How to make soundproof ceilings in the apartment?

Many modern buildings, despite the assurances of construction companies, can not please the residents with high-quality soundproofing. Old buildings in general in 90% of cases are concrete boxes, where it is practically possible to clearly hear each neighbor's word. If you get behind the wall too active and restless people, endlessly turning on the full volume of music boxes with TVs, then the city life turns into anguish. Scandals or the call of the district police officer are of little use. This problem can not be solved without a small repair and a good sound insulation system for the ceiling. Here's a good example of how to make soundproof ceilings in an apartment with the most affordable means.

Sound insulation of the ceiling with your own hands

  1. The installation of suspended ceilings can not be carried out without a water or laser level. Turn on the device, make adjustments, apply marks in the corner of the room.
  2. Next, we had to move the tape measure upwards, taking into account necessarily the thickness of the insulation material and the approximate height of the frame.
  3. Using a marking cord, apply even lines to the plaster or concrete.
  4. Now there will be no problems with fixing along the perimeter of the UD profile.
  5. In a brick or concrete wall it is better to hammer in high-quality dowels. First we drill holes of the right size.
  6. We insert a plastic dowel.
  7. A hammer easily clogs the screw and UD reliably put in place. By the way, usually in the shop profile already manufacturers made holes, so with the marking of complexities does not arise.
  8. The UD profile is fixed around the perimeter of the room. The first part of the soundproofing of the ceiling is over.
  9. Now you need to know the length of the workpiece from the CD profile.
  10. The galvanized material is cut with ordinary metal scissors.
  11. We put the workpiece in the grooves and attach the profile.
  12. On the ceiling is better to withstand the interval between the CD exactly 40 cm.
  13. Mount the anchor suspension.
  14. Preparing to install CD profiles is almost complete.
  15. First, you need to pull the cord to make the ceiling even. It can be tied to a self-tapping screw in profile.
  16. Now, on the cord, we put the CD almost perfectly smoothly.
  17. We conclude with the rule of making the frame. The second part of the soundproofing of the ceiling came to an end.
  18. We pass directly to the noise insulation. For this purpose, we buy quality mineral wool in rolls. We run the material neatly into the space between the profiles and the draft ceiling.
  19. Excess cotton wool is easily cut off with a knife near the wall.
  20. Gradually fill the entire area with mineral wool.
  21. This soundproofing material is very elastic and lightweight, it is enough to press it with bent tips of the suspensions holding our CD profile.
  22. We close the ceiling with gypsum boards, screwing them with screws.
  23. Sound insulation and insulation of the ceiling are completed, it remains to make finishing work, choosing the decorative material to your liking.

Methods of soundproofing the ceiling in the house

Noise isolation of houses can now be carried out by different methods, because the construction market is crowded with materials for any price and taste. There are specially designed soundproofing panels or sandwich panels based on gypsum fiber and mineral wool, which do a good job with this problem. Some of them are already decorated with wallpaper or fabric, so no finishing is required. Naturally, some types of new materials have so far inflated prices, so not every ordinary resident of high-rise buildings can buy them. We advise, on occasion, to combine this type of work with the insulation of housing. This can easily be done with ordinary mineral wool, as in our case, constructing an excellent suspended ceiling with soundproofing. Thus, the owners receive a warm thermos bottle instead of a cold apartment, in which a strange noise will hardly penetrate.