Wooden Floor Noise Insulation

Floated glued wood floors and nailed wood floors.

Wooden floor noise insulation.

How much noise escapes this way will depend on the details of your building s structure. No matter the type of application a flooring underlayment will treat your room s noise issues. Despite all their benefits the main downside to hardwood floors is that they don t absorb sound very well. Stc sound transmission class stc is simply a numeric value defining how well a building or in this case a floor is at reducing the effect of airborne noise.

For glue down or nail down hardwood floors we recommend proflex 90. Hardwood floorboards can be nailed glued or both. A higher stc means the material is better at attenuating the everyday noise in rooms with wood and laminate floors. When a hardwood floor is installed directly on the subfloor there is no layer designed to absorb the vibration caused by your footsteps.

Nails transmit noise to the subfloor so if possible gluing is a better option. If you have or are planning to have tile or wood floors a noise reduction plan may need to include soundproofing the walls as well as adding soundproof flooring and or ceiling in order to get the quietest results. Hardwood floors are a popular choice for many homeowners because of their classic beauty and excellent durability. Enjoy your new quiet floor.

To further soundproof your floor it is worth adding acoustic grade underlay before installing a carpet over the top. Having got your acoustic insulation and floating floor setup you should already be noticing significant reductions in the amount of noise travelling through your floor. Soundproofing a floor hardwood floors. Walking on wood floors produces loud footstep noise in the rooms below.