Floor Sound Insulation Solutions

Mapei has a range of certified soundproofing products available for floor slabs and floors to combat the noise of footsteps including for existing buildings requiring restoration.

Floor sound insulation solutions.

It may be installed over a wood or concrete sub floor and under a wide range of flooring finishes. Embarrassed i quickly turned down the volume and began investigating ways to reduce noise from traveling through the floor my search landed me on a site specializing in noise isolation solutions. Design datamapesilent is our free software program to help design soundproofing systems. Many floor soundproofing solutions work in conjunction with suspended ceilings in order to achieve their iic ratings.

Welcome to our impact and airborne sound solutions for floors webinar page. Acoustic floor tiles these are special floor tiles that help reduce echo and reverberation in rooms with hard surfaces and floors. Using 5 8 drywall instead of 1 2 on the steel studs brings the sound insulated wall up to stc 49. Here you will find video replay downloadable video and a transcript of our impact and airborne sound solutions for floors webinar held at our head offices on 18th april 2018 with sean smith and keira proctor.

Add same sound rated insulation can bring the rating to stc 47. The type of flooring also affects the iic rating too. Not so with qt underlayment. Building the same wall using 2 1 2 metal studs with 1 2 drywall on each side you get an stc of 34.

Sound absorbing floor insulation this would be acoustic insulation that gets stuffed between floor joists immediately below the subfloor. Based on this i enthusiastically recommend quietfloor plus as a cost effective. This video showcases the quietfloor plus floor soundproofing insulation which can be used under carpets. Our iso step floor underlayment is engineered to provide superior impact sound insulation and better performance over other sound control materials.

It can also be installed from the ceiling in the floor below. Adding sound rated insulation can improve that to stc 45. Floor joist spacing 12 16 or 24 thickness 8 10 or 12 and composition dimension lumber i joists engineered or laminated also can impact the stc and iic values by up to 5 points. The denser insulation usually provides better sound absorption.

Unlike other acoustic insulation solutions the soundboard 4 features 4 layers of different high mass soundproofing materials which block a wide range of sound frequencies all laminated together in one board. Even with a thickness under 1 2 it still performs at least 25 better on iic tests than any other floor soundproofing material.