Cheap Man Sound Proofing

AdrianH

AdrianH

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Hi

I have a small 2000W invertor generator that I use during power-cuts and load shedding to power a couple important things...like Xbox, TV and dsl router :)

I have an dog kennel that houses the generator quite nicely and it does help reducing the noise, but would like to see what I can do on the cheap to try suppress the noise even more as I am in a complex and want to keep the noise to a minimum.

A colleague suggested egg cartons, but I will be eating eggs for the next 10 years to get enough to cover the inside walls of the kennel.

Anybody have any ideas on what I can use and where I can get it quite easily to put on the inside walls of the kennel to help suppress the noise.

Thanks
 
Line the inside of the kennel with neoprene. Make it 3 or 4 layers. This is what I was going to do when I bought my generator., a friend of mine turned a wendy house behind his house into a makeshift recording studio for his kids and used it to deafen the sound. It works wonders.

I then realised that both my neighbours have their generators running outside so I just thought fsck it! :p

edit: forgot he first lined the walls with styropfoam sheets
 
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Think Pink or any similar product also works and it's flame retarded (um yes, lol retardant) if things go south. You should be able to pick up a roll for a couple hundred bucks.
 
YingYang said:
edit: forgot he first lined the walls with styropfoam sheets
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Styrofoam was a suggestion made to me. Do you know who sells this, Builders?

heartbroken said:
Think Pink or any similar product also works and it's flame retarded (um yes, lol retardant) if things go south. You should be able to pick up a roll for a couple hundred bucks.
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I actually have some IsoTherm leftover when I insulated my ceilings.

Maybe a combination of the Styrofoam first and then the insulation over the top might offer the best cheap solution.

Thanks
 
AdrianH said:
Styrofoam was a suggestion made to me. Do you know who sells this, Builders?
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No idea.

I was going to buy the sheet from someone on gumtree here in CT, but I see you're in JHB. Check the classifieds over there. The sheets are only like 10 or 20 bucks each IIRC
 
I know it does not help the OP but in CT you can get from Aerothane, dirt cheap and they cut to any size/thickness you need.

Used to get custom cuts for my marine tanks and sumps.
 
AdrianH said:
Styrofoam was a suggestion made to me. Do you know who sells this, Builders?



I actually have some IsoTherm leftover when I insulated my ceilings.

Maybe a combination of the Styrofoam first and then the insulation over the top might offer the best cheap solution.

Thanks
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I would sandwich the isotherm in between the kennel and the styrofoam - then you have a neat internal finish as well and should be super silent.

If you haven't already, you should fit a couple of fans to move the air through to prevent the thing from becoming a hot box.
 
Just turn up the volume on the TV - you wont hear a thing.
 
Be like my neighbor and have a **** off large generator that sounds like a Spar truck running.
In fact, he owns a spar so I wouldn't be surprised if it's not one of those big-ass trucks.

So we get load shed as his Boeing starts up.
 
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