5 inexpensive materials and products for sound insulation

Sound insulation for rooms and apartments does not always have to be expensive and complex. You can often achieve astonishingly good results with simple means.

Sometimes it is also the combination of different measures that bring the desired success.

In this article, we present 5 relatively inexpensive soundproofing materials and products that you can already achieve quite a bit.

1. Foam

It’s such a thing with foam. If you equip your noisy neighbor wall with panels like this, then you will very likely still be able to hear the noise from the neighbor.

In order to achieve a clearly noticeable effect, your neighbor would have to attach a lot of foam panels to his wall.

So when it comes to soundproofing, with foam, the panels must be placed in the room where the noise is generated. So there is then a noise insulation to the outside.

But that also means that you can definitely achieve an effect within your home. For example, if you equip your home theater with foam so that the noises do not penetrate so badly into the next room.

Perhaps you are also a considerate person and install foam sheets in your music room as a precaution so that your neighbor is not disturbed so badly by your music.

Why foam sheets can still be useful within a room

Even if you probably can’t persuade your noisy neighbor to install foam sheets in their apartment, such sheets can still be useful in your room.

Because knobbed or pyramid foam, such as this cheap one here at Amazon * , is well suited for sound absorption and damping.

This reduces echo and reverberation and thus improves the surround sound . And that can then lead to less background noise being audible and the room looking quieter.

Also in the Home Office itself can pay off. Because there, foam sheets can help people on the phone or in a video conference understand you better and more clearly.

All in all, foam can have a pleasant effect regardless of neighbors and adjoining rooms.

Possible uses would be, for example:

• living room
• TV room
• Home theater
• Gaming room
• Office and home office
• Home studio
• etc.

2. Molton (stage molton)

Molton is usually made of cotton and has a special feature that it is roughened on both sides. This allows Molton to absorb sound and light.

You can find out more about roughening fabrics on Wikipedia .

Because of these properties, molton is often used in theaters, cinemas and as curtains and wall cladding for sound and photo studios.

You can find molton by the meter here on Amazon * .

But molton can of course also be used in many different ways for sound and light insulation in your own four walls.

For example, as a curtain in front of windows and doors, or as door and wall cladding.

3. Sealing tape for windows

When it comes to soundproofing, every window is a potential weak point. After all, a window is nothing more than a hole in the brickwork, through which light can penetrate the apartment, but also unwanted noise from outside.

Window sound insulation is therefore an important point and should not be lost sight of.

Especially with older, insufficiently sealed windows, a good sealing tape can already have a clearly noticeable effect against drafts, cold and to insulate outside noise.

You can find good sealing tape for windows here on Amazon * .

4. Sealing tape for doors

In addition to windows, doors are of course a major weak point in the masonry, through which unwanted noise can penetrate the apartment.

In particular, balcony, terrace and apartment doors are particularly noteworthy in this regard.

But room doors within the apartment can of course also benefit from a door seal and improve the sound insulation in your apartment.

These sealing strips for doors in various lengths, which you can find here on Amazon * , are very popular with many customers.

Overall, sound insulation for the door is an interesting topic and can have a lot.

5. Door seal

Often there is too large a gap to the floor under the door. This allows drafts to get in and heat to get out.

Even insects, such as spiders, can easily crawl into the apartment this way.

But noise from outside also gets inside through such a door gap.

A self-adhesive door seal can help here, such as this cheap and popular model on Amazon * , which you can easily install yourself.

In addition, depending on the initial situation, such a door seal can certainly have a positive effect on the heating bill in winter.

Conclusion

As you can see, sound insulation measures in houses and apartments do not always have to be expensive and time-consuming.

You can achieve a lot with small measures.

Whether and how well one of the materials and products presented here help, of course, varies from person to person and depends on a number of different factors.

In the end, you just have to try a lot to see what works best.

Maybe you will have success with one of the ideas described here and thus have a little more peace of mind.