This year's primary homeowner task (for me) is remodeling my wife's & my bedroom & bathroom. Both have received "lick and a promise" help in the time we've owned the house, but it's finally their turn for a major redo. The entire house was once strictly walled inside with1/8" paneling. Great for quick, throw-it-up-and-get-it-done construction... not so great for hanging things or stopping noise from transmitting throughout the entire place! The bat-room is getting a new layer of paneling with soundboard sandwiched between, along with a new tile floor. The new paneling is sound-deadening in itself, and is moisture-and-mold resistant. Woo-Hoo! With that much noise reduction, our son can hoot and holler all he likes while showering, and we don't have to hear!
The bedroom itself is getting both soundboard and sheetrock, helping both with insulation and noise reduction. Yay! now we don't have to listen to the neighbor behind's dogs banging their metal food bowls all over the yard during the wee hours! (or the other neighbors' multitudinous dogs' vocal disagreements with their environment and each other!) It also gets a new light fixture to replace the sad little POS that was originally installed and apparently nearly beaten to death by the builders. Poor thing is bent and mashed in ways that make it a wonder that it works. If I still have any functioning fingers left to operate the camera with by that time, I may post some
after pix.
No comments:
Post a Comment