I found and bought a couple of sheets of the sound board, tomorrow I want to start installing it. Can I use just regular wood glue to glue the sound board to the plywood? When I go to screw the track down, will I need to predrill the holes to prevent splitting?
Regular wood glue will work fine. The screws won’t split the sound board unless they are very close to the edge.
Jim
Get lots of glue. Regular wood glue is fine. Use dry wall scress for track. No need to predrill unless track holes are really too small. I used a Craftsman 19.2V drill/driver and set the chuck to ratchet. Never “stripped” one out. Later, I did not set it to ratchet as I found you’ll actually pull the track too tight and I had the “feel”. Soundstop will on “split out” at the every edge and I do not think you will be outting screws that close to the edge. Be sure to paint it when finish putting it down. This will stop the dusting off and also make it hard. I actually put three coats of laytex on the edges. This made them real hard. If you use more than one layer, mis-match your edges.
We’ve been putting this stuff down on my wife’s cousin’s layout recently, and I am impressed with how much noise it eliminates. As a test Thursday night, we ran a train over the sound board, and an area with just plywood. Wow! The one thing I wish I had done on our layout was put a layer of sound board down over the foam board.
We have noticed that it kicks up quite a bit of dust when being cut. Cut it outside if at all possible. It does hold screws pretty well though. We plan to remove most of the screws once the glue has set. Leaving only those few near the edges where two pieces butt up against each other. Oh, place some weight on the board until the glue is dry.
Good luck!
Jim
Couple of questions:
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Seems this stuff is porus. Would an adhesive caulk or construction adhesive troweled on work better than glue?
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Do you prime before painting?
Thanks,
Kurt
Kurt, I wondered the same thing about the caulk. I’ll bet it would hold, but we used wood glue. It’s what we had.
We didn’t paint the stuff at all before putting it on the layout. A coat of brown paint will be applied now that it’s in place.
Jim
Does not take a countinous spread of glue. I just “squirted” out carpenter’s glue insuring I got the edges. In the other parts, just lots of “strings”. With the glue I was using, was “stuck” in 30 minutes. I think the spreading over the entire sheet is over kill. Have not had a problem. No priming as the paint soaks in and seals the Soundstop to stop the dusting of. Also, brown gives the “dirt” base look for scenery to be added. Green would not give you that base. You just want enough paint to prevent this dusting. Too much paint and it hardens the product and might give off more noise. The only place I “soaked”, was the edges. I can get up on top of Soundstop and stand and it will not dent. Now if hit hard with an object, it will dent.
I used liquid nails on mine had NO PROBLEMS.
laz57
Thanks,
Kurt