Dogdaydawn
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I need to reduce sound transmission in an area of a room temporarily but keep ventilated.
Hi appreciate you are not a pet forum but I have a physics degree and basic knowledge and I was hoping you would be the group to help me out. Dog backstory below. Problems:
1. I need to reduce reverb. Dog pitches till it bounces well.
2. Neighbor sound transmission through floor, wall and fireplace. (Dog crate does not touch wall)
Would really appreciate a heads up on what below is nonsense and what might help. Also anything I’ve missed. Cheap and temporary. Crate already covered to keep dark.
Thinking:
Option 1: free
- someone gave me acoustic foam panels. Appreciate these seem to be agreed to be useless but I think I could get the refurb down a bit. Position on boards and by trial and error, angles and guesswork work out how best to use. Maybe hang one of the boards with the tiles from ceiling with tape.
- use some spare normal curtains/blankets to muffle reflective walls
-double rug and use all my exercise mats to elevate dog crate.
Option 2: spend a bit of money but undertake no carpentry beyond a staple gun
- mass loaded vinyl matting on floor and one side of crate
- might as well use the free panels but get some other acoustic panels with mass for neighbor walls
- do something with the corners. Maybe rock wool insulation in tube taped up?
- maybe buy soundproof curtains.
Option 3: go ambitious but without contractors. Same as 2 but
- decouple the crate from insulated floor by lifting on to a homemade platform with hollow triangle feet like the dry wall spacers. (Keep away from walls
- could use green glue and mdf and mass loaded vinyl to make larger dense wall panels than I could afford
Dog backstory (tl;dr - she barks at 4am & needs to bark it out and I share a wall with neighbors.)
I have a an anxious dog who has learned due to a period of illness that if she barks we will come. She now wakes up with the birds and barks… she will bark for an hour if we let her. She also does this if she hears the neighbors or a fox or a car at 3am. (And once a burglar)
Have tried dog behaviorist led and vet led solutions (they have confirmed no longer need based.)
The main solution is to unlearn. Which means she needs to bark it out in her home environment. This could take a month or so and we share a wall.
Also I live in a country without Climate Controlled homes and house is over 100 years old.
Hi appreciate you are not a pet forum but I have a physics degree and basic knowledge and I was hoping you would be the group to help me out. Dog backstory below. Problems:
1. I need to reduce reverb. Dog pitches till it bounces well.
2. Neighbor sound transmission through floor, wall and fireplace. (Dog crate does not touch wall)
Would really appreciate a heads up on what below is nonsense and what might help. Also anything I’ve missed. Cheap and temporary. Crate already covered to keep dark.
Thinking:
Option 1: free
- someone gave me acoustic foam panels. Appreciate these seem to be agreed to be useless but I think I could get the refurb down a bit. Position on boards and by trial and error, angles and guesswork work out how best to use. Maybe hang one of the boards with the tiles from ceiling with tape.
- use some spare normal curtains/blankets to muffle reflective walls
-double rug and use all my exercise mats to elevate dog crate.
Option 2: spend a bit of money but undertake no carpentry beyond a staple gun
- mass loaded vinyl matting on floor and one side of crate
- might as well use the free panels but get some other acoustic panels with mass for neighbor walls
- do something with the corners. Maybe rock wool insulation in tube taped up?
- maybe buy soundproof curtains.
Option 3: go ambitious but without contractors. Same as 2 but
- decouple the crate from insulated floor by lifting on to a homemade platform with hollow triangle feet like the dry wall spacers. (Keep away from walls
- could use green glue and mdf and mass loaded vinyl to make larger dense wall panels than I could afford
Dog backstory (tl;dr - she barks at 4am & needs to bark it out and I share a wall with neighbors.)
I have a an anxious dog who has learned due to a period of illness that if she barks we will come. She now wakes up with the birds and barks… she will bark for an hour if we let her. She also does this if she hears the neighbors or a fox or a car at 3am. (And once a burglar)
Have tried dog behaviorist led and vet led solutions (they have confirmed no longer need based.)
The main solution is to unlearn. Which means she needs to bark it out in her home environment. This could take a month or so and we share a wall.
Also I live in a country without Climate Controlled homes and house is over 100 years old.