How Wall Blokker compares to QuietRock and SoundBreak — STC performance per dollar, install labor differences, and where the acoustic gypsum premium does and doesn’t make sense on commercial and multifamily projects.
19
Apr
Apr
Mass-loaded vinyl soundproofing curtains hung over the highway-facing guestroom windows at a Residence Inn property under NDA — designer-grade cotton-canvas drape with an MLV core knocking down traffic noise that hotel glazing alone could not contain.
01
Apr
Apr
Multifamily field defect investigation for an Upstate New York property — pink-noise ASTM E336 ASTC plus ASTM E1007 AIIC tapping-machine testing from 100 Hz to 4000 Hz, pinpointing the stairway and floor-system defects driving resident noise complaints.
23
Mar
Mar
Second-floor footfall fix for a new-construction Tampa custom home — Floor Blokker membrane in the second-story subfloor plus Wall Blokker Pro on walls bringing IIC from the low 30s up to approximately 45 across the playroom and master suite below.
15
Feb
Feb
Demising-wall acoustic build for a multi-auditorium Dallas luxury cinema — Wall Blokker membrane on each side of the studs (lab-tested at Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories) delivering STC 65 plus 20+ dB attenuation in the 50-80 Hz cinema bass band.
05
Feb
Feb
Historic restoration soundproofing at The Fenway Hotel — a 1920s wood-frame property in Dunedin, FL — hitting STC 50+ across original 2×6 demising walls with Wall Blokker Pro both sides plus Floor Blokker on the joist system without adding wall thickness.
03
Feb
Feb
Fence Blokker MLV panels installed on the perimeter fence and tent overhang at the Tampa Yacht & Country Club outdoor event patio — cutting wedding-band noise by 15 dB at the patio and 12 dB at the property line, hidden behind decorative curtain covers.
17
Jan
Jan
What it takes to keep one auditorium’s soundtrack out of the next — STC targets for movie-theater walls, decoupled assemblies that actually deliver, and the detailing mistakes that cost theaters their cinematic isolation.
11
Jan
Jan
Outdoor noise control across highways, industrial sites, and construction — how barriers, distance, source characteristics, and composite facade STC combine, plus the planning moves that prevent post-occupancy complaints.
05
Jan
Jan
Ten field-proven methods for cutting mechanical noise — vibration isolation, constrained-layer damping, duct silencers, resilient hangers, flexible connectors, and the enclosures that handle the loudest equipment.