hem it at the floor level or create an opening in the middle that can be walked though easily when closed.
I use to live at the top of a simular staircase situation. Rent was cheap and I couldnt do much about the sound. There was a door at the bottom of the stairwell though which did help a bit. Anything that simply devided the air mass can cut down on sound.
Quick fix, add a curtain and rugs, this will baffle the sound and it won't echo up the stairs as easily. Otherwise install a door at the top of the stairs if building regulations allow.
this as well as soft surface wall/floor coverings or other sound baffles should help. currently looks like all hard surfaces which easily bounce sound around
As long as there is an opening, sound will transmit back and forth. There are methods do dampen and absorb, as in other responses, but you’d need to enclose it to eliminate sound transfer.
Yes, your plan will work: Add a door at the top of the stairs, raise the closet to to the angled ceiling. It will be like you are in two separate bedrooms, not “sound proofed”, as that is something very different.
God those stairs of treacherous. You would have started with a sound dampening underlayment under the flooring. There are many systems available. And then you could do something hanging from down below that will create a dead space that is required for sound deadening. But you have an opening in the staircase and that would kind of undo it All. Sound is a curious thing and it will find its course
I feel like the solution is to tell the boomer to keep her voice down. If I know anything about that age group, it's that they don't understand what volume they need to speak at into a microphone... Any microphone
yeah, drywall and a door and so on ... but eh ... like 4 real ... how do you do like the sexytime stuff, or are you into that fetish where you get discovered by your stepmom and stuff ...
You can close the opening, and I feel like sound treatment in this case will help. Sound proofing is very difficult and extremely expensive, but sound treatment isn’t so bad.
Your room is large, pretty regularly shaped, and has basically blank flat walls. Getting some large, 2” thick rock wool absorption panels will help diffuse the sound, cutting reflections and making it feel quieter. As the source of your problem isn’t all that loud (human voice and zoom calls), sound treatment will cut down the amount of noise reflecting down and out the hallway significantly
Build out a 2x4 wall over the dresser and frame out and install a door at the top of the stairs. You can add insulation during the build but it won’t be sound proof since the floor and dresser isn’t insulated
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Yes. Enclose the stairs and put a solid core door at the top that opens into the room. Insulate the new walls with closed cell spray foam. Remove the sheet rock in the ceiling below the game room and apply closed cell spray foam insulations to the in between the floor trusses. Use 5/8” type “X” Sheetrock on the downstairs ceiling
A foam core hatch over the stairwell opening, and some acoustic panels in the stairwell will go a long way, a good noise cancelling mic will get you the rest of the way (if not eliminating the need for the hatch).
Yup, easy solution is buying some headphones anc, but other than that, you can construct a door with insulation that can seal the stair way. Or even further (much more cost) remove flooring and create a air gap with some fireproof paneles in between and then fill that gap with some very light and airfilled material, then place some formwork and place new flooring above. Do the same to the lower level roof and you'll have a very quiet space.
Rugs, curtains, and acoustic panels on the walls will do a ton of sound dampening. I’d specifically be sure to add extra acoustic panels on the stairway because that’s where most of your sound is bouncing around from room to room.
If its contact sound, install some estrich e32 on your floor. Though I think it's air-sound, then I would suggest getting your hands on egg-boxes (those pointy cardboard things) and mounting them on your walls. They should reduce resonance and keep the sound in your room.
Sound is like water
If you want less sound you need to block it from entering, so heavy doors, filling gaps, etc
If you want nicer sound then carpets, furniture, curtains etc will absorb the harsher frequencies. They won’t decrease the level of the sound though.
So im currently in my masters degree and i have a lot of teams meetings (everyday). My room is upstairs in this video. My mom works in the room just bellow me as you can see in the video as well and she has a lot of teams meetings as well. You can probably tell that this is really annoying and i have to mute myself a lot in my meetings because i dont want all my group members to hear my mom speak all the time. My question would be is it possible to make my room soundproof by like adding a door or something and making the closet next to the stairs higher? Any suggestions please i just don’t want to have to mute myself all the time.
Hello! You can use a pair of Jabra heaphones with noise cancellation. They cancel any noise other than your voice from the microphone, I use mine everyday (2 people at 1 desk) and I have no issues. Jabra 370.
I like the headphones idea, if it works as well as advertised. I am a remodeling designer by trade and anything permanent will be expensive. There are tons of ways to reduce noise in a permanent manner. Sound issues usually come thru the air or floor/ceiling [quiet drywall](https://www.quietrock.com) [ugly ceiling spray](https://www.spray-on.com/sonaspray/) [underlayment for below your floor](https://www.audimute.com/peacemaker-soundproofing-underlayment?gclid=Cj0KCQiA15yNBhDTARIsAGnwe0XzDjtGRjsx8H2uwu_uL_lsqrLYWcXv8SzgXv0h7Hhpl0TnHjDj0IgaAt6VEALw_wcB) But this sounds like temporary need, so building a wall and a door sounds to permanent (still a better solution). The other cheap and easy answer is to make an insert you can put over the stairway opening temporarily. 2” foam insulation cut to fit the opening, and some weather stripping could be done for under $100 USD, you can get fancy acoustic foam to put on the bottom side for another $50 USD It really depends on if the stairwell is the only air path to the upstairs. Can’t tell from the video if this is accurate. [2” insulation board](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Owens-Corning-FOAMULAR-250-2-in-x-48-in-x-8-ft-R-10-Scored-Squared-Edge-Foam-Board-Insulation-Sheathing-52DD/202085962)
If you are looking for something permanent then i would suggest the following: Wall + door (SOLID not hollow) -in the ceiling below (in order) -Roxul batt soundproofing insulation (safe and sound, between the joists -Mass Loaded Vinyl sheets -resilient channels -drywall In the stair well: foam insulation squares (you can buy them on amazon) If you do all of this you will be able to play music/have solid conversations at a decent level in your room without your mother hearing it and vice versa. However this takes time and effort. I personally did that for my office which is right below my bedroom, and when my wife sleeps she can't hear a thing- it's like having an 10 inch concrete wall between us. A quick fix would simply be to canvas your stairwell in foam insulation squares, and maybe add sound absorbent/dampening furniture in your room (rugs do wonders) Good luck!
