Reduce Unwanted Noise

Noise disrupts a peaceful home and can interrupt sleep and increase stress. New housing developments place houses closer together on smaller lots, so it's easier to hear your neighbours. Indoors, home theatres and powerful stereo systems are creating more noise. What's worse, noise travels easily around walls, under doors and through floors and ceilings.

There are two basic pathways by which sound can travel from room to room: through the air and through the solid building materials. The easiest way to make your home quieter is to use sound control insulation in the interior walls. Even if you only insulate key rooms, you'll notice the difference.

Johns Manville offers a variety of Formaldehyde-free™ fibre glass insulation products to meet any need in your home. From walls to floors to retrofit applications, fibre glass insulation provides excellent sound control. Johns Manville fibre glass insulation products have been shown to significantly reduce interior noise levels, lowering the unwanted transmission of sound from one room to the next. Used in conjunction with the caulking of joints and resilient channels for drywall attachment, the transmitted sound of televisions, stereos and ventilation systems can be significantly reduced.

Minimize duct noise, too.

There are three types of noise common to air duct systems. Because of the sound-absorbing properties inherent in JM fibre glass duct board, it can help reduce all three kinds of noise.

• Equipment and fan noise

  
  Zoned systems with fans inside the ducts are sometimes the culprit. However, noise from the fan in the furnace or air conditioning equipment can also be transferred throughout the house via the ducts.

• Crosstalk

  
  This is noise transferred from one room to another. Noise from the television or the vacuum cleaner or from someone talking on the phone can be transferred from the source all the way to the bedroom or home office, causing distractions when you need peace and quiet.

• Sheet Metal Noise

  
  Not only does sheet metal conduct sound more than other materials, it also creates its own unique noises. When changes in temperature occur, sheet metal ducts and fittings expand and contract, causing popping sounds, squeaks and groans.