Soundproofing Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights is a landmark district of 1820s to 1860s brick and brownstone rowhouses, many of them divided into apartments, with the BQE cantilever and the Promenade along its western edge.
What we are called for in Brooklyn Heights
BQE cantilever traffic
The expressway runs on a cantilever below the Promenade, so traffic noise rises continuously to the houses above it, and heavy vehicles add low frequency content to it.
Rowhouse conversions into apartments
Houses divided into flats have original joist floors between units, often with ornate plaster ceilings below that the owners have no intention of losing.
Landmark window restrictions
Exterior alterations are tightly controlled here, so glazing improvements have to be made from inside the room.
Working in Brooklyn Heights buildings
Historic district rules and original interior detail set the terms. We keep the work internal, protect and reinstate plaster detail, and where a ceiling cannot be lost we look at treating the floor above instead.
Services available in Brooklyn Heights
- Window Soundproofing
- Floor Soundproofing
- Ceiling Soundproofing
- Wall Soundproofing
- Residential Soundproofing
- Acoustic Treatment
Nearby areas we cover
- Soundproofing Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn
- Soundproofing DUMBO, Brooklyn
- Soundproofing Park Slope, Brooklyn
- Soundproofing Tribeca, Manhattan
- Soundproofing Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Soundproofing services in Brooklyn Heights
As a soundproofing contractor Brooklyn Heights owners and boards call in, the constraint is always what cannot be altered: the facade outside and the plaster inside. Residential soundproofing Brooklyn Heights houses need is therefore designed around both, and apartment soundproofing Brooklyn Heights co-op residents ask for is usually a floor rather than a ceiling job.
Commercial soundproofing Brooklyn Heights businesses need is modest in scale, mainly offices and restaurants on Montague Street with residential above. Where a high ceilinged parlour floor echoes, acoustic treatment Brooklyn Heights rooms need handles it without touching the structure.
The noise reduction Brooklyn Heights owners get from an interior window insert, with the landmark sash left in place, is what makes BQE noise manageable at all here. As a soundproofing company Brooklyn Heights managing agents have used, we document everything for board review.
Can you treat a floor without losing an ornate ceiling below? +
Can BQE noise be reduced? +
Do you work on landmarked buildings? +
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