Soundproofing exterior wall - siding
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Comments (1)Raviteja19 - Welcome to GardenWeb. I doubt than anyone here is going to be able to provide recommendations that you can source in India....See MoreExterior help - advice on siding for bow with curve wall
Comments (26)Fori is extremely displeased We are moving the round window in the gable above the bow up a few courses so it's not dead center and beefing up the trim around it. The 2 octagon windows down the other end of the house are set in stone (real stone, not veneer) and they are staying but getting new trim. Those windows, the bow, and some metal windows on the second floor are the only original windows in the house and the only ones staying. All of the other window in the house are ugly vinyl replacement windows and are getting replaced with windows with grille patterns to match the bow. Funny enough, last night I spent hours again looking at pictures of bow windows and I saw two where they used stone. We have a 3 season porch in the back of the house and it had a wall of the same stone as the front. We had to take it down because we are stealing some space from that room to make a larger kitchen and I saved all the stones to use them for something. Builder thought I was nuts at the time. I texted him last night and told him I wanted to use them for the bow. They are thick stones so will need to be split. As for the landscaping, the plan is not to hide anything - I just want some year round interest. The previous owners planted only deciduous plants and it looks so bare and harsh in the winter....See MoreSiding for a curved exterior wall (true bow window with walkout)
Comments (38)cpartist Thanks for your input. Everything is already framed and I like the layout. I bought this house knowing I would renovate and had several goals - all met with this design. 1. I saw at least 50 plans drawn with the kitchen in different locations including suggested by architects and designers on here. (not exaggerating about the number of plans - there were 3 different architects at different points and you can see all the suggestions offered on Houzz). The current location is the best compromise of location and cost without extending the house. It's 7 feet to the DR from the kitchen - I can live with that. 2. I am a bather so I want a tub in the master. There will be a linen closet in the master as well as several recessed cabinets not shown on the plan. I prefer pedestal sink to vanities as I don't like the sprawl of stuff on top of the vanity. There is not enough room in the guest bath for a bathtub - it can only be 5 feet deep without affecting the entrance to the DR. We can't change the location of the guest bath either as all the windows are already here. It could have been a little bigger if I was willing to put the laundry inside of it but I didn't want to do that. I went around and around on the guest bath with tub. In the end I decided against it for several reasons - 1. Many of my frequent guests have mobility issues that make climbing over a tub to take a shower difficult. 2. I don't have any guests who would take a bath when visiting so it seemed like another compromise I would pay for to make future buyers happy. I have a second home with a bathtub/shower combo and nobody has ever used the tub. Who knows what future buyers will want when I go to sell - if I were looking again, I would want a tub in master not guest. Maybe a family would want something different. Conventional wisdom would say people want at least 2 baths; however, I live in a city neighborhood with all old homes and most of the homes in my neighborhood, including the 4+ bedrooms, have 1.5 baths and they sell quickly. My master bath was and is on the larger side for the neighborhood. My house now has 2 baths on the main floor plus a 3/4 bath in the basement that we updated to use during the renovation. My house also has a full height second floor walk up attic so there is room to grow without adding on. I didn't expand up as I didn't want a two story home. 3. One of the goals of the project was to eliminate the narrow hall that couldn't accommodate moving furniture, a person with a walker, and the outswing doors to the basement and attic. I don't think the hallway can be narrower without looking weird or blocking doors. The new closet in the master is the second master closet - the other one is large. This is looking at the master from the new guest bath - if we were to extend the wall with the closet, I think it would crowd the bedroom doors....See MoreSoundproofing from exterior noise
Comments (16)Use a sound-reducing caulk or foam on ALL cracks and framing to minimize noise infiltration through the airholes. Put "Green Glue" (it's not really glue, it's a non-drying vibration-absorbing polymer) between double drywall, and caulked with their sound-reducing caulk around all edges in the walls. Caulk the first layer, then the second, all edges. We had a bathroom with NO sound resistance between the next door bath and the office. Just adding ONE layer of standard drywall and "Green Glue" to that wall and caulking all the edges made a huge difference....See MoreRelated Professionals
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