For projects in Dublin
Home theatre soundproofing and acoustics in Dublin
Serious equipment in a room with no isolation plan. The complaint is almost never the speakers. It is bass leaving the room and an untreated box making the system sound worse than it is. Terraced and semi-detached housing with block party walls and timber upper floors. Apartment stock is concrete with hard finishes throughout.
- Containment
- Bass through the wall, floor and door. Mass and decoupling, with the door usually the weakest point.
- Low frequency inside
- Corner absorption with depth, before any surface treatment.
- Reflections
- Side wall and ceiling first reflection points at the seating position.
- Quote
- From a plan and a section, within 48 hours
01 / The material
What you are buying, and what it fixes in Dublin
Serious equipment in a room with no isolation plan. The complaint is almost never the speakers. It is bass leaving the room and an untreated box making the system sound worse than it is.
Terraced and semi-detached housing with block party walls and timber upper floors. Apartment stock is concrete with hard finishes throughout.
Work reaching us from Dublin is mostly build-to-rent apartments, Georgian conversions, docklands offices, pubs and venues, clinics.
- Georgian conversions High ceilings, lath and plaster, timber floors and protected fabric. Everything has to be done internally and shallow, and often reversibly.
- The port is in the city Containers land at Dublin Port and are on site the same day. That is the practical reason a factory in India can compete here on landed cost and on timing.
- Build-to-rent party walls Thousands of units built to the same separating detail. When that detail underperforms, it underperforms in every flat, so it is worth getting right on the drawing.
- Containment Bass through the wall, floor and door. Mass and decoupling, with the door usually the weakest point.
Full specification
Thickness, density, NRC by frequency, fire class, standard sizes and build-up detail for home theatre soundproofing are on the main product page. This page covers what that means for a project in Dublin.
02 / The build-up
How the layers stack, from the structure inwards
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Layer 1
SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl
A limp, high density sheet that adds mass to a partition, floor or duct without adding depth. In Dublin, heat pumps and mechanical ventilation in newer stock, with outdoor units close to boundaries.
Floor, floating. Membrane under a resilient layer and a floating deck, so impact energy is broken before it reaches the slab.
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Layer 2
Acoustic foam and BassBloc
Open cell foam shapes for high frequency control, and BassBloc, a high density absorber built for the low mid range where ordinary foam does nothing. In Dublin, church buildings, parish halls and school halls carry speech and music in the same hard volume.
Behind a fabric frame. Where the room has to look finished, absorber inside a frame rather than foam on show.
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Layer 3
Soundproofing materials
The blocking side of the range taken together: mass loaded vinyl, resilient layers, cavity absorption and the build-ups they belong in. In Dublin, school buildings run hard floors and lay-in ceilings with long corridors, and sports halls are the worst rooms in the building.
Resilient bar. Where a full independent leaf will not fit. Effective, and very easy to short circuit with one wrong screw.
We would rather argue about the build-up at design stage than on site. See how we support architects.
03 / Local conditions
What the buildings in Dublin do to the specification
- Georgian conversions
High ceilings, lath and plaster, timber floors and protected fabric. Everything has to be done internally and shallow, and often reversibly.
- The port is in the city
Containers land at Dublin Port and are on site the same day. That is the practical reason a factory in India can compete here on landed cost and on timing.
- Build-to-rent party walls
Thousands of units built to the same separating detail. When that detail underperforms, it underperforms in every flat, so it is worth getting right on the drawing.
- Late trading under homes
Pubs and venues now sit beneath apartments that were not there ten years ago. The low end and the footfall are what generate the complaints.
- The housing stock
Terraced and semi-detached housing with block party walls and timber upper floors. Apartment stock is concrete with hard finishes throughout.
04 / Room by room
Space by space, for Dublin briefs
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Containment
Bass through the wall, floor and door. Mass and decoupling, with the door usually the weakest point. High ceilings, lath and plaster, timber floors and protected fabric. Everything has to be done internally and shallow, and often reversibly.
