If
you have an existing wall that you'd rather not strip down
to the studs, we have the product for you. WallDamp Retrofit
can be applied to existing walls in a snap. Now you can enjoy
all the unique benefits of WallDamp without having to tear
down existing walls or build new walls. While our product
comes with an excellent non-toxic and non-volatile adhesive,
you still must screw the sheetrock to the wall as required
by your local building code. |
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WallDamp
Retrofit works with just about any existing wall sheathing
which is typically sheetrock, concrete, wood or plywood. As
long as the wall is a continuous flat surface, this product
is applied the same way one would install another layer of
sheetrock.
WallDamp Retrofit is also the product of choice for concrete
basement walls, with the help of furring
strips. See below for more on this.
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Vibration Control
What is remarkable about WallDamp construction
is that it not only keeps sound and vibration from passing
through the surfaces of the room but that it actually absorbs
it. By comparison, a concrete room is well known for keeping
sound from getting out, but it’s bad for the person
left in the room, the listener. If sound can’t get
out of a room it has to stay in the room and reverberate.
Carpet, draperies and furnishings may provide some acoustic
friction inside the room to attenuate sounds in the treble
range but they supply little to no absorption for sounds
in the bass range.
That is why concrete rooms are very ‘’boomy’’
sounding. When sounds or vibrations try to pass through
the walls, floor or ceiling of a room, it causes those surfaces
and the structure behind each of them to move. When a wall,
floor or ceiling vibrates, it changes shape. The WallDamp
system uses WallDamp to separate each of the parts that
make up the wall, floor or ceiling. Any movement at all
by the wall, floor or ceiling causes a distortion of the
WallDamp. This distortion in the WallDamp absorbs the sound
energy and any vibration is quieted.
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WallDamp
Retrofit on Concrete
When high powered audio such as a powered sub-woofer is present
in a basement home theater, sound is trapped by thick concrete
walls. WallDamp Retrofit calms the room down by damping excess
sound and shocks, so you can enjoy the movie without distraction.
WallDamp Retrofit is the only product available that can
make a solid immoveable concrete wall into a flexible sound
damping wall. |
