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Hi,
I spoke to someone at your Tech support department earlier about what types of sound solution materials I need to stop airborne noise from the flat below entering my kitchen through my old Victorian pine wood floor. I want to keep my pine floorboards and have accepted I need to raise them and fit soundproofing below for a real solution. He suggested mineral wool between the joists, then chipboard, then two 2mm barrier mats on top,and the floorboards then re-laid and attached by screws through the barrier mats. What type of barrier mat was he suggesting of those on your website?
And how effective is this particular collection of materials at blocking airborne sound? Currently we hear talking, TV and music from below. And is it worth me putting something down to counter impact sound, or will the above materials sort that out too?
I’m
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I need to soundproof my wooden floor from the neighbours below, can you help please?
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EMPLOYEE
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The solution given to you so far will help reduce airborne sound but not impact noise. To address impact noise going through a floor you have to install a soft covering or enaure the floor surface is isolated from the surrounding walls with a resilient layer beneath. If you want to retain your pine floor as the walking surface and reduce the inevitable impact noise resulting from that, you can use our 10mm R10 installed on top of the 2mm SBM5 soundproofing mat. If the pine floor is at least 18mm thick and t&g all you have to do is glue the joints. No mechanical fixings must be used at all. If the flooring is square edged a layer of ply thick enough to support the mechanical fixings required to fix the pine flooring to the ply but fixings must not penetrate the ply which will be on top of the R10.
To improve the airborne noise insulation all you have to do is add more layers of 2mm SBM5 beneath the R10 during installation. Usually three or more layers will give good results.Comment -
