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Hi folks,

In the short term, I want to treat my windows acoustically so to get my homebusiness running. I would have a stronger application with the shire should I show that I've done something or have a quote for something to be done pending a successful application for my drum teaching business.

I don't really need to get into the reasons, but suffice to say I am asking your advice regarding window treatment, while aware that sound can go around windows. The shire just needs to be impressed, and my drums use mesh heads... anyway I'll go on.


My window is 970mm wide and 25 courses of brick high. The bottom foot or so is fixed, and the remaining top is an awning (?). It can be wound open from the bottom...

What would be a cheap and preferably effective window treatment for the medium term for this window? Long term goal is to build a room in a room as per my other discussions when money allows.


Thanks!

Any opinions on this

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Search for a "window plug" here at the forum. It will be the most cost effective way to isolate sound without getting into real construction.

Pictures would help! It's hard to understand what you have if you don't show us!

Also, if you don't want to actually get any isolation, and just want to appear to have done something to impress the inspectors, then just putting a piece of thick plexiglass in a wooden frame and sticking that over the window would do the job. It won't have any real acoustic effect, it will be cheap to build, and as long as the inspector doesn't know much about sound, it would look nice.

However, inspectors often do know something about sound, and trying to fool them is not a good idea! I would not go down that path at all, to be honest. Rather, I'd do something that actually will work, such as what Brien suggested, and also isolate the rest of the room properly.

- Stuart -

As requested

Update , the representative from Magnetite came out and provided a quote of $1240AUD for their 10mm option. Including framing, wood plate for the ground. All painted and finished. Supposedly going to take my current 6mm window from 23.5 RW to 39RW with the additional 10mm.

Of course the sound will still go through the ceiling and the door (which is not a solid door yet).


I guess the silver lining is that the window would eventually need to be treated in some way (if not this way??) when I go ahead and build a room within a room. So it's not really a waste of money, right?


Thanks for your opinions

" So it's not really a waste of money, right?"

Build the window plug and keep the savings to add towards building a proper isolated studio.

Build the window plug and keep the savings to add towards building a proper isolated studio.

Yep. 39 points is not exactly a huge amount, especially for that amount of money. Most studios are isolated about ten times better than that, to at least 50 dB.

- Stuart -