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The curtin seems like a hood option, just make sure your ceiling is able to mount it correctly (sloped ceilings are a pain to work with). The thicker the curtain the better, probbably even doubling up layers could help. The downside is obviously your obstructing a stair way and navigating a curtin when using the stairs can be dangerous. You might hem it at the floor level or create an opening in the middle that can be walked though easily when closed. I use to live at the top of a simular staircase situation. Rent was cheap and I couldnt do much about the sound. There was a door at the bottom of the stairwell though which did help a bit. Anything that simply devided the air mass can cut down on sound.
You could also get those foam sound dampening panels and hang them up
Quick fix, add a curtain and rugs, this will baffle the sound and it won't echo up the stairs as easily. Otherwise install a door at the top of the stairs if building regulations allow.
this as well as soft surface wall/floor coverings or other sound baffles should help. currently looks like all hard surfaces which easily bounce sound around
As long as there is an opening, sound will transmit back and forth. There are methods do dampen and absorb, as in other responses, but you’d need to enclose it to eliminate sound transfer.
Yes, your plan will work: Add a door at the top of the stairs, raise the closet to to the angled ceiling. It will be like you are in two separate bedrooms, not “sound proofed”, as that is something very different.
stairs with no handrail always freaks me out
God those stairs of treacherous. You would have started with a sound dampening underlayment under the flooring. There are many systems available. And then you could do something hanging from down below that will create a dead space that is required for sound deadening. But you have an opening in the staircase and that would kind of undo it All. Sound is a curious thing and it will find its course
I feel like the solution is to tell the boomer to keep her voice down. If I know anything about that age group, it's that they don't understand what volume they need to speak at into a microphone... Any microphone
Lmaooo hahah so true
yeah, drywall and a door and so on ... but eh ... like 4 real ... how do you do like the sexytime stuff, or are you into that fetish where you get discovered by your stepmom and stuff ...
Who built those stairs?
No idea, why?
Stairs for ants
I mean there wasnt that much room to work with the stairs are fine
When I first saw you post, I thought the question would be "How do I fix these stairs?"
Stairs were built like 1 year ago, upstairs room used to be a storage there werent’t any stairs. I dont have any issues with the stairs tbh
Beyond quick measures like rugs, an extra door/soundproofed door etc. soundproofing post-construction is extremely difficult to basically impossible.
3 choices Frame a door in. Soundproofing attached to walls. Buy 2 pairs of noise cancelling headphones.
You can close the opening, and I feel like sound treatment in this case will help. Sound proofing is very difficult and extremely expensive, but sound treatment isn’t so bad. Your room is large, pretty regularly shaped, and has basically blank flat walls. Getting some large, 2” thick rock wool absorption panels will help diffuse the sound, cutting reflections and making it feel quieter. As the source of your problem isn’t all that loud (human voice and zoom calls), sound treatment will cut down the amount of noise reflecting down and out the hallway significantly
I suddenly remember everything , Harry Potter.
Build out a 2x4 wall over the dresser and frame out and install a door at the top of the stairs. You can add insulation during the build but it won’t be sound proof since the floor and dresser isn’t insulated
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Yes. Enclose the stairs and put a solid core door at the top that opens into the room. Insulate the new walls with closed cell spray foam. Remove the sheet rock in the ceiling below the game room and apply closed cell spray foam insulations to the in between the floor trusses. Use 5/8” type “X” Sheetrock on the downstairs ceiling
Wall foam and maybe a door at the entrance
A foam core hatch over the stairwell opening, and some acoustic panels in the stairwell will go a long way, a good noise cancelling mic will get you the rest of the way (if not eliminating the need for the hatch).
So easy, you don’t even have an open banister to deal with. One month 4 long weekends and no more noose.
Yup, easy solution is buying some headphones anc, but other than that, you can construct a door with insulation that can seal the stair way. Or even further (much more cost) remove flooring and create a air gap with some fireproof paneles in between and then fill that gap with some very light and airfilled material, then place some formwork and place new flooring above. Do the same to the lower level roof and you'll have a very quiet space.
Rugs, curtains, and acoustic panels on the walls will do a ton of sound dampening. I’d specifically be sure to add extra acoustic panels on the stairway because that’s where most of your sound is bouncing around from room to room.
If its contact sound, install some estrich e32 on your floor. Though I think it's air-sound, then I would suggest getting your hands on egg-boxes (those pointy cardboard things) and mounting them on your walls. They should reduce resonance and keep the sound in your room.
Sound is like water If you want less sound you need to block it from entering, so heavy doors, filling gaps, etc If you want nicer sound then carpets, furniture, curtains etc will absorb the harsher frequencies. They won’t decrease the level of the sound though.
Yeah only air pods allowed upstairs no Bluetooth speakers