AUDIO POST facilities - How to finish up walls with doors?

Started by charleslee on 1 October 2006. 25 replies. In the Library under Doors and windows.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 7183.

About the only doors that might benefit from venting into wall cavities are those which you're NOT planning on being double; those walls will need to be sealed at the gaps because you're only using one door; otherwise, the second leaf of the wall will just blow out next to your single door. For your one sound lock door, there are so many leaves I doubt it'll matter whether you seal those gaps between leaves or vent them; I can't even begin to guess what your isolation values will be with that construction - in order to gain ANY benefit from using 5 leaf walls, you'd need to put a door in line with EACH LEAF of mass so your 'leaf count" remained constant... Steve