Hello,
I live in a very noise-sensitive apartment, and almost every day there are new surprises regarding sounds that can be heard. This is very stressful for me, and if finding an apartment in Hamburg wasn’t so complicated, I would have moved already. To make it more bearable, I am trying everything to reduce the noise.
A new problem I have now is that the music from the newly opened café below me can be heard very loudly through the heating pipes (see photos). These pipes run openly through the room from below and carry the sound upwards as if there were a hole in the floor. You can also clearly hear voices through the pipes.
Is there a way to insulate the pipes and reduce the noise? Possibly with foam pipe covers? Or would it be necessary to build a full box around the pipes and try to insulate that? Or is there really nothing that can be done from up here?
I live in a very noise-sensitive apartment, and almost every day there are new surprises regarding sounds that can be heard. This is very stressful for me, and if finding an apartment in Hamburg wasn’t so complicated, I would have moved already. To make it more bearable, I am trying everything to reduce the noise.
A new problem I have now is that the music from the newly opened café below me can be heard very loudly through the heating pipes (see photos). These pipes run openly through the room from below and carry the sound upwards as if there were a hole in the floor. You can also clearly hear voices through the pipes.
Is there a way to insulate the pipes and reduce the noise? Possibly with foam pipe covers? Or would it be necessary to build a full box around the pipes and try to insulate that? Or is there really nothing that can be done from up here?
Try to loosen the pipe collars (push them up?).
The pipes probably have plenty of play in the penetration.
I would stuff glass wool insulation into the gaps.
Foam pipe covers are not very effective; they are more suitable for thermal insulation.
It is unlikely that sound is transmitted THROUGH the heating pipes.
If anything, it is more likely to be structure-borne noise. This can also be dampened with mineral wool mats:
wrap and secure them!
The pipes probably have plenty of play in the penetration.
I would stuff glass wool insulation into the gaps.
Foam pipe covers are not very effective; they are more suitable for thermal insulation.
It is unlikely that sound is transmitted THROUGH the heating pipes.
If anything, it is more likely to be structure-borne noise. This can also be dampened with mineral wool mats:
wrap and secure them!
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hampshire29 Oct 2021 00:00Build a soundproofed closed box around it, that works. It takes up as much space as a useless shelf, costs almost nothing at the local hardware store, and is 100% reversible when moving out.
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