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Sound proofing is a foam material shaped with holes or waves in the exterior this absorbs or deflects sound waves.
This will show you how to do the same with old coffee cups.
Here's what you need, Coffee Cups A LOT of them about 16 per foot of wall.
But these are easily found where ever hot beverages are served. (or the garbage can next to that place). Or ask the owner if you can set up a box for recycling them.
Coffee cups are mostly made from polystyrene and in my opinion is a horrible compound and should be eliminated all together.
The only way to do this is to recycle it until the point that it is no longer possible to produce profit from it.
And a adhesive, you can use just about any kind, spray glue, hot glue, wallpaper adhesive but i find that great stuff spray in foam insulation works the best for this project. You'll need about 8 -10 for a whole room or basement.
This will show you how to do the same with old coffee cups.
Here's what you need, Coffee Cups A LOT of them about 16 per foot of wall.
But these are easily found where ever hot beverages are served. (or the garbage can next to that place). Or ask the owner if you can set up a box for recycling them.
Coffee cups are mostly made from polystyrene and in my opinion is a horrible compound and should be eliminated all together.
The only way to do this is to recycle it until the point that it is no longer possible to produce profit from it.
And a adhesive, you can use just about any kind, spray glue, hot glue, wallpaper adhesive but i find that great stuff spray in foam insulation works the best for this project. You'll need about 8 -10 for a whole room or basement.
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im just using a plywood board for example on how to lay the cups out.
But works well in empty wall spaces, or as i did for a friend a layer of foam cups and carpet covered plywood did a amazing job, he can now use his basement to practice with his very heavy metal band with out disturbing his neighbors.
Also filled ceiling in basement with cups the sound was reduced at least in half from the basement to the first floor.
P.S Your wall space may be thinner then the height of the cups , so you can just cut them down.
But works well in empty wall spaces, or as i did for a friend a layer of foam cups and carpet covered plywood did a amazing job, he can now use his basement to practice with his very heavy metal band with out disturbing his neighbors.
Also filled ceiling in basement with cups the sound was reduced at least in half from the basement to the first floor.
P.S Your wall space may be thinner then the height of the cups , so you can just cut them down.
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http://www.instructables.com/id/Super-Soundproof-Your-Room-Poor-Mans-Anechoic-Cha/
For sound absorbion , middle tone ( not all ofcourse )
the best " cheap " solution is to use cardboard egg containers , !.
you need allot less of them, and behind them, stone whool
for bass you coud better use a flat surface , like wood or glass,
midd and bass, layers of cardboard, and carpet ,
Hang them onto wood free from the wall and floors so they can vibrate on there own.
but the easyest way is to use , heavy curtains ! ( all the way to the ground , )
think about the garage door ! there often flat and thin ,
so you need to combine the cheaper solutions ! ( als for professionals sound proofing you need diferent types of foam and forms! .)
One problem...styrofoam cups and great stuff make for some pretty toxic smoke in the case of a fire. Building codes state that styrofoam must be covered so inwall might be ok, but onwall is not. It's most likely against building codes to fill a wall with cups and expanding foam.
Filling wall cavity with anything will help with sound proofing. Using cups and great stuff might not be economical though as the great stuff gets expensive. Figure a batt of insulation might be $4 per wall cavity. To soundproof you need to do two things, add mass (lots of it) and seal up the room air tight. The great stuff will helf you accomplish #2 but not #1.
As for this as an acoustical treatment, closed cell foam is not very effective as an absorber and great-stuff is not very absorbant either. You need rigid mineral wool or fiberglass boards. Your construct would be more of a reflector.
i will probably need about 40000
It's not that I don't think that you did it, but that the sound insulating efficiency of foam cups is not enough to do what you say it did. Maybe the neighbors were freaked about the neighbor who had 40,000 hot chocolate encrusted foam cups that were piling up around the garage, and figured that earplugs might be the wiser option than upsetting the crazy next door. Not that you are crazy. No, I'm not saying that. There are other variables involved here, that's all I'm saying.
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seems like the people who are the most critical are people who haven't done anything to contribute.
Your a pro user why?
FOR ADDRESS REQUEST ON FOAM CUP RECYCLING SEND YOUR REQUESTS TO THIS EMAIL.
PLEASE ONLY RECYCLED CUPS AND PLEASE RINSE THEM OUT.
I NEED A LOT OF THEM! SO ANY AND ALL DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED!
HELP RECYCLE POLYSTYRENE FOAM PEANUTS PACKING MATERIAL WILL ALSO BE ACCEPTED!
THESE DONATIONS WILL BE ADDED TO MY GARAGE WALL, AND THIS INSTRUCTABLE WILL BE UPDATED WITH A PICTURE OF ME ADDING YOUR CUPS TO MY GARAGE WALL WITH A LITTLE THANK YOU
And how anyone can stand to drink from those Styrofoam cups is beyond me...
It was a nice thought though. Probably the carpet did more than the cups did. Now if you could fill that space with packing peanuts then it might work.
Have yo tested this out yet?
Great stuff sicks to anything, Plus it fills in the gaps between the cups.
YES it works very well, i did this to a friends basement, im trying to find some pictures i did this a few years ago. They had a heavy metal band called Ipecac (shout out).
And kept getting noise complains when they practiced and had no money. But did a show at some ones house and they used foam cups afterwords they had garbage bags of them. so we filled the ceiling, Then at a local high school foot ball game they sold hot coco and cider so we got like 1000's.
use like 8 cans of great stuff, 4 people took like two days. Later they added a layer of carpeting to the plywood, that there neighbor was tossing out.
They use it to record.
but i guess this disqualifies my coffee cup sound proofing form the coffee cup contest, polystyrene is such a worse hazard then the wax paper cups.
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