Soundproof Wall

[Midas]

Depends on how thick you want the wall to be. Maybe you can build a lightweight concrete wall?

 

[cattis]

Does anyone know if it's possible to check afterwards if the wall is really insulated without tearing it down??

 

[Midas]

Just knocking on it is enough to clearly hear if it's insulated or not. It's best if you’re there to see that they actually install the insulation in the wall before they screw on the outer layer. A tip is maybe to install web cameras in parts of the house so that you can follow the construction process in real time?

 

[cattis]

Thanks. Now I have run around and knocked on the walls, hm it sounds dull in all of them but definitely not like dull....

 

[Sweli]

We plan to take a vacation during the construction period and feed the carpenters with coffee, sandwiches, and buns so they have the energy to work ;D
Then we will have a camera in hand and take pictures while they work, to post on our website.
Don't you think they'll try to do a good job if they know their picture will be online ;D ;D ;D

 

[cattis]

I've heard about a team of carpenters who plastered their food scraps into the wall... but that's really sick

 

[IngvarW]

In a gatepost I built a few years ago, I included a laminated document that described a bit about who we are/were living there and some other fun info. It's common to also throw in a newspaper in walls, etc. Hopefully, it's more common than old food,

Regards, Ingvar

 

[Lill]

It is very exciting for future generations to find documentation from times gone by. I reupholstered a sofa from the late 1700s and found under the fabric a small square of the original fabric that someone had placed there. It actually felt like a message... So leave traces behind if you do something... it's so easy to write something or hide a small message etc.

 

[KarlXII]

We have placed a letter with a CD-ROM of construction pictures plus some pictures of us under a gypsum board.
Hope a nail doesn't come through right there

 

[General_Failure]

We have placed a letter with a CD-ROM with construction pictures plus some pictures of us behind a drywall.
Hope that a nail doesn't end up right there

Hope that there are still some CD readers left when someone tears down the drywall and finds a strange plastic object from the Stone Age... ...or that someone tears down the drywall within 20 years (the approximate lifespan of a CD).

In our previous apartment, the construction workers amused themselves by drawing obscene pictures on the walls. Quite fun actually.

 

[ymca]

In cases where CD-Rom discs are used, one might consider including documentation about the type of discs and the data format.

Imagine finding an old reel-to-reel tape from the 70s today. I wouldn't have a clue what to do with it.

 

[KarlXII]

Banned killjoys >

 

[cattis]

Well, they've also sent stuff up into space, including the elements with codes, as if a Martian could read letters, and there were apparently pictures of a man and a woman too, they'll probably be scared to death!! hihi

 

[C]

We have written little messages here and there in the house.
Hope it's future great-great-grandchildren who are tearing down to rebuild. (don't even have kids yet but one can dream, right)

 

[Jonas_O]

Funny idea to embed a message. Renovated a log house at an old croft the past two summers and you find a lot of interesting things.

Nice of Sweli to treat the carpenters to a fika, but don't be too friendly if you're paying them by the hour. The hours fly by quickly when you're having a good time .

Does anyone know how much insulation you should have in the interior wall and between the joist layer? 45-70-95?