mrsbruce
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Adding to my huge list of stuff I’m fixing this year, is to move and quiet down my very noisy sgs 100litre compressor. I built a box inside my hut, where it lives just now, and it’s quieter, but I’ve decided it takes up too much needed space.
I’m just running through some ideas here, in the hope better minds than mine comes up with a better plan.
I have a low wall between me and a neighbour, and wondered about building a sound proof as possible kennel at the side of it to live in. The space available is approximately 56cm (chucking it down, so exact measurements not going to happen until rain stops), and the compressor is 43cm wide. Height and depth are not a problem. The compressor sits on three heavy duty anti vibration bungs, I’ll make a carpeted baffle for the intake, and an extractor to draw the hot air out, but these are not the quietest of compressors. It doesn’t have a lot if use, just a plasma cutter or sandblasting cabinet once in a while, so I am not seeing the chance of it overheating as being the biggest problem, it will be off more than it’s on.
Could I use the existing brick wall (garden support wall about 2+ feet high to build off for one side. Maybe concrete blocks for the floor, and at the back, wood to the hut side (would be fastened directly to my metal hut side), and wooden roof, with a sandwiched wood front door.
I have some carpeting I could use for sound insulation on the inside, but wondered what else to use (not rock wool, or anything which could hold water) to sandwich between the external walls and roof, then the (possibly) plywood skin, then carpet.
I’ve watched lots of vids on this subject, so I’m obviously an expert on this now.
I’m just running through some ideas here, in the hope better minds than mine comes up with a better plan.
I have a low wall between me and a neighbour, and wondered about building a sound proof as possible kennel at the side of it to live in. The space available is approximately 56cm (chucking it down, so exact measurements not going to happen until rain stops), and the compressor is 43cm wide. Height and depth are not a problem. The compressor sits on three heavy duty anti vibration bungs, I’ll make a carpeted baffle for the intake, and an extractor to draw the hot air out, but these are not the quietest of compressors. It doesn’t have a lot if use, just a plasma cutter or sandblasting cabinet once in a while, so I am not seeing the chance of it overheating as being the biggest problem, it will be off more than it’s on.
Could I use the existing brick wall (garden support wall about 2+ feet high to build off for one side. Maybe concrete blocks for the floor, and at the back, wood to the hut side (would be fastened directly to my metal hut side), and wooden roof, with a sandwiched wood front door.
I have some carpeting I could use for sound insulation on the inside, but wondered what else to use (not rock wool, or anything which could hold water) to sandwich between the external walls and roof, then the (possibly) plywood skin, then carpet.
I’ve watched lots of vids on this subject, so I’m obviously an expert on this now.