Are you worried that your neighbors may complain about the sound systems and high sound level in your new home? Well, forget about it and become a party fanatic and move to the beat of music systems just by isolating the sound of your new home. Your home needs sound checks, which can be separated by equal or different distances from your neighbors. You just need to get an expert sound insulation testing solution to make your house soundproof.
What are sound insulation tests?
In simple words, sound insulation tests can be defined as minimum clearances between walls, which are required between walls and floors to meet the requirements set out in Approved Document E, generally referred to as ADE by the UK government. These tests are conducted to ensure that your building construction demonstrates an acceptable level of airborne and impact sound insulation performance. A pre-construction evaluation is performed and the results are provided for the desired construction.
Understand sound and impact in the air
Sound in air is sound that is transmitted through the air. This sound may be unacceptable in the nearby town. Therefore, there must be a well-maintained distance between you and your neighborhood, in accordance with the ADE rules and regulations. Well then, what is the impact? Have you ever heard or felt the vibration of DJs and other songs? These sounds tend to vibrate the walls of your house, this is called sound impact. Its construction must be in accordance with ADE rules for acceptable sound in the neighborhood.
What is acoustic testing and how is it done?
Poor quality construction and workmanship can cause airborne sound to travel directly between door and window recesses, which can lead to flanking sound to the outside environment. Although the element itself provides insulation, a small sound from the gaps can cause an increase in airborne sound transmission.
The amount of airborne sound can be reduced by sound absorption. This reduces the amount of sound reflected into space by the enclosing surface. This acoustic insulation reduces the transmission of sound to the space from an adjacent space through the building structure. This fabric becomes an insulation between the walls and the air to eliminate air spaces for impacts and airborne sound.
Acoustic test procedure:
Here are some key and important procedures for efficient acoustic testing:
– The installation of all external constructions, such as doors, windows, vents, etc., must be carried out, and the doors and windows must be closed.
– Interior doors must be kept open.
– All electrical accessories such as lights, fans, switches must be done.
– Make sure there is accessibility on both sides of the test walls.
– For impact tests there should be no cosmetic accessories for the floor.
– The test room must be the one where the sound boxes will be stored in the future.
Tests:
Airborne sound transmission can be tested by fitting a test loudspeaker that must be capable of generating sound over a range of frequencies. Sound detection is done through a microphone. Subsequent calculations are made and adjustments are made to take into account the acoustic absorption of the reception space. These tests are carried out in a range of 125 Hz to 4000 Hz.