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I have sound insulated my wooden floor using MuteMat 3 and the flanking strip that comes with it. However my contractor left a part which is not part of the wall (therefore there is no skirting board) that touches the wardrobe without the strip, and I realized the other day that there is light...

I have just insulated a stud wall with Rockwool Sound Insulation Slab Now I need smore more for the rest of the walls I have noticed that Rockwool RWA45 is about half the price and looks to be the same product. I have been trough the datasheets for both products but haven't been able to work...

Hi I’ve got some Knauf 44 thermal insulation rolls left over and I know they don’t have acoustic properties but is there any point in putting it in the void between the kitchen and the bedroom to help absorb the sound of clattering pots and pans? It’s a deep void so even doubling up the...

...flats which appear to be occupied by students and we are having issues with noise through the party wall particuarly late @ night & in the early hours what are the requirements for party wall sound insulation in this instance as no change of use application was made Thank you in advance

Afternoon all, I was wondering if anyone has carried out a job or had their own walls treated to improve the sound insulation performance? Long story short, we hear absolutely everything from our neighbours, whether its a slightly louder conversation or music, we hear it all. We were going to...

Hi, I have recently had neighbours move into the house next door for the first time since we've been here. This has taught me two things: - our walls are much worse at insulating sound than I thought - the neighbours are very loud As it happens, I intend to fit wardrobes to cover near...

Hi, I am rennovating a lounge in a Victorian conversion. The room below is my neighbours bedroom. My question revolves around sound insulation - I don't want him on my doorstep moaning everytime I put a film on. I've looked into acoustic mineral wool, quiet floor, Tec50 etc and from the...

...hold the insulation up to the timber floor and still permit the travel of air between the joists. However, if putting in 5 cm thick sound insulation slab (not for heat-loss purposes) under timber flooring, where the joists are 20 cm deep, can the slab be simply set down to the bottom of the...

I've got a shed, and I'd like to play a lot of guitar in it, but I don't want to annoy the neighbours. I wouldn't want to get cold either. I've looked at some sites for sound insulation, but there seems to be a lot out there with hard-to-compare specifications. What would you recommend?

Hi All, I am renovating my place and as part of this, ceiling boards are coming down and there are a few new partitions separating bedrooms. I thought that it was a good opportunity to introduce some sound protection. I have done some research and can see that there are extreme lengths (and...

I know that acustic rockwool type insulation is better for soundproofing compared to rigid foam type insulation. I would like to know from the technical side why this. I would have thought with rigid foam, the particles are more compact together which is better? Is it because with acoustic...

I will be building a "summer house" in the back garden and am undecided on whether to use grey aerated blocks or insulated timber? I want it to be warm as well as pretty sound-proof since I might consider using it for music mixing/mastering. The grey blocks would be single skin 100mm thick +...

Hi, We live in a 9 storey building on the 8th floor. Above us there's a Penthouse flat who's bathroom soil pipe goes through the ceiling through our kitchen down to the ground level. The problem is that soil pipe is very noisy. I can easily hear the water running 7 meters away. It was...

Hi, I want to sound insulate the party wall between me and my neighbour because we can hear muffled voices and their movement of furniture, and their footsteps when we are downstairs and they are upstairs. The party wall is made of brick, plastered smooth and clean. Are 12.5mm...

...wool infill, what actually meets the minimum density of 10kg/m3, min 25mm thick. I was going to use a load of 50mm Knauf cavity insulation bats I have left over (double thickness), anyone know if these would be suitable or do I need to use a specific sound insulation product; if so which one?

...else is between. i want to upgrade the ceiling. 2 hour fire resistance is 2x layers of fireboard and skim. i also want to put in sound insulation. i could suspend a new timber ceiling below the existing joists however im limited on head height. if a new timber ceiling is suspended, whats...

The party wall in our flat backs on to the neighbours lounge. He is not noisy but we can hear his TV. It's a corner flat on a road, but for some reason it's the tv not the road noise that I pick up on. As i'm conscious he can hear our TV. The wall must have previously had a door as when I...

I am trying to insulate my house first floor i.e putting insulation between joists so that I can install underfloor heating. what is the best cost effective insulation and what is the thickness

i just bought my first house and am renovating it from roof tile to foundations. i talked to my neighbors and they told me the walls are like paper and you can hear everything....... EVERYTHING through them. even though i don't turn the TV, PC or radio up loud I would like to enjoy films...

Hello, I am looking to insulate a suspended timber floor with 100mm insulation. I have the netting and wanted to use insulation batts or rolled insulation. Most insulation seems to specify cavity wall, roof or sound proof for floor. Does it matter which insulation batts I use? could I for...