Soundproofing an interior room in my house...

[HockeyPuck]

I've gotten great advice on this forum before, so I'm going to try again...

I'm in the middle of a complete renovation of my house and I've got 2 more rooms to complete and then, voila, my house is done... However, I've got the 2 most expensive rooms left, my kitchen and my mainfloor bathroom. I've got pretty much the kitchen all drywalled and mudded so I decided to start on my bathroom a couple of months ago. So I've got all the plumbing in place but then I thought it'd be a good idea to soundproof the walls since my bathroom is right next to the livingroom/diningroom - don't want any unwanted noises disturbing the peace in the adjacent rooms (My bathroom fan is hooked up to my bathroom light so I've got the noise of the fan also drowning out the 'music' as well - I tried to find the loudest fan that I could)

Anyways, I was just wondering if anybody knew of good products to use to soundproof a room...

[BlackArcher101]

Just what the heck goes on in this bathroom to require soundproofing?

[Azure]

Originally Posted by BlackArcher101

Just what the heck goes on in this bathroom to require soundproofing?

You're not thinking what I'm thinking, right?

[calculoso]

Make sure you evaluate the door as well as the walls. In my half bath, there usually isn't any noise that comes through the walls... but under/through the door is where it comes from. I haven't quite figured out how to solve this myself, other than replacing the door...

[I-Hate-Hulse]

I have the same question regarding the door for a furnace room - could pad the back of the door with Dynamat but I don't think that's code as it's a combustible.

Don't builders just stuff insulation (fiberglass) in there if you request sound proofing?

[Burninator]

For soundproofing the walls I would suggest using Resilient Channels. Metal channels that attach between your wall studs/ceiling joists and the gypsum board (drywall).

Here is a link about them. Here.

Also you can use two layers of gypsum board. As for the door, I believe you can buy soundproof doors, which I assume have some sort of sound dampening material. Chances are that your bathroom door is hollow. Also you can use this strip to attach to the bottom of your door. Here. Not really attractive though.

[HockeyPuck]

Thanks Burninator, I'm going to look into that...

I also did some research and found this Roxul Safe n' Sound batt insulation... So maybe I'll use the Roxul and those channels... I also bought solid pine doors for all the doors in my house so hopefully those will help as well.... Anyways, thanks...

[I-Hate-Hulse]

This was a pretty good source of info I thought...

http://www.hometips.com/cs-protected...oundinsul.html

[chris lindberg]

So, you wouldn't be able to hear a fire alarm if you were in a soundproof room?

[photon]

http://www.audioalloy.com/

Here's another solution that seemed to get some good reviews on a few av forums.