It’s easy to overlook noise control.
After all, you can’t tell from a set of blueprints that the rooms in your home will lack privacy, that what happens in the powder room will be heard in the dining room, or that your neighbors will sound like they’ve moved in with you. And some traditional soundproofing solutions just don’t work very well.
QuietRock is the original soundproof drywall, and remains the category leader.
It has true score-and-snap panels and the broadest range of panel types and accessories for noise control.
In 2003, QuietRock used constrained-layer damping to build noise control right into drywall.
An elegant solution in which a thin layer of viscoelastic polymer helps convert sound energy into kinetic energy, reducing noise by 70% or more.
That makes a single sheet of QuietRock as effective as 8 - 12 sheets of regular drywall. Enough to silence loud speech in a basic scenario, all the way up to handling movie theater or jet engine sound in more intensive installations.
That’s more effective than resilient channels or sound clips, than mass-loaded vinyl, or any of the other soundproofing solutions used in construction prior to the 2003 creation of QuietRock.
RESOURCES
NOISE CONTROL FOR CONTRACTORS
SOUND DESIGN GUIDE