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Increasing your isolation by decreasing leakage

Increasing your isolation by decreasing leakage

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Increasing your isolation by decreasing leakage

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Isolation cannot be achieved by mass alone. In many ways sound is like water and has to be treated that way. If there are any gaps within the room that would let water out, so it will with sound too. Leakage like this is called flank and transmission. Because it flanks or gets around the isolation defenses of the room, such as the walls. Here are the things that can be done to decrease flanking transmission. Make sure that the walls go from the floor all the way to the structural ceiling. If you have any gaps at all, your isolation has been defeated. Make sure that every seam is caulked so that there are no openings. Using acoustic sealant that's resilient and non setting like OSI SC-175. It's also possible to use rubbery caulk. Or bathtub tile sealant that's available at Home Depot and other big box stores, but it won't work as well. Make sure you apply multiple caulk layers on partitions where sound isolation is critical. This helps ensure that a quality seal is attained by doubling…

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