Soundproofing condo hallway door

[JTXR]

I understand that a certain level of noise is unavoidable in a downtown Bangkok condo, and mine is ok except that I can hear everything that happens in the hallway, which seems to be constructed to actually magnify noises.  I don't know if the construction of my hallway door is part of the problem, but there are gaps between the door and the floor and the door frame.  I've put a door sweep bought from HomePro under the door (similar to the one pictured here), but it doesn't seem to help much.  Has anyone had any luck with soundproof weather stripping or other means to reduce noise coming through their condo front door? 

Also, I rent the condo, so I suppose I'd need permission from the owner to install anything like weather stripping.  Would I need to inform the condo juristic office too?

 

[The manic]

I stay in a hotel in Roi Et with the same issue.  You living in a Drum. Nothing can be done except ear plugs

[BobbyL]

Very similar. It is a strange one as the room is very quiet and blocks out everything from the main road too. I don't here anything from the room next door, except like you say when people are around in the corridor walking and talking. It is like the sound is amplified massively.  

[thedemon]

Try this stuff. Cheap and easy to install.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/5M-E-D-P-type-Foam-Draught-Self-Adhesive-Window-Door-Excluder-Rubber-Seal-Strip/332477590802?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=541538434827&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

 

[bkk6060]

That device will do nothing the noise is coming thru the door and walls.

[Daffy D]

Hang a heavy curtain or one of those cheap eiderdown duvet bed covers over the door area.

 

 

 

 

[JTXR]

22 hours ago, BobbyL said:

Very similar. It is a strange one as the room is very quiet and blocks out everything from the main road too. I don't here anything from the room next door, except like you say when people are around in the corridor walking and talking. It is like the sound is amplified massively.  

Yes, sound insulation between rooms is fine, and from the street ok, but the hallway?  Awful.

[Thian]

5 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

That device will do nothing the noise is coming thru the door and walls.

I just replaced my doors, the old one was made of cardboard 5555, (serious)...and very thin.

 

The new one isn't much better though, all is hollow or filled with tempex.

 

If money is not an issue you ask the owner to replace the door for one of solid thick teakwood or so...but that costs 10-15K for the door only.

 

To stop noise in a hallway where it all echo's around you can hang rugs on the wall or a carpet on the floor...or a large rubber mat but cleaning isn't easy.

 

To stop noise going beside the doors you can use draftstrips from rubber-aluminium but again need to ask the owner. 

 

A real door will be your solution i guess, and the heavier the material is the better it works. We have fire-doors in Europe which are very heavy and perfect to block noises. 

I huge mirror or window all over the door will also help. You need dense materials to block noise going through.

[Lumbini]

You must build room in a room and what's called float the room inside the room like a recoding studio . Very effective and the room you float is floated on rubber [emoji445]


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[Beechboy]

A white noise machine will help if the noise bothers you when you are sleeping.

Edited February 24, 2018 by Beechboy

[Senechal]

I had this problem once.  Get some good ear plugs that you don't mind wearing for a long time.

 

(You can even get custom ones that are molded exactly to your ears)

 

You'll sleep like a baby.

 

 

[nisakiman]

On 2/23/2018 at 4:01 AM, Daffy D said:

Hang a heavy curtain or one of those cheap eiderdown duvet bed covers over the door area.

 

 

 

 

Probably the best suggestion here. Just requires putting up a strong rail above the door. The door is probably an MDF (maybe 8mm max) faced hollow construction with that lattice cardboard stuff filling a timber frame, so no soundproofing properties at all. Soundproofing can get very expensive. Back in the eighties I had a business in London that specialised in building and refurbishing recording studios, and a major part of that work was in soundproofing and de-coupling studio and control room. The doors they used for the control room were a four-man lift, had magnetic seals all round, and would come from the manufacturer already hung in a four sided frame. I believe there were a couple of layers of lead in the multi-layered construction. I seem to remember that back then in the mid eighties they cost about £1500 each. Dunno what that would equate to today, but not cheap!

 

No, as I said, the best suggestion is to hang a padded bed cover over the door. It will be cheap and easy, and provide quite good sound insulation.

[InMyShadow]

really? ear plugs and hanging bed covers over the door?

 

You get what you pay for. This is the problem with the hunderds of posts saying ' its sooooo cheap to rent here"

 

errrm yep its cheap all right....

 

 

[inThailand]

Move to the end condo near the stairs. No foot traffic here.