The most important issue here is WHY ARE DEVELOPERS ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH SUB STANDARD WORK. You don't just buy the place. You have to factor the cost of soundproofing. Building regulations in the UK change every year. It's ridiculous.
This opened my eyes. My townhouse was built in 1912 and has double brick between the units. I (wrongly) assumed that current code was much better at fire and noise separation. That construction may have met minimum code but it sure looked shoddy.
I've been looking into this solution. I talked to lots of different people and my reading is the foam is an excellent thermal insulation but not so good as an audio insulator. The reason being is that the foam expands and touches both sides of the wall and thus carrys sound. Dense material with airgaps is a more effective audio insulator. Have any youtubers out there had the foam insulation on retro fitted to a weatherboard home? How was the sound insulation?
Mike usually works as a general contractor, but usually bring in professionals/experts at what they do. Mike's been working for a number of years, and he's not a jack of all trades/master of none.
In desperate need of some feedback. What kinda of tools make it easier to cut through this type of drywall cuz that metal sheet makes it hard as hell to cut the lights out. And we're working with the 545 type which is the thickest there is!!!!!
@gargamel55 Not sure if Holmes on Homes is still broadcast in Canada (where he's from), because they cancelled his show on Discovery (much to my disappointment) about 2 years when one of the 8000 'Discovery' channels became "Planet Green" (which is a 24hr joke). But what he did is basically go around and fix the houses of people that had been screwed, robbed, abandoned, etc etc by a contractor or construction company. worst of the worst cases. 99.99% of the time, for free (paid by advertisers
Holmes on Homes gets us more spray foam referrals than anybody. A testimate to how great the product is! Check out my Spray Foam Facts video is you get a chance!
Oh the background music when they are talking. It's "americanized" already. Canadian version was so much more simpler and easy on you. Hope they never do this to 'Restaurant Makeover'.
@pmcool99 lets send holmes a email to verify this guy , this dude is sketchy since everyone's trusting holmes and he "claim's" hes part of it , people gotta be skeptical with these people!!!!!
