Finishing in our basement - this is a view of the shower. On the other side of the wall is the bedroom and where the bed will be placed.
We’d like to put a little bit of sound dampening in this wall. Is the Thermafibre Sound Guard Mineral Wool a good option here, or is there something else we should be considering?
Something is better than nothing when it comes to sound deadening. Probably the best thing you could do in addition to the mineral wool is to double rock that shared wall using 2 layers of 5/8" drywall.
A couple of years ago the vinyl soffit panels on my house were replaced as part of a siding/roof project. The old soffit was mostly solid panels with vent panels (w/perforated holes) every 5-ft or so. The new soffit panels are Ply Gem Mastic Ventura hidden vent type, basically a pair of slim horizontal slots every 3-1/2" instead of the occasional vent panel..
Last summer it seemed like the attic ran hotter and the top floor's HVAC had a harder time keeping up. I recently looked in the attic and saw that when the house was built in 1995 they evidently only put vent baffles between trusses lining up with where the old soffit's vent panels were. Other spaces has insulation right up against the roof sheathing. With these new evenly spaced soffit vent slots it seems to me I should add baffles between every truss now, correct?
I just installed one of the 4-ft black plastic baffles from Lowes. It took quite a bit of effort, so before I go to all that trouble to do more I want to be sure I'm not doing something inadvisable or unproductive.
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I just put in a "Through the Wall" Air conditioner. Kind of like a window unit, but through the wall.
Can I use Spray foam insulation around this?
The spray foam will touch the metal box of the AC unit.
Yes or no?
Thanks
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05-02-21, 07:41 AM
