loose fill loft insulation betwwen floors in a flat?

[katie83]

I live in an upper floor maisonette with an empty space between my floor boards under foot and the downstairs people's ceiling. Can I use loose fill insulation to fill the gap and hopefully reduce noise transmission between the two flats until I can afford proper soundproofing acoustic underlay? Thanks

[Deluks]

katie83 wrote:

I live in an upper floor maisonette with an empty space between my floor boards under foot and the downstairs people's ceiling. Can I use loose fill insulation to fill the gap and hopefully reduce noise transmission between the two flats until I can afford proper soundproofing acoustic underlay? Thanks

Waste of effort I reckon. If you can, get some rockwool in the void that will help, but watch out for any light fittings in the downstairs ceiling.

[markie]

katie83 wrote:

I live in an upper floor maisonette with an empty space between my floor boards under foot and the downstairs people's ceiling. Can I use loose fill insulation to fill the gap and hopefully reduce noise transmission between the two flats until I can afford proper soundproofing acoustic underlay? Thanks

If your going to do that, it's best to use chicken wire and place it between the floor joists/ their ceiling joists and form a basket then put R33 wrock wool slabs in ( fire proof ) it will damping the sound and all so act as a 1/2 hour fire protection. so if theres a fire below you you've have time to get the hell out of there.

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