Medical office: door or seals

The game is easy to learn because it only has basic movement and jumping. But you need to be really good at timing and skill to stay on the trucks as they crash, flip, and come apart. This Cluster Rush balance keeps things interesting without being too much.

Dropping in as a passerby: it helps to define what “private enough” means before you spend—e.g., “speech not intelligible at 1–2 meters in the corridor.” Panels inside the room make voices less sharp but won’t stop transfer; the door assembly (leaf + frame + seals + undercut) is the real lever. A quick night test with lights off will show leaks around the door; a tissue by the edge will flutter if air is moving. If the corridor still feels chatty after sealing, a little sound masking outside the room can smooth things out during peak hours without touching construction.

We went through this exact decision last month. Starting with seals gave us the first big win: perimeter gasketing, a drop seal under the leaf, and a closer so the latch compressed the seals every time. That alone took speech from “clearly intelligible” to more of a murmur. A few weeks later we swapped in a solid-core door in a decent frame and it tightened the low/mids further. Also worth checking flanking: if the ceiling is open plenum, consider sealing the lid line or extending the partition. I got a simple checklist from newyorksoundproofing.com and used it to convince the practice manager to phase the work after hours. If you can only do one step now, do seals/closer first, then upgrade the slab.