- Acoustic foam and BassBloc, 1800 x 900 mm
- Soundproofing materials, 1800 x 900 x 20 mm, 100 kg per cubic metre, NRC 0.85
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, High density polyester
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Low frequency inside
Corner absorption with depth, before any surface treatment. Containers land at Dublin Port and are on site the same day. That is the practical reason a factory in India can compete here on landed cost and on timing.
- Acoustic foam and BassBloc, 20 mm
- Soundproofing materials, Mass, then decoupling, then cavity absorption, then sealing
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, Felt
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Reflections
Side wall and ceiling first reflection points at the seating position. Thousands of units built to the same separating detail. When that detail underperforms, it underperforms in every flat, so it is worth getting right on the drawing.
- Acoustic foam and BassBloc, 100 kg per cubic metre
- Soundproofing materials, ASTM E90 for the barrier, ASTM C423 for the absorber
- Acoustic carpet and rugs, 64 sq ft per pack
Interior designers tend to arrive with the look already decided. We will tell you which finish gets there without losing the acoustics. See how we work with interior designers.
04 / Durability
Why the climate in Dublin changes the material, not the target
Dublin is cool and damp, with long heating seasons and cold external walls, and that narrows the material list before acoustics is discussed.
Cold wall build-ups and long heating seasons mean interstitial condensation is a real risk behind any lining. PET felt is unaffected by damp air and will not feed mould where a fabric-faced mineral product would.
The failure we design against here is condensation behind linings in older, poorly insulated stock.
On a Dublin job with a consultant involved, our part is material that matches the submitted data. See working with acoustic consultants.
06 / Worth knowing
What we watch go wrong on jobs like this
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Foam on the walls as a soundproofing measure
This is the one that comes back as a second fit-out rather than a snag.
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A standard door on a room built to hold bass
A gap undoes the partition it sits in. Sealing is the cheapest line on the quote and the first one to get cut.
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Treating before the room is sealed
A 6 mm undercut under a door leaves a hole the size of a brick. The wall around it is then decorative.
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Treating it as a generic Dublin job
High ceilings, lath and plaster, timber floors and protected fabric. Everything has to be done internally and shallow, and often reversibly.
05 / Route to site
How material reaches a Dublin site
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Dublin Port, minutes from most city sites |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea into Dublin Port |
| Support | Drawings, build-ups, BOQ and material that arrives complete |
Standard items dispatch in 4 to 7 working days. Grooved panels and custom colours take longer, and we say so before you order, not after.
Sea freight direct into Dublin Port, then a short road run to site. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Dublin projects
What makes home theatre soundproofing and acoustics different in Dublin?
Terraced and semi-detached housing with block party walls and timber upper floors. Apartment stock is concrete with hard finishes throughout. Containers land at Dublin Port and are on site the same day. That is the practical reason a factory in India can compete here on landed cost and on timing.
Where should the budget go first on a Dublin project?
Containment. Bass through the wall, floor and door. Mass and decoupling, with the door usually the weakest point. Low frequency inside. Corner absorption with depth, before any surface treatment.
Do you have an office or installation team in Dublin?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Dublin. We give you drawings, build-ups, a BOQ and material that arrives complete, and we will tell you plainly when a job needs a local contractor we cannot be.
How does material get to a Dublin site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Dublin Port, minutes from most city sites, dispatch: 4 to 7 working days. Standard items dispatch in 4 to 7 working days. Grooved panels and custom colours take longer, and we say so before you order, not after.
What goes wrong most often on this kind of project?
Foam on the walls as a soundproofing measure. A standard door on a room built to hold bass.
What do you need from us to quote?
A plan, a section through the critical partition or ceiling, and what the room is for. From that we can give a build-up and a BOQ rather than a price per square foot.
Next step
Tell us the room, we will tell you the build-up
Send what you have. We will give you a layer by layer build-up, a bill of quantities and a date material lands, and we will flag anything in the brief that will not achieve what you want.