Noisy floors & loft panels

[pauladza]

Hi,

We've just bought a house and noticed how bad the noise insulation between the ground and first floor is.
As we plan to put down a wooden floor upstairs anyway our plan of action is to put down General Purpose insulation from Wickes between the ground floor and the 1st floor. The insulation will sit above the ceiling between the joists. To do this we need to remove the floorboards. We plan to replace the large old chipboard floorboards with smaller boards.

We plan to use loft panels as our new floorboard. As these are easier to lay than the large floorboards used by the builders.

So my question is whether this is a good plan of action?

Also we not sure whether using loft panels is strong enough for a floor? The panels we intend to buy are P4 grade panels which we understand to be pretty solid?

Thanks,
Paula

[JohnD]

flooring ply is much stronger and more rigid. And it does not fall apart when it gets damp. It seems to me to be a bit quieter as well.

You can get it in 8x2 sheets which one man can carry and are easy between two people. You can get them up stairs and through doorways.

chipboard is a terrible material for flooring.

If you want to keep the noise down carpets are better than hard surfaces.

You can get dense sound absorbent material from builders merchants which is better than loft insulation for noise when you lay it between joists.

[pauladza]

Thanks for the feedback. We were kind of hoping to go with the cheaper option as the loft panels seem to be the cheapest but perhaps you right and tongue and groove plywood is the best solution.

Thanks,
Paula