PROJECTS
Palasage Townhomes, Livermore, CA: 2003 – 90 units
Tralee Village Condos and Townhomes,
Dublin, CA: 2006 – 130 units
Silvera Ranch Villas, Dublin, CA: 2007 – 108 units
BUILDER
Pinn Brothers Fine Homes
- One of the top 130 homebuilders in the U.S.
- Over 4,000 units built since 1974
PROJECT
Dale Garren, Vice President, East Bay Division
MANAGER
ARCHITECT
SDG Architects, Inc.
QUIET SOLUTION QuietRock acoustic drywall
PRODUCTS
QuietWood
QuietHome Windows
QuietSeal
OBJECTIVES
Replace costly, failure-prone resilient channel with a
more reliable soundproofing solution
Choose a strategic soundproofing solution that is
easier, more cost-effective and more reliable than
previous methods.
In 2003, Dale Garren, Vice President of Pinn Brothers Fine
Home’s East Bay Division, searched for a soundproofing
solution for their Palasage project, a 90 unit townhome prop-
erty in downtown Livermore, California. “We no longer wanted
to use resilient channel in our walls. That system is so easily
ruined that it just doesn’t make sense. In the field, if something
can be compromised, it will be,” Garren explains. Due to the
building’s design, they were locked into a single plate with stag-
gered stud construction. According to Garren, this configuration
“makes it very tough to get to an STC 50.” Garren searched for
a better solution and found QuietRock. Pinn Brothers used one
layer of QuietRock acoustic drywall on both sides of the party
walls. “When we did the field test, we achieved an STC’s in the
60’s and that shocked everyone, especially with a single plate,
staggered stud wall.” More importantly, Garren says, “A high
percentage of the homeowners, to this day, still comment on
how quiet those units are. We were using resilient channel
before QuietRock and everything we touched failed. We did not
have this problem with QuietRock.”
THE VALUE OF A QUIETHOME
Garren and the team at Pinn Brothers were so happy with the
results of QuietRock