Do acoustic slat panels really work?

[Onearmman]

Living in a duplex and shared a common brick wall with a noisy neighbor who like late night music. Saw these acoustic slat and thinking about installing and entire common wall with these.

Anyone with real life experience who could share if they can really reduce noice coming through walls?

Will concrete nail glue be good enough for a permanent solution?

 

thank you

[Prof]

Hi Onearmman..

I'm afraid those panels are not going to help..as already suggested..being a brick wall..

To sound insulate (to get some improvement) requires a lot more material...

Firstly you would need to buy some 2" thick acoustic fibreglass sheets to completely cover the wall from floor to ceiling..They come in 1200 x 2400 sheets.so you can work out how many you would need to cover the wall..

These sheets are yellow in colour and would not look nice covering the whole wall..so you would need to cover them with something..

You just can't cover them with cloth, because you could never get it smoothly stretched across the whole wall.!

You would have to make timber frames that each acoustic sheet could fit in..and then cover the frames with a dense material like canvas..

To make it look aesthetically pleasing, you could then fit another frame on top of the existing frame, which in turn would cover up the edges of the covering..

Putting it simply..Each acoustic sheet would be framed in 2" deep timber..covered with a dense material..and adding a frame on top...

All of that should help to reduce the sound level..Not eliminate it.!

Good luck with it all..

Prof..