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   highfigh | Nov 20, 2006 07:11am | #1

   Make the shop in one enclosure and isolate it as much as possible from the living compartment. If you can, don't even connect the shop ceiling to the outside walls. If this is a possibility, maybe you can use the space outside the shop space for storage, ducting, or whatever. Resilient channels on the ceiling with doubled drywall and insulate the crap out of the ceiling and walls. The more barriers the sound needs to go through to get to the apartment, the lower the SPL will be. Ditto for physical isolation. A rubber pad under the walls will help, too. Look in the phone book for acoustical contractors in your area. To make the workspace better acoustically, look for a material called Tectum. It's used in a lot of commercial spaces, gymnasiums and arenas, shopping malls, convention centers and anywhere ambient noise could become excessive.

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   nikkiwood | Nov 20, 2006 07:56am | #2

   There is a good article on various soundproofing techiques in the current issue of Fine Homebuilding, which should be on the news stands now.

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   ring | Nov 20, 2006 11:01am | #3

   Dan,

   I've used sheeting from http://www.quietsolution.com which is basically 4' x 8' ply panels with a sound barrier in the middle. You can cut it and drill it as you would plywood, using the sheets as part of the construction but gaining the noise reduction at the same time. They have various products at different levels of noise reduction. Check the website and find a retailer near you.

   DR

4. 
   VeriestTyro | Nov 20, 2006 03:34pm | #4

   SoundStop board

   http://www.aknightcompany.com/productline/soundstop/ss_overview.asp

    

   
   

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   Edited 11/20/2006 7:35 am ET by VeriestTyro