How to soundproof a home office in 4 steps

How to Soundproof a home office?

Soundproofing your home office can be a stressful and confusing experience, especially if you have no experience in soundproofing.
However, there are ways you can soundproof your home office all by yourself, and that’s what I’m going to be going over in this post.

Hiring a professional to soundproof your home office can cost you thousands of dollars, but doing it yourself can cost you around a couple hundred bucks, maybe even less depending if you have the products that’s required to do the job.

I’m going to go over step by step on how you can go about soundproofing your home office, and preventing noise from coming into your office.

Now, some of the reasons you may want to sound proof your home office, is because you may work in there.

More and more people are working home nowadays, due to how the internet has changed over the years.

Less and less people are traveling to an office to go to work, unless you have a job where you don’t work with computers. 

I predict in the future, the jobs that require manual labor will also be gone do to robots doing all of the heavy lifting.

Anyway, we can say more people are working from home, and they need a nice quiet work environment, so they can concentrate on their work.

Some woman may be stay at home moms, and they work from home as well. Maybe the stay at home mom has children who are staying home with her as well.

She needs to have a nice quiet work environment so she can get her work done.
Not to mention it is a lot harder to work on a project with loud children, than it is when it’s nice and quiet.

Anyway, here is the step by step formula for soundproofing a home office.

Step 1: Seal any holes you may find in your walls or ceilings

The first step in soundproofing your home office is to look for any holes you may find in your walls or ceilings, and seal them if you find any.

It is best to fill in the holes with any sound absorbing materials like insulation, or anything that’s soft or fluffy.

Anything that’s soft and fluffy will definitely absorb sound. If you have extra drywall, you can always cut it, and place it in the hole.

Make sure to glue the drywall together to make sure it doesn’t fall out of the hole.

You can also place something over the hole, and it can be anything as long as it stays over the hole, and is sound absorbing.

If you decide to place insulation in your holes, you can either use the spray kind, or the kind that’s already made.

I mentioned this in my previous post, but my most favorite type of insulation is the kind you spray. 

The reason is because it’s less messy, and you don’t have to touch, or smell the insulation.

Now you may smell the insulation a little bit, but try your best not to breath the insulation in, because that is not good for your health.

With that being said, I assume you know that by now.

Anyway, my personal opinion for filling in holes in your ceiling, or walls is to use insulation, because it is very sound absorbing, and it takes less work, so it’s a win-win situation.  

Let’s move onto to step two.

Step 2: Put caulk on cracks in your drywall

If you have crack on the side of your drywall where your doorway is, or perhaps you have cracks in the corner of the room in your drywall. 

Make sure to caulk the cracks in your drywall, and that should also improve the sound coming in from your room.

It may not help much, but you may be surprised.

Placing caulk may seem hard at first, but it’s really easy to place on the crack. 
All you have to do is fill the caulk in the cracks, and make sure you dry it, and remove any excess caulk you may find on the walls.

Let’s move onto step three.

Step 3: Install a solid door

Installing a solid door will certainly help keep the sound from entering your home office.

Since the door is so heavy, it will absorb sound, and keep the sound from entering your home office.

A solid door not only helps the sound from entering your room, but they are much harder to break, so if someone gets frustrated and decides to punch a hole in the door, they won’t be able to.

Now I know that’s not relevant to soundproofing, but I’d thought I’d mention it.
After you install the solid door, you could place a weather strip around your door, and that should help with the sound quite a bit.

You may not be able to hear anything at all after installing the weather strip, and the door itself.Let’s move onto step four.

The weather strip is very affordable, and you can buy at your local store like Lows or Home Depot, or you can buy it online on placed like amazon. 

Step 4: Prevent echo in your home office

Preventing echo in your room won’t make your room quieter, but it can make all the other sounds in your room less annoying.

If you have a certain type of floor, or just have little furniture, and your room is big, then I would add a little more furniture, and possibly put an area rug on the floor as well.

An area rug will help minimize echo in your room because it is sound absorbing.

You can also prevent echo in your room by placing soundproof foam on the walls.

It may look awfully funny to have soundproof foam on the walls, but it does work. If it works, then why not?

First you have to ask yourself this question, would you rather have foam walls? Or a loud room? You answer that for yourself, but in my opinion, I would rather have foam walls and a quiet room, than have no foam walls, and a loud room.

You also don’t have to have foam all over your walls, it can just be in one place, and that should make the difference.

Having foam all around your home office doesn’t look good. It makes it look like you’re in a psychiatrist ward, or mental institution.

Anyway, you don’t want to make your home office look like a padded cell in a psychiatrist ward, because that won’t make your home office look good.

It doesn’t hurt to have foam in one spot on your wall though, because that can really help with preventing echo in your home office, and if you prevent echo, you’ll be able to concentrate on your work better.

And you may not think it won’t now, but there is a good chance that depending on the type of home office you have, foam might look good in your office.

You just never know until you try, and if you try it out, you may really like it.
If you absolutely positively don’t like the foam in your home office, you can always take it down.

There are other ways to prevent echo in your home office other than foam, so take advantage of them if you absolutely don’t like the foam in your home office. 

Conclusion

So there you have it! Soundproofing a home office may not be as hard as you think, and if you do it yourself, it can save you a ton of money and cost you very little to buy the right products for the job, and the good news is these products are very affordable.

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