Pieces of Quiet
This past weekend, Dion and Kirsten (Casie’s cousin and boyfriend) stopped by with Dion’s brother Dominic. They’ve just moved here from New Jersey where Dion was working as a drywall contractor. While good house guests to have, we actually hired them to help with a bit of the drywall while Casie and I tackled the window/siding project before the rains started this week.
We started in the bedroom with the installation of a product called QuietRock — a sound-proofing drywall. The bedroom tends to get a bit noisy with both a rooster and a convalescent home within 100 feet, so the investment will likely prove worth it. The 5/8s ($60/sheet) drywall seemed like gypsum glued to hardi-backer while the 1/2in ($30/sheet) was like two 1/2in sheets with a rubberized membrane in the middle. Both were much heavier than regular drywall and the 5/8 was super-tough to cut… but in the end, it seems worth it. The hum from the roof mounted HVAC compressor is cut to a nearly inaudible din. Some noise still comes through the single-pane sliding door, but that’s to be expected. Sound bouncing around the room is also cut quite a bit and should be even quieter once we have furniture in the room and clothes in the closet.
So, the drywall project is starting (with a little help), which is good on both counts.
