Apartment soundproofing question re: adhesive rubber tape

I am trying to mitigate sound going from my apartment in to the hallway by sealing up the airspaces between the door and doorframe. To this end, I put some adhesive-backed rubber strips around my doorframe. This has already helped quite a bit, but the issue is that the door and frame are slightly warped relative to each other, so that the top outer corner of the door doesn't sit flush against the rubber and there is still a bit of a gap up there. I tried doubling up the tape on this side of the door (the side with the handle) and the top, but then the issue is the rubber tape is too dense to "squish down" where needed and the door doesn't latch. This is the tape I bought, which I realize is labelled as "high density": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6G21TTR My current thought is to get another roll of tape that is thicker (1/4") but will "squish down" more. This way it can fully fill the ~3/16-1/4" gap in the top corner, but then squish down to 1/8" in the other two corners of the door. Does anybody have experience with this? Does my plan sound reasonable? Can you recommend a tape that will accomplish this? Before anybody says: Yes, I know that to fully soundproof the door I would want a solid-body door, sound blankets, etc. I am not looking to turn my apartment in to a music studio, I just want to take the most basic steps to get moderately-volumed music from leaking in to the hallway. submitted by /u/budad_cabrion [link] [comments]

May 10, 2025 - 01:51

I am trying to mitigate sound going from my apartment in to the hallway by sealing up the airspaces between the door and doorframe. To this end, I put some adhesive-backed rubber strips around my doorframe.

This has already helped quite a bit, but the issue is that the door and frame are slightly warped relative to each other, so that the top outer corner of the door doesn't sit flush against the rubber and there is still a bit of a gap up there. I tried doubling up the tape on this side of the door (the side with the handle) and the top, but then the issue is the rubber tape is too dense to "squish down" where needed and the door doesn't latch.

This is the tape I bought, which I realize is labelled as "high density": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6G21TTR

My current thought is to get another roll of tape that is thicker (1/4") but will "squish down" more. This way it can fully fill the ~3/16-1/4" gap in the top corner, but then squish down to 1/8" in the other two corners of the door.

Does anybody have experience with this? Does my plan sound reasonable? Can you recommend a tape that will accomplish this?

Before anybody says: Yes, I know that to fully soundproof the door I would want a solid-body door, sound blankets, etc. I am not looking to turn my apartment in to a music studio, I just want to take the most basic steps to get moderately-volumed music from leaking in to the hallway.

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