The Freedom to Control Noise.

A sound, well designed and well built building is more than design and execution. It also entails using quality materials that stand the test of time.

But as good as a building looks, a client’s experience – and an architect’s reputation – will suffer from creaky stairs and hallways and walls that separate rooms, but don’t separate conversations.

Green Glue products are a fast and easy way to ensure that your next big project doesn’t require last minute delays or costly rebuilds due to noise – be it internal or external. And we have the independent lab tests to prove it.

Let your statement property make a statement. Use Green Glue.

Green Glue and Resilient Channel

In a series of lab tests, The Green Glue Company explored the impact that damping with Green Glue has on the STC performance of a resilient channel wall - and a short-circuited resilient channel wall. A reference wall with no damping attained STC=52, a Green Glue wall that was heavily short-circuited (16 short circuits on an 8’ x 8’ test wall) attained STC=55 with the same number of drywall layers and type, stud spacing, insulation, channel, channel spacing, etc. Based on this work it seems reasonable to state that Green Glue can eliminate the risk of resilient channel installation failure due to short circuit. Read: Green Glue -vs- Resilient Channel

And so the often-criticized, but still inexpensive, resilient channel has a new ally in the STC game. Green Glue does add to the cost of an installation, but this cost is fractional, and trivial compared to the cost of installation failure and the lawsuits / forced re-building that can result. Additionally, the combination of Green Glue and resilient channel saves valuable space and money relative to other options, such as sound clips or double stud walls.

Moving beyond this synergy with resilient channel, and taking a look at STC (ignoring low frequency considerations), one finds that there are some applications where Green Glue is an ideal choice, and some applications where it is not the best choice for meeting these requirements. Green Glue has been fire tested and demonstrated to be compatible with all fire-rated constructions. So, the inclusion of Green Glue does not affect the fire rating of an assembly. Contact The Green Glue Company for an idea of where Green Glue is ideal, and where it isn’t, for your STC-based applications.

The Basic Principles Involved

Rather than looking blindly at STC ratings, this section of our site will look at overall wall performance. And, what better place to start than with some discussion of the 5 Basic Principles of Sound Isolation - the 5 things that can help your walls stop more sound. From there we’ll look at the The 4 basic ways to improve the performance of a wall - What areas of improvement available to you.

Green Glue as a stand alone product

More and more acoustical consultants are concerning themselves with actual wall performance more than STC. More and more, they are looking at transmission loss data that includes low-frequency data. The Green Glue Company has more same-lab full-frequency-range data (including comparative data) than any other company we are aware of, and Green Glue yields impressive low frequency benefits in many constructions. Read: Third Party Testing Results