Project Overview: Berkshire Santal Apartments Multi-Family Floor Noise in Hardwood Apartments The Berkshire Santal sits in the Hill Country corridor of southwest Austin, near the AMD, SolarWinds, and Silicon Labs campuses. It is a three-story luxury apartment community with hickory hardwood floors as the standard finish across one-, two-, and three-bedroom units. Hardwood is the […]
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Oct
Oct
Project Overview: Media Room Drywall Soundproofing This project ran during the framing-to-drywall stage of a Westshore custom home build, which is the right moment to add a soundproofing membrane to a media room wall. Retrofitting acoustic membrane after the finish drywall is already up costs roughly four times as much for the same STC lift. […]
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Aug
Aug
Project Overview: Commercial Partition Soundproofing This was a low-disruption commercial partition retrofit, not a demolition job. The membrane went on top of the existing drywall on the parts-distributor side, lifted STC from 34 to 40, and let the tenant stay open for business through the entire install. Total acoustic work ran a single weekend. The […]
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May
May
Project Overview: Warehouse Soundproofing This was a full-stack warehouse soundproofing job across three different noise paths. Floor work for footfall transmission from the mezzanine, demising wall work for tenant-to-tenant speech privacy, and 1,100 Sabins of acoustic absorption to tame the open-volume echo. The same playbook applies whether the warehouse end use is distribution, light industrial, […]
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May
May
Project Overview: Home Music and Recording Studio Soundproofing This was a working band’s in-home studio built into a two-car garage on a mid-sized budget. Wall Blokker Pro between studs and plywood hit STC 65 for sound blocking, a floating-floor assembly broke the structure-borne path to the slab, and 4-inch foam panels drove the recording room […]
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Mar
Mar
Project Overview: NAHB Broadcast Room This was a within-the-envelope acoustic retrofit, not a new build. NAHB needed a corner office converted into a quiet broadcasting space without giving up corridor square footage to thicker walls. The wall stack landed against the existing frame and the curtain layer added the final dB of attenuation needed for […]