What is the cost of sound-proofing a room?

[Dari]

Will be promoted in a couple of months. Boss is asking me what I'd like (in addition to new office with personal bathroom). I don't usually ask for much and I don't think I want anything from the company. But, if I could, I'd like to get a sound-insulated bathroom. When I go and use the bathroom I don't like to hear other people. I like things to be completely quiet so I can concentrate. What I do now is just take ear-plugs into the bathroom (the only way I was able to get through college and grad school). But I'm afraid this request may be too expensive.

I could also ask for a charger to be installed in my building's garage for the Tesla I will buy later this year.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Fuck that. You could get a personal fluffer for cheaper.

 

[mugs]

This is a parody or something, right?

 

[Red Squirrel]

If you were to do it at home, probably close, but under $1000.

To do it in a commercial environment, probably 50k. If it's for the government 1.5mil. If it's healthcare, 15mil, and it will take 5 years worth of weekly meetings before it actually gets done.

Honestly though, if you already have a personal bathroom, I think that on it's own should fix the problem. You're probably like me, where you can't pee if there's lot of noise and people around. But being in a personal bathroom should fix that. It's all in the head. Seems it's the feeling of knowing someone is waiting for you, that makes it hard. Errr, difficult might be a better word here.

 

[Dari]

If you were to do it at home, probably close, but under $1000.

To do it in a commercial environment, probably 50k. If it's for the government 1.5mil. If it's healthcare, 15mil, and it will take 5 years worth of weekly meetings before it actually gets done.

Honestly though, if you already have a personal bathroom, I think that on it's own should fix the problem. You're probably like me, where you can't pee if there's lot of noise and people around. But being in a personal bathroom should fix that. It's all in the head. Seems it's the feeling of knowing someone is waiting for you, that makes it hard. Errr, difficult might be a better word here.

Wow. Thanks. I could never do that to the firm. They've been too good to me.

 

[Greenman]

I've never in my life seen a sound proof room.

 

[OCGuy]

What is this post making fun of exactly?

 

[HeXen]

I've never in my life seen a sound proof room.

Any good audio shop will have a sound proof room for demo's.

 

[OCGuy]

This means one of a couple things:

1. You have a terrible phobia about other people hearing your bodily functions

2. You are so terrified of it, you also wear plugs to prevent you from hearing yourself

3. Your current bathroom is next to an airport runway

 

[Dari]

This means one of a couple things:

1. You have a terrible phobia about other people hearing your bodily functions

2. You are so terrified of it, you also wear plugs to prevent you from hearing yourself

3. Your current bathroom is next to an airport runway

Nope. I just like quiet. I like to concentrate when taking a shower or using the bathroom. Some of my best ideas have come from sitting on the john. I know there are jokes in that statement but it's true.

 

[Greenman]

Any good audio shop will have a sound proof room for demo's.

I've seen a bunch of those, with the doors closed I can still clearly hear the music outside the room. That's not soundproof.

 

[sdifox]

Or have them buy you a pair of noise cancelling cans and the latest ipad. And a battery powered headphone amp. Plus something on the stall wall, like a folding shelf, to put this stuff.

 

[Baked]

Honestly though, if you already have a personal bathroom, I think that on it's own should fix the problem. You're probably like me, where you can't pee if there's lot of noise and people around. But being in a personal bathroom should fix that. It's all in the head. Seems it's the feeling of knowing someone is waiting for you, that makes it hard. Errr, difficult might be a better word here.

Hey keep it clean there, we have children on these forums. But you should probably practice peeing at professional stadiums and ballparks where you pee in a giant elongated bath tube, and you can see everybody's schlong.

 

[T9D]

Soundboard goes under the sheetrock and is pretty cheap. Can get it at home depot. But it's not cheap actually putting it in.

If you want dead silent where you wouldn't hear a bomb even you can get this green stuff called mineral wool. It's about 4 inches thick and goes between the studs. And it will be a tomb in there even if a rock concert is in the next room.

 

[Humpy]

A sound proof room would probably cost millions.

A magnetically levitating room inside a room, with a vacuum pulled in the space between the two, would be a good start. Could use inductive coils or lasers to get power to the inside.

All of the practical methods I know of only provide varying degrees of isolation.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Stop feeding the troll

 

[mmntech]

If you were to do it at home, probably close, but under $1000.

To do it in a commercial environment, probably 50k. If it's for the government 1.5mil. If it's healthcare, 15mil, and it will take 5 years worth of weekly meetings before it actually gets done.

Honestly though, if you already have a personal bathroom, I think that on it's own should fix the problem. You're probably like me, where you can't pee if there's lot of noise and people around. But being in a personal bathroom should fix that. It's all in the head. Seems it's the feeling of knowing someone is waiting for you, that makes it hard. Errr, difficult might be a better word here.

Not quite that much for commercial environment. Depends on the room size and level of soundproofing you want. It cost about $10k to do a 15x15' studio at work. That's with recording studio grade acoustic foam. When it came to the ceiling we just stuffed the crap out of it with hardware store grade soundproof insulation. It's fairly quiet in there. The real big problem spots with studio soundproofing are HVAC and the door. The HVAC is where a lot of money got sunk beyond the initial ten grand.

For more run of the mill jobs, dense soundproof insulation you can buy at Home Depot will work. No need to worry about HVAC.

 

[IronWing]

Just slap on a coat of sound proof paint and call it good.

 

[Red Squirrel]

A sound proof room would probably cost millions.

A magnetically levitating room inside a room, with a vacuum pulled in the space between the two, would be a good start. Could use inductive coils or lasers to get power to the inside.

All of the practical methods I know of only provide varying degrees of isolation.

While that would probably be virtually 100% soundproof, a couple layers of soundproof drywall and some roxul insulation will do the trick. Even better is two separate walls with a void in between. Yes they will be connected at the ground and ceiling but it still provides a decent buffer. Something loud enough will still travel through but talking and general noise probably wont.

If you could find a material that will absorb sound and convert it 100% to heat, that could actually work very well too.

 

[disappoint]

$1.8M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM3jWYGNoLU

 

[Murloc]

I've seen a bunch of those, with the doors closed I can still clearly hear the music outside the room. That's not soundproof.

yeah because guitars and stuff are really loud, plus it's just a plexiglas wall.
You aren't able to hear people talking outside of the room though.

 

[OlafSicky]

Therapy would be cheapest. If that is not your cup of tee than glue some dry wall with green glue on the walls this is probably the least expensive method. But if you have a drop cling and the interior walls don't go all the way up you will have a a problem.

 

[roguerower]

An STC 50 wall is relatively easy to build. Metal studs, sound batt insulation, acoustical caulk at the bottom and top of the walls, and 2 layers of rock on either side of the stud.

Possible? Yes. Feasible? No.

 

[Sluggo]

Just have them build you a holodeck, and have the holodeck simulate a soundproof bathroom.

 

[brianmanahan]

This is a parody or something, right?

this is a dari thread

so it is a parody of life