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Reduce Unwanted Noise

Noise disrupts a peaceful home and can interrupt sleep and increase stress. New housing developments place houses closer together on smaller lots, so it's easier to hear your neighbors. Indoors, home theaters and powerful stereo systems are creating more noise. What's worse, noise travels easily around walls, under doors and through floors and ceilings.

There are two basic pathways by which sound can travel from room to room: through the air and through the solid building materials. The easiest way to make your home quieter is to use sound control insulation in the interior walls. Even if you only insulate key rooms, you'll notice the difference.

Johns Manville offers a variety of Formaldehyde-free™ fiber glass insulation products to meet any need in your home. From walls to floors to retrofit applications, fiber glass insulation provides excellent sound control. Johns Manville fiber glass insulation products have been shown to significantly reduce interior noise levels, lowering the unwanted transmission of sound from one room to the next. Used in conjunction with the caulking of joints and resilient channels for drywall attachment, the transmitted sound of televisions, stereos and ventilation systems can be significantly reduced.

Minimize duct noise, too.

There are three types of noise common to air duct systems. Because of the sound-absorbing properties inherent in JM fiber glass duct board, it can help reduce all three kinds of noise.

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