I can hear grow room up in my living room. What can I do?

Meast21

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I have hearing issues so I like quiet I do not like sound. My house is firstly insulated horrible through out, I can hear a leaf roll down the driveway. Looking in my basement ceiling I see no insulation. If I put that spray foam insulation in would that help or would the sound just carry through the vents??? My house is very small under 800 sq feet so some sound prob does travel through the short running vents.


Btw I'm hearing CFM fans, but mostly I'm hearing the air pumps. I have many air pumps down there the 2 prong small ones.
 

coreywebster

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Im the same, I hate sound and once I noticed all my grow room noises I couldn't unnoticed them and became more sensitive to it.

Maybe you could ditch the air pumps, because they are loud and go with waterfalls to add DO instead.

Fans are a bitch and sometimes create a frequency that is almost impossible to stop.

Soundproofing is not an easy thing or cheap thing to do either.

Acoustic ducting helps with air sound but not with fan hum.
You can increase the size of your fans and lower the speed with a variac and increase ducting too and filters.

There are a lot of half assed ideas about sound proofing but mostly they don't work.

One thing you can do is insulate with mass your basement ceiling and then add a resilient bar for isolation and hang a new ceiling so you have an air gap and then insulation.

You can lag any ductwork or slide a bigger insulated duct over it.

I cant help with the leaves in the drive though.
 

Gardenator

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First sprayfoam the seams between joist and ceiling then Insulate your basement ceiling bays between the floor joists with batts of rockwool should come in 24inch or 16inch wide batts depending on your layout and thickness of the rockwool is relative to your joists (2×6, 2x8, 2x10) and then cover all of it with a 1/4inch roll of EPDM, it is a rubber roofing material works really well for sound proofing ontop of the rockwool. This should make the sound go away, so you know though unless your basement is partailly or fully under ground you will still hear your stuff upstairs in your house because like you said that isnt insulated well... if your grow doesnt take up the whole basment i would do that same protocol for sound proofing just around every wall and ceiling of your grow space... spray foam alone wont be enough electrical hums and equipment noises seem to penetrate much further then your average annoyance noises... in anycase it will insulate your space and it will buffer the noise if not completely keep it within the space... now you will want to keep an eye on your enviroment if you follow this protocol to sound proof your space because it will be sealed basically and you will want adequate air exchange and circulation (all will change if the room isnt already sealed and will leave you having to "re-fine tune" your spaces enviroment) temps, humidity, air flow, air exchange, all of this is subject to change here so be aware... hope this helps good luck
 

Rayi

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Another thing is to go into the plumbing section of box store. They have a rubber tube that comes in 6 to 10 inch diameter. It has worm screw type connectors on each end. Put this between fan and filter. Hang both fan and filter using pullies. It will make your fan more quiet. My grow is in the basement under my bedroom. I can't sleeping there is any kind of noise. I sleep well because I don't hear anything. It also helps that I can run the fan half speed
 

PadawanWarrior

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I hung my air pumps from the floor joist and they are silent now. I have the ecoplus loud pumps.

Over sizing blowers and running the on lower speeds with a variac really makes for a silent operation, just hear air moving.
I have a similar pump for teas when I decide to make them, and hanging that sucker helped a lot. I'm always listening when you have something to say Ren, and so should all these guys.

It also makes a huge difference to use bungee cords to hang the fans instead of mounting them. It stops a lot of the vibration. Not that I need to tell you that, haha.

My bedroom's loud enough already, but the wife loves the ambient noise, and I actually sleep a lot better since I can't hear anything else going on in the house, lol.
 

MrToad69

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Would electronic devices that make "White Noise"...almost a static sound, help around your home to help neutralize sound for your sensitivity?
 

Renfro

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It also makes a huge difference to use bungee cords to hang the fans instead of mounting them. It stops a lot of the vibration. Not that I need to tell you that, haha.
I have a vortex 10 inch that I mounted to the floor joists above and used rubber grommets as vibration isolators. Made the screws snug but didn't crush the rubber. Works really good at stopping noise from coming up through the floor.
 

Lucky Luke

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i dont run pumps but i have all my fans hung, Insulation and insulated ducting is well worth the money and the less bends the quieter it is. the sound i have the most problem with now is the vortex of the exiting air, ive rigged up a baffling system using PVC pipe and that has helped allot but it would be nice to get that down another 10%.
 

PadawanWarrior

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I have a vortex 10 inch that I mounted to the floor joists above and used rubber grommets as vibration isolators. Made the screws snug but didn't crush the rubber. Works really good at stopping noise from coming up through the floor.
Hell ya, the Vortex VTX is the only one I buy anymore. I only have 6" though. You the man with a full 10 inches, lol.
 
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