How to Soundproof a bathroom yourself?
Are you looking to soundproof your bathroom?
I understand that bathrooms can be a loud place sometimes.
It can be uncomfortable for you and your guessed due to the bathroom being so loud.
There are ways to soundproof your bathroom, and make you and your guessed feel more comfortable again.
Throughout this post, I’m going to go over a step by step formula that you can follow that will help you soundproof your bathroom.
This formula is very easy to follow once you know what you’re doing. When you don’t know what you’re doing, it can be very hard, and that’s just the reality of it.
Doing this yourself will save you a lot of money, and it will help you learn how to do it yourself if you have to soundproof another bathroom.
The best way to learn anything in life is to learn it yourself. That’s the only way to really learn something. It’s also called the trial and error method, which is making mistakes along the way, and learning from your mistakes.
Making mistakes is the way you really learn, and the reason I’m telling you all this is because you are going to make at least one or two mistakes, and I’m trying to tell you that it’s okay because you learn from them.
Throughout this post, I’m going to give you a step by step formula that you can use to help you successfully soundproof your bathroom.
Step 1: Get your bathroom inspected
Before you soundproof your bathroom, you need to inspect everything in the bathroom before you soundproof it.
Inspecting the bathroom is very important because soundproofing your bathroom without inspecting can lead to problems in the future.
Make sure to inspect everything from the sink, shower, commode, walls, ceiling, door, etc.
Inspecting everything before soundproofing a great idea, and you may find somethings that need fixed in your bathroom as well, so inspecting before soundproofing anything is always a great idea.
Step 2: Install a door sweep at the bottom of your door
The second step into soundproofing your bathroom is to install a door sweep at the bottom of your door.
Installing a door sweep will help you to keep the sound from coming under the door, and it will help with the sound outside of the bathroom as well.
Doing this alone won’t help keep the sound completely.
However, this is a great way to keep sound from coming in the bottom of the door.
This won’t eliminate the sound in your bathroom, but it will help, and who knows, your guest might not even hear anything after you complete this step.
If you or your guest don’t hear anything when you complete this step, imagine how much they won’t hear when you complete all the steps.
Pretty soon, you’ll be able to play music without them hearing as loud as you want.
Now, I’m not going to guarantee anything, but completing all these steps will eliminate the sound from the bathroom almost completely.
Step 3: Seal the door with weather stripping
After you install a door sweep at the bottom of your door, you can now seal the inside of the door with weather stripping.
This will eliminate the sound even more after you install a door sweep, but I’m not guaranteeing that it will eliminate the sound completely.
Step 4: Cover any holes that you find in your door, wall, or ceiling
After you’ve installed a door sweep, and weather stripping inside the door, you can now cover any holes that you find in your door, wall, or ceiling.
Covering the holes will help the sound, and it will make your door, wall, or ceiling look nicer.
You can either fill in the holes with insulation, or place drywall over the holes which would make it look nicer than just filling the holes in with insulation.
I personally recommend you place drywall over insulation, since it will look more real, and I personally think it would help keep the sound out even better.
Make sure the drywall doesn’t wall off, and stick it on their really good so it doesn’t fall.
Step 5: Reduce the noise of your commode
You may not think there is a way to reduce the noise of your commode, but there is.
You can either purchase a new commode, which I recommend you do if your commode is old. If you don’t want to get a new commode, you can place adhesive around the commode tank.
All you have to do is place adhesive in between the gaps of the tank and the top of the commode.
This should keep the commode a lot quieter, and it is less likely that people will hear it after you do what I just told you.
Step 6: Install new flooring
Sometimes the only way to soundproof your bathroom completely is to install new flooring.
Your floor maybe making your bathroom loud, and if you replace the flooring with a different type of flowing, you may be surprised by the difference in sound.
I know flooring can be expensive, but it is worth it in the end, because it is very likely that the sound will improve big time after you place the flooring.
Some types of flooring are just not sound resistant, and it takes time to look for the right flooring.
There are many places you can purchase flooring. You can get flooring at lumber liquidators, which is a popular place to buy flooring, or you could buy it at Lowes or Home Depot.
Wherever you want to buy flooring, you can get it at any one of those stores.
I believe there’s more stores where you can get flooring, but I’m not going to mention every single store in this post.
Step 7: Monitor the sound of your bathroom
After you’ve completely soundproofed your bathroom, it is important to monitor the sound to make sure there is little to no sound in your bathroom.
If you hear something coming out of your bathroom, there’s a good chance you didn’t soundproof your bathroom right, and that you need to fix a few things.
If there is hardly any sound coming out of your bathroom, then it is likely that you soundproofed your bathroom right, and that you don’t need to do anything else.
Conclusion
Soundproofing a bathroom can be difficult, but if you follow the directions, and do your best on soundproofing your bathroom, you may be able to eliminate the sound completely.
Hiring a professional to soundproof your bathroom can be a huge expense, and let’s face it; it is cheaper to buy the material needed to soundproof your bathroom than it would be to hire a professional to soundproof it for you.
I hope you found this post valuable in teaching you how to soundproof a bathroom.
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