Dear Natalie,
I read your tips with great interest.
My shop is on the ground floor, downstairs from a computer college. The
building has double brick (cavity) walls, a extra reinforced concrete slab
(350mm thick) at 3.650m above the ground floor slab.
I've re-screeded the workshop floor and will have an old carpet to cover it
so as to dampen the reflected sound.
Unfortunately the slab above really transmits sound/vibrations quite
efficiently through itself. The windows (1m high) are set at 2.650m and go
up to the lower side of the slab, on the South side of the shop.
I have the dust collector on the outside of the South wall (in the car
park).
Do you think a suspended ceiling (of chip-board on battens) and something
similar on the walls would dampen the sound transmission?
Would a layer of chipboard under the machine help any?
As I have two airconditioner openings (and two very old airconditioning
units) to let air in, so I may put a layer of poly-carb over the windows (if
I can get enough air through the dust collection system).
Thanks for your input.
Anthony
