If you like to play music, or perhaps you are thinking of setting up a small recording studio in your garage, you will need to consider how best to soundproof this space. There are a number of ways that you can achieve this, and lots of materials on the market that allow you to do this relatively easily and cheaply. Here are some of the key areas that you will need to think about.

Doors – it is important that you can safely access your garage, and you may want to look at using the services of a Garage Doors Bristol company such as www.upandoverdoorsltd.co.uk/ to help with any issues that you may have. You should make sure that the door fits securely and that wind can not travel through the spaces. There are door guards and room dividers that can be placed across door spaces to help prevent any noise from entering or exiting the garage space.

Flooring – people are often surprised at how much noise can travel through the floor. This is particularly true of wooden flooring. This means you need to think about whether you are trying to deaden the sound from leaking from the space or reduce noise whilst you are in the room. If you want to use the space for a studio, you will need to think about having suitable additional flooring, such as vinyl, added on top of the standard concrete.

Walls – this is the most obvious space that sound can leak from, and there are lots of soundproofing options available to help combat this. In the past, there was a suggestion of using egg boxes to help dampen the sound, and now you can buy foam tiles that you place on the walls directly that have a similar design to that of egg box shapes. Soundproofing walls are incredibly important in garage space as they are often on single skin buildings.

Ceiling – again, due to the nature of garages, there will often be very little to the ceiling of a garage, and you may have exposed beams. You can have insulation and soundproofing added to this space. It is also possible to have MDF boards attached to the beams to create a garage ceiling for you. Once again, you can place soundproof tiles on this to help keep noise from leaking out of the garage or external noise penetrating in.