Thread: More shed sound insulation questions

Oh I see what you mean, didn't think of adjusting it as I open the door. Well, considering this door will rarely open, typically just when bringing material in, that could work. Spring-loaded sounds even better, I've found some gate wheels with load rating of up to 100kg, that should be enough as just support for hinges. I'll look more into that, thank you!

I did mean two doors, an extra one on the outside. That was until I saw the double wide in the picture.

If you don’t need the full rollerdoor opening for access rather than complicate the issue with big gates just build a stud wall on the inside of your rollerdoor and box in the drum and insulate and line it the same as the rest of the shed with a single or pair of double solid core doors built into it for access It would be far easier, cheaper and you can get a much better soundproof seal

Originally Posted by Beardy

If you don’t need the full rollerdoor opening for access rather than complicate the issue with big gates just build a stud wall on the inside of your rollerdoor and box in the drum and insulate and line it the same as the rest of the shed with a single or pair of double solid core doors built into it for access It would be far easier, cheaper and you can get a much better soundproof seal

It's definitely an option, I mentioned it somewhere above. My main problem with that is not the opening - I know I don't need 5.4m. It was more about trying to make something as wide as the roller door so that if I need to make this back into a garage at some point, I can just remove the door behind the roller door and I'm done. If I do a double wall and smaller door inside, then I need to remove the whole wall. But thinking about it again, and compared to complications of making huge doors, maybe that's not such a big deal (and for only a possibility I'll need to do it some time in the future).

Cheers

Originally Posted by igalic

It's definitely an option, I mentioned it somewhere above. My main problem with that is not the opening - I know I don't need 5.4m. It was more about trying to make something as wide as the roller door so that if I need to make this back into a garage at some point, I can just remove the door behind the roller door and I'm done. If I do a double wall and smaller door inside, then I need to remove the whole wall. But thinking about it again, and compared to complications of making huge doors, maybe that's not such a big deal (and for only a possibility I'll need to do it some time in the future).

Cheers

removing a timber stud wall down the track will take an hour or two max and leave you with a couple of fixing holes in the slab. Definitely an easier option than the other scenarios if it meets your needs

I am not a sound engineer but have lined an A frame Titan shed with with R3.5 bats and 19mm ply on the A frame ends so that I could remove the short braces. The walls were lined with R3.5 bats and 16mm ply and the ceiling with R3.5 bats and 17mm ply. I have also lined the swinging doors with R3.5 bats and a 9mm sheet inside. The shed has a main area and then a narrow room across the back where I have a dust extractor and cyclone. The hoses go through the wall by way of shutter gates. If I have the extractor going and the doors are closed I have to concentrate to hear it running and it is only 2-3 meters away on the other side of the wall. This has resulted in a "shed like appearance" with your situation you could probably get similar results with the thick sound insulating type of plaster board and it would look a lot better attached to a dwelling. The only advantage of ply is I can put things anywhere on the walls. I understand there is a product that you can have sprayed on your roller doors that is sound deadening. As for echo I found that coating the concrete floor with a couple of layers of epoxy helped.if it were really an issue you could use waffle foam tiles on areas of one or two walls. . In eateries where they are used you can hear a conversation where previously you only heard all the reflected sound. I can use any tool except the planner with the sound not intrusive in the house. The problem with the planer is I need to open the roller door to feed the timber out the door when using the planer and when in thicknesses mode I feed the timber from the other end. Hope this helps. All the best.
I only just spotted the pic of your ute fall of MDF, which makes most of the above redundant. post a finished pic of the project.