For projects in Sweden
Home theatre soundproofing and acoustics in Sweden
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. Concrete apartment blocks and timber frame housing with tight envelopes, hard floors and cold external walls.
- 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 / Start here
The product, described honestly, for a Sweden brief
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.
Concrete apartment blocks and timber frame housing with tight envelopes, hard floors and cold external walls.
Work reaching us from Sweden is mostly timber buildings and apartments, offices, schools, healthcare, hotels, studios.
- Timber at scale Sweden builds tall in timber, and timber is light. Low frequency passes easily, so mass and decoupling do the work.
- Classes are written and verified Projects arrive with a class and someone checks it afterwards. Send us the target and we will say where our material sits against it.
- Sealed through a long winter Ventilation runs constantly in closed buildings, so plant noise matters more than street noise.
- 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 Sweden.
02 / The build-up
The stack, in the order it is installed
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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 Sweden, balanced mechanical ventilation with heat recovery running through long heating seasons, so duct noise is constant.
Wall, decoupled. Independent stud, membrane between the boards, cavity absorption, two boards. The membrane is one part of a system, never the whole answer.
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Layer 2
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 Sweden, church buildings, culture houses and school halls are hard long-decay volumes.
Independent leaf. A second wall that does not touch the first. Nothing else comes close for the money.
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Layer 3
Soundproof curtains
A layered curtain with a mass loaded vinyl core, used where an opening has to stay an opening. In Sweden, classroom acoustics are regulated, and open plan learning areas make speech intelligibility the design target.
Double layer at a doorway. Two curtains with an air gap where a single layer will not reach the target.
Architects working in Sweden usually need the build-up before the product. We will draw the section and mark what does the work. See how we support architects.
03 / On the ground
The Sweden conditions that change the answer
- Timber at scale
Sweden builds tall in timber, and timber is light. Low frequency passes easily, so mass and decoupling do the work.
- Classes are written and verified
Projects arrive with a class and someone checks it afterwards. Send us the target and we will say where our material sits against it.
- Sealed through a long winter
Ventilation runs constantly in closed buildings, so plant noise matters more than street noise.
- A long country
A site in the north has a real domestic leg. We quote it separately so the dates are honest.
- The housing stock
Concrete apartment blocks and timber frame housing with tight envelopes, hard floors and cold external walls.
04 / Room by room
Space by space, for Sweden briefs
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Containment
Bass through the wall, floor and door. Mass and decoupling, with the door usually the weakest point. Sweden builds tall in timber, and timber is light. Low frequency passes easily, so mass and decoupling do the work.
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, 2100 kg per cubic metre
- Soundproofing materials, 1800 x 900 x 20 mm, 100 kg per cubic metre, NRC 0.85
- Soundproof curtains, 5.5 kg per sq m
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Low frequency inside
Corner absorption with depth, before any surface treatment. Projects arrive with a class and someone checks it afterwards. Send us the target and we will say where our material sits against it.
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, STC 30, 5.25 kg per sq m
- Soundproofing materials, Mass, then decoupling, then cavity absorption, then sealing
- Soundproof curtains, Up to 30 dB
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Reflections
Side wall and ceiling first reflection points at the seating position. Ventilation runs constantly in closed buildings, so plant noise matters more than street noise.
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, STC 34, 8.4 kg per sq m
- Soundproofing materials, ASTM E90 for the barrier, ASTM C423 for the absorber
- Soundproof curtains, 30
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 / Conditions
What the Sweden climate rules in and rules out
Sweden 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 Sweden job with a consultant involved, our part is material that matches the submitted data. See working with acoustic consultants.
06 / Worth knowing
Six mistakes that turn into a second fit-out
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Foam on the walls as a soundproofing measure
It sounds like a small detail until the room is finished and the complaint arrives.
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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
Soundproofing fails at the gaps, not the materials. One unsealed service penetration can undo a correctly built wall.
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Treating it as a generic Sweden job
Sweden builds tall in timber, and timber is light. Low frequency passes easily, so mass and decoupling do the work.
05 / Getting it there
How material reaches a Sweden site
| Ships from | Palwal, Haryana, India |
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| Arrives at | Gothenburg, then road onward to site |
| Dispatch | 4 to 7 working days |
| Freight | Sea via Gothenburg |
| Support | Drawings, build-ups, BOQ and material that arrives complete |
Standard items dispatch in 4 to 7 working days. The sea leg from India is long, so plan the full door to door window into the programme. We give real dates, not optimistic ones.
Sea freight into Gothenburg, then road onward to site. Air freight for samples and urgent quantities.
Questions from Sweden projects
What makes home theatre soundproofing and acoustics different in Sweden?
Concrete apartment blocks and timber frame housing with tight envelopes, hard floors and cold external walls. Projects arrive with a class and someone checks it afterwards. Send us the target and we will say where our material sits against it.
Where should the budget go first on a Sweden 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 Sweden?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Sweden. 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 Sweden site?
ships from: Palwal, Haryana, India, arrives at: Gothenburg, then road onward to site, dispatch: 4 to 7 working days. Standard items dispatch in 4 to 7 working days. The sea leg from India is long, so plan the full door to door window into the programme. We give real dates, not optimistic ones.
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
Send a plan and a section, get a real 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.