mikeyr
Well-known member
This weekend I am building a compressor shed and was wondering the quietest way to finish the inside (within cost reasons).
I am building a 4x5x8tall shed for my Champion 5HP, its a big space but I figure that will help keep it from getting too hot as it will have lots of ventilation room. I also will have a small bathroom type fan near the top of the shed to exhaust the heat and cold air will be drawn from inside the garage, not the ideal cold air intake but the goal is to make is to make it as quiet as possible to the neighbors. The exhaust will **** through a few baffles in a box and I may experiment with baffled intake from the outside but I feel just drawing in the air from the garage is good enough.
The 3 walls will be built with 2x6 top and bottom plates and staggered 2x4's so the "inside wall" will not touch the "outside wall" from what I have read that will minimize vibrations and noise transmissions to the outside, I will have standard glass insulation snaked between the 2x4's, my question is what to put on the inside, I was thinking just standard drywall but is there something better ? The garage outside wall is done with those concrete siding boards (cant think of the name) and I am concerned that the compressor noise will bounce off those boards and make the thing really noisy, should I cover those with drywall as well as the 3 outside walls ?
My goal is to make what I already consider to be a very quiet compressor, near silent to the neighbors so that if I want to work late at night I can AND I wont piss them off anymore by forgetting to shut off the compressor and having it cycle at 3AM.
I installed a pocket door in the garage wall this past weekend so I can have access to the compressor from the inside and if it gets too hot in there, I can always open that door for extra cooling when its running. And I will move the intake air filter on the compressor motor since I have read that will help a lot.
I am building a 4x5x8tall shed for my Champion 5HP, its a big space but I figure that will help keep it from getting too hot as it will have lots of ventilation room. I also will have a small bathroom type fan near the top of the shed to exhaust the heat and cold air will be drawn from inside the garage, not the ideal cold air intake but the goal is to make is to make it as quiet as possible to the neighbors. The exhaust will **** through a few baffles in a box and I may experiment with baffled intake from the outside but I feel just drawing in the air from the garage is good enough.
The 3 walls will be built with 2x6 top and bottom plates and staggered 2x4's so the "inside wall" will not touch the "outside wall" from what I have read that will minimize vibrations and noise transmissions to the outside, I will have standard glass insulation snaked between the 2x4's, my question is what to put on the inside, I was thinking just standard drywall but is there something better ? The garage outside wall is done with those concrete siding boards (cant think of the name) and I am concerned that the compressor noise will bounce off those boards and make the thing really noisy, should I cover those with drywall as well as the 3 outside walls ?
My goal is to make what I already consider to be a very quiet compressor, near silent to the neighbors so that if I want to work late at night I can AND I wont piss them off anymore by forgetting to shut off the compressor and having it cycle at 3AM.
I installed a pocket door in the garage wall this past weekend so I can have access to the compressor from the inside and if it gets too hot in there, I can always open that door for extra cooling when its running. And I will move the intake air filter on the compressor motor since I have read that will help a lot.
