Soundproofing East Village
The East Village is tenement buildings from the 1880s and 1900s, bars and venues along Avenue A and St Marks, and railroad apartments with walls that were never meant to separate households. It is one of the noisiest residential areas we work in.
What we are called for in East Village
Late night street and bar noise
The bars, the venues and the crowds outside them run until the early hours. Windows are the only barrier, and in tenement buildings they are usually original and poorly sealed.
Tenement party walls
Walls between apartments are often a single thickness of plaster on lath, with no cavity and no insulation behind it. Normal conversation passes through easily.
Restaurant exhaust and plant
Ground floor kitchens run extraction and refrigeration up shafts and the rear facade, which puts plant noise directly outside bedroom windows all evening.
Working in East Village buildings
Tenement construction is inconsistent, sometimes between floors of the same building, so we inspect before we specify. The buildings are also small, with no freight elevator and narrow stairs, and materials and sequencing are planned around that.
Services available in East Village
- Wall Soundproofing
- Window Soundproofing
- Ceiling Soundproofing
- Floor Soundproofing
- Residential Soundproofing
- Acoustic Treatment
Nearby areas we cover
- Soundproofing Greenwich Village, Manhattan
- Soundproofing SoHo, Manhattan
- Soundproofing Chelsea, Manhattan
- Soundproofing Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- Soundproofing Midtown, Manhattan
Soundproofing services in East Village
As a soundproofing contractor East Village residents call in, the brief is nearly always the same: a window onto a bar and a wall that stops nothing. Apartment soundproofing East Village buildings need is a decoupled wall plus sealed glazing, and residential soundproofing East Village owners ask for rarely needs anything more complicated than those two done properly.
Commercial soundproofing East Village businesses need is about obligations upward and outward, since bars and restaurants here sit underneath occupied apartments. Where a small venue sounds harsh inside, acoustic treatment East Village spaces need is separate from, and much cheaper than, isolation.
The noise reduction East Village tenants and owners get is limited by how little room there is to work with, and we are clear about the inches a decoupled wall costs. As a soundproofing company East Village landlords and tenants can both deal with, we quote the reversible options as well as the structural ones.
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