Greetings,

The office we rented is a residential townhome with traditional wood doors. We have several employees that sit in front or near a common restroom. The door to the restroom has slits and basically every little sounds comes through the door. I would like to buy a new door and possibly sound proof it so that people can attend to their business in peace.

Any suggestions on what kind of door and added sound proofing that I can purchase from HomePro?

THank you.

A solid core door, cut to minimize gaps, works well. The heavier, the better.

Hopefully this residential bathroom has other forms of ventilation beside the slatted door.

As IMHO suggests, a solid core door.

Could also add foam pad or wool felt to where the door makes contact with the jamb preclude it also being a sound transmission path.

In addition, most Thais just run water into a bucket to cover the noise they might make.

The western equivalent would be to add a noisy exhaust fan to produce the necessary 'white noise'.

solid wooden door, the trick with "sound proofing" is to add "mass"

Glue a load of these on the door.

They work eggtremely well.

I'd like to know what the OP eventually does.

Hopefully it's not like what in the US end up doing, hang a sign that says "Out of Order"

Glue a load of these on the door.

They work eggtremely well.

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And then everyone will know where the rotten-egg smell came from.

Glue a load of these on the door.

They work eggtremely well.

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I tried to sound proof a bed room that way when I had aspirations of being a rock star so I could practice guitar at loud volume, still got smacked around the head by my old fella for making a noise at 3 in the morning LOL

In the late '80s our IT department commandeered the building's former breakroom to use as the common space for our IT manager, 2 programmers, and me (the do everything else guy).

The original room was tiled floor with wood panel walls that had been painted over at lease 4 times. So when we fired up the HP3000 Hard Drives, Vacuum-assist Tape Drives, and High-Speed production Line Printers, the noise would bounce between the walls and the floor. I liked it. The Programmers and the IT Manager, however...

Our IT manager had the bright idea of having me cover the walls with few thousand dollars worth of noise-reduction foam wall covering (egg-carton style like that used in recording studios) and carpet some of the floor.

It may have helped. I only remember that the room was a LOT warmer with those stupid black pieced of foam on the wall.

We had better luck after we purchased sound enclosure cabinets for the High Speed Line Printers.

Years later I worked in as an engineer in an AM/FM Broadcast Studio. 300lb solid wood doors with 1ft thick air-gap glass windows connecting all the studios. Old school.