Floor Soundproofing Help needed

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Hi there,

Wonder if you could help.

Found your website, which seems really helpful. I am not sure however that I have established the most effective and affordable solution to the sound problem I am trying to address in a domestic property. I am looking for a solution that I can fit DIY or employ a skilled handy man or carpenter to fit.

Are you able to give product advice by email or better by phone? I am desperate to make sure I am doing the right thing before I buy the products and committ to the work.

We live in converted flat. It’s a Georgian terrace, converted pre building regs so without much in the way of sound proofing between floors at all.

We are the top two floors and have neighbours in the flat below.

We experience music - including bass - TV and loud conversation travelling through our kitchen floor, from the teenaged son's bedroom directly below. It’s the low frequencies, the bass, that travels the worst. It would appear that it travels even when not especially loud, suggesting that there may be nothing between us by joists, his ceiling and our chipboard floor (covered with lino).

We don’t have any complaints from them about noise. So our aim is to reduce airborne and bass coming up through the floor, not to address our footfall.

We would like to look into affordable sound reduction. We are prepared to lift the floor.

I was looking at combinations of Acoustic Quilt w membrane between joists and acoustic matting on top the new floor, before laying tiles or lino etc. Not sure what effect this would have, for example, in terms of bass travel. One builder suggested Reduc Strata – so effectively isolating the old floor – but without anything between joists... but this looks expensive and not sure of how effective. Another builder directed me to your website and suggested the R10 floating floor system, plus wool between joists.... this latter seems to make most sense in terms of achieving seperation and mass.

Would it be the best solution?