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quitecoolguy

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I said a while back that the good Lord blessed me and I found out around Thanksgiving that i was going to have a child. Well I found out it is going to be a little Girl. Which i could not believe because we Capers men have been shooting nothing but boys. My father had three boys my brother had two sons and i get the girl ...go figure.

Well i bought a brand new home this year. 2700 square foot with a full basement. I have a pool players dream downstairs. I have plenty of room to design my pool room. The basement is unfinished and we are getting ready to desing the MAN CAVE. The probelm i have is that the pool room is right under my bedroom and the new baby's room and i dont want the sound of cracking the rack to wake my wife or the baby.

What can i put in the rafters to elimnate the sound of music and balls hitting. Ohh and the drop down screen and surrond sound will be down there as well Help!!!
 
quitecoolguy said:
I said a while back that the good Lord blessed me and I found out around Thanksgiving that i was going to have a child. Well I found out it is going to be a little Girl. Which i could not believe because we Capers men have been shooting nothing but boys. My father had three boys my brother had two sons and i get the girl ...go figure.

Well i bought a brand new home this year. 2700 square foot with a full basement. I have a pool players dream downstairs. I have plenty of room to design my pool room. The basement is unfinished and we are getting ready to desing the MAN CAVE. The probelm i have is that the pool room is right under my bedroom and the new baby's room and i dont want the sound of cracking the rack to wake my wife or the baby.

What can i put in the rafters to elimnate the sound of music and balls hitting. Ohh and the drop down screen and surrond sound will be down there as well Help!!!
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I have a drop ceiling in my basement. The ceiling tiles seem to dampen sound pretty well.

There is also the sound of the balls dropping in the pockets to deal with. Williebetmore came up with a nice solution to this. He put little round sponges in the pockets.

Of course, the best thing you can do is to only play straight pool so you don't ever need to break hard and loud. :)
 
Insulation works great. I used fiberglass insulation btween the floor joist just to help dampen the sound but I think blown in insulation and a good acoustic tile ceiling would really block the noise and make your room a much better place to listen to music at the same time. Good luck.
 
Some studio foam strategically placed will work wonders.
 
Shhhhh....dont wake the baby

In the process of wrapping up our basement project. I insulated walls and in the ceiling between the joists. I soffited around the beams and ductwork with 5/8" drywall and used a good quality ceiling tile in the main field areas. Can hardly hear a peep upstairs, unless i have the speakers blaring.

Breaks are heard, but very muffled. Cussing is not heard. The only real noise transfer occurs through the ductwork.

Fortunately, my daughter sleeps with a smaill white noise maker in her room (a leftover from the coliky days). We have a several people over to play pool and use the Wii....she never wakes once.

The ceiling tile that I used was not the standard with the perforated holes in it. It is a textured pad...I believe Armstrong Humigard...something like Cashmere was the model name.

If I did it again, I would have considered wrapping the ductwork with insulation for the first 5 feet from the diffuser/grille.
 
Background ambient stereo sound in the bedrooms can help override the sounds from other areas of the house, like the basement below. If you have ever listened to a CD with the waves crashing, or forest sounds, etc , it can be sooothing background that some people find relaxing and even helps them sleep. Just a thought and cheap to try.
 
quitecoolguy said:
I said a while back that the good Lord blessed me and I found out around Thanksgiving that i was going to have a child. Well I found out it is going to be a little Girl. Which i could not believe because we Capers men have been shooting nothing but boys. My father had three boys my brother had two sons and i get the girl ...go figure.

Well i bought a brand new home this year. 2700 square foot with a full basement. I have a pool players dream downstairs. I have plenty of room to design my pool room. The basement is unfinished and we are getting ready to desing the MAN CAVE. The probelm i have is that the pool room is right under my bedroom and the new baby's room and i dont want the sound of cracking the rack to wake my wife or the baby.

What can i put in the rafters to elimnate the sound of music and balls hitting. Ohh and the drop down screen and surrond sound will be down there as well Help!!!
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We've used soundproof drywall in several of our rental units that share walls and it seems to make a big difference.

~rc
 
our_auctionguy said:
Background ambient stereo sound in the bedrooms can help override the sounds from other areas of the house, like the basement below. If you have ever listened to a CD with the waves crashing, or forest sounds, etc , it can be sooothing background that some people find relaxing and even helps them sleep. Just a thought and cheap to try.
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In case you dont have a stereo in the room. We got one of the noise makers from Sharper Image or Brookstone that have 8 different sounds, with the ability to put different sound cartridges in. Has falling water, waves crashing, etc. Personally, I would like to have one with the sound of the L passing by my window when I lived in the city of Chicago. Wow, I do not miss that!

Think the little gadget was around $40. The way it helped our daughter and our ability to sleep....I would have gladly paid much more.
 
We use a normal fan for drowning out noises. We used to live next to a busy road and got used to sleeping with the fan on. There are many types of sound deadeners available commercially for the ceiling in your basement. Egg cartons would work well, too. Basically anything that traps air between the ceiling and the floor upstairs should work well.
 
I feel a little jipped...You don't really need "help".

I would go a different route than sugeested..(but that is just me)...I have two kids and we never worried about normal noise...(a rack breaking noise is a different story...when the kids are asleep you don't practice your break shot...you play 14.1)

As far as every day sounds. TV on (withing reason) etc. etc. kids will learn to sleep right through it...(at least mine did)

If you try and make it as quiet as a library, I think you will find youself haveing to tip toe around the house because any stray noise will now wake up your child....
 
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