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The most fundamental difference between home soundproofing and hotel soundproofing lies in the management units. Home buildings are managed on a household basis, with the property management company acting as an assistant, making it impossible to plan the interior decoration of a home in a unified manner. Hotel buildings, on the other hand, are managed on a company basis, allowing the hotel manager to plan the decoration and soundproofing of the entire building.
This difference alone leads to the question of whether household noise and hotel noise can be avoided at their source.
Benefits of unified building management for sound insulation:
1. Noise from upstairs will be avoided. The biggest source of noise in a home is upstairs. Five-star hotels like to lay carpets in guest rooms and corridors and provide lightweight cotton slippers. These small details can completely prevent noise interference from guests walking and dragging suitcases. With such measures, there is no need to install soundproof ceilings.
2. Noise-sensitive functional areas are designated. Hotels typically have many function halls, meeting rooms, restaurants, and recreational/gym areas. During the initial planning stages, hotels demarcate these noisy areas, keeping them away from guest rooms to avoid noise disturbance. However, in residential buildings, if elevator shafts and downstairs children's and play areas are not properly planned, such as bedrooms being close to...
3. Unified room layout across floors. In residential buildings, room layouts may be altered for personal reasons, leading to noise disturbances between floors due to differing functions-for example, your bedroom might be above someone else's living room. Hotels, however, can mandate that all rooms have the same layout, reducing the likelihood of noise pollution.
The detailed design of hotel rooms also helps to avoid noise, and these details are often not done in home decoration.
1. Hotel beds generally use soft cushions, which helps to block noise from the next room.
2. Installing electrical outlets within the wall panel does not damage the original building structure. In home renovations, electrical outlets are often shared between adjacent rooms, which thins the wall and allows noise to seep in.
3. Five-star hotels generally use soundproofing for their drainage pipes, so you won't be disturbed no matter what time you check in or wash up.
4. Five-star hotel exhaust fans also adopt low-noise treatment, and the 24-hour ventilation will not disturb the guests' rest.
5. Curtains in five-star hotels are also a form of sound insulation.
The difficulty in implementing soundproofing in a home lies not in the design of a single house, but in the fact that we have little control over the acoustic planning of the entire building. Here, we hope that our lovely architects can increase their knowledge of acoustics, thus preventing much noise from the very basic construction of the building. For example, elevator shafts should be located far from residential buildings; ensure adequate greenery in the community (greenery acts as a natural sound barrier); air conditioner outdoor units should not be mounted on walls; and in residential buildings with a strong sense of structure, measures should be taken to prevent the propagation of structural sound at locations where equipment attached to walls and floors may cause sound transmission, and at areas frequently subjected to impacts and vibrations.