Sound insulation on party wall

[True blue]

I was wondering whether a bank of wardrobes along my party wall in the bedroom would cut down noise from my neighbours ie tv noise and talking.I am thinking maybe by having a buffer there will reduce it . They are not very noisy but can be a bit irritating late at night. Any thoughts on the above.

[Toureman]

Yes they will especialy if you get some cheap insulating boards from B&Q and line the back of the wardrobes aswell.

[mormess]

I have a studio with rooms that have 1ft thick filled with rockwool and most of the rooms have rockwool walls, i.e. dead. Even so, doors banging can be picked up on microphones the other side of the place. And then the sound come out of the dead rooms, bounces along the plastered corridors then into other rooms! Even the ceilings are concrete, with tonnes of sand on top, then there's a loft space, and we can still hear people walking around on the floor above.

So no matter how hard you try you can't block sound unless you fill your walls with vacuums!

As Allen says, deadening your room will help but if your neighbours live in a house with hard floors and no curtains then their sound will just carry straight through. Try asking them to buffer their walls too. Also ask them to move their TV and any speakers away from your party wall as this will travel straight through, especially if they're touching the wall.

Good luck!

[Joeloki]

Oh dear! You have my sympathy; I also have suffered the torture of listening to the next-door noise! I only wish that I could be encouraging for, apart from taming your neighbours, there is little effective that you can do. Since, as one of the other respondents says, noise is transmitted through all of the adjoining structure, placing wardrobes against the party-wall will have little effect.
I fixed a glass-wool blanket against the wall and held this in position with insulation board. Even so I had to face up to the ultimate remedy - to move!