While you might not want your room completely shutting out external noise unless you are building a recording studio, it is useful to have a room in the house where you can make plenty of noise without disturbing other people – who hasn’t been told to ‘turn it down’ at one point or another in their lives? Here are some ways you could isolate your room for sound.

One way to begin the process of isolating your room for sound is to use acoustic sealant. Gaps often form around skirting boards as well as ceilings so sealing these areas up first is a good place to begin.

Next you can use acoustic wedged panels to add insulation to walls. These panels are easy to install and require just a bit of glue to stick them on. Glue is often supplied with the packs. You can install as many or as few of these as you want depending on how much sound isolation you need.

If you want to be more radical then you could use a soundproof construction made up of wooden frames. Then attach your stud wall. The thicker and more dense the material you use, the more sound it will absorb.

You could even fill walls with a damping compound which makes it ideal if you are using a room as a home theatre or if you regularly play loud bass music.