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Hi, I'm new to this so please bear with me..... I'm laying a solid oak floor in my lounge, and want to put some sound insulation under it to prevent passage of sound as much as possible through to the floor beneath. I already have Rockwool in the void between the floors, and was wondering if I...

Hi,we had loft converted into two dormer bed rooms on rear side and bath room and store room on front side..rock wool type insulation was used in walls and king span type in dormer roof.no insulation is used under floor .lot of floor boards are creaking even though screws were used instead if...

In one room of my house I'd like to remove the plasterboard on the party wall, add some Knauff insulation panels and put back a double thickness of plasterboard. Are there any regulations preventing me doing this? and do I treat the two layers as one, and screw them with longer screws? or do I...

hi all just moved into a new property and the living room is now what used to be the garage (conversion). the floor throughout the rest of the property is original and sounds solid, however the floor in the living room sounds totally hollow and rubbish. i havent properly lifted the carpets...

Hello all, I am fed up with the crap sound insulation in the stud wall that separates my bedroom from the rest of the 1st floor in my house. So I want to add 60kg/m3 Rockwoll insulation and replace one side of the stud wall with 15mm soundbloc plasterboard. The stud wall has various...

Hi, After some advice / assurance of the method Im'm looking at meets some of the 'best practice' for insulating a single brick wall ensuring (if done correctly) shouldn't be any issues surround damp etc. Any advice would be appreciated or just a "yes sounds fine" or "Nooooo" :D I propose to...

Hello from a newbie here! We've just bought a flat (middle floor, but three out of four walls are external) and as it hasn't been updated in 25 years need to deal with quite a few issues there. The major one, as I see it, is sound and thermal insulation, as heating bills in the first month of...

Our house has a bay window with a concrete slab roof. I figured i should probably insulate this. No space on the inside though. A few years back i insulated 160 balcony slab floors on a block of flats. We used 25mm marmox boards bonded down with tile adhesive. I was thinking of doing...

Hi, I've got a small cupboard between two room being seperated by a single skin of PB! My intention is to put a second skin inside the cupboard and use insulation to dampen the sound between the two rooms. I need to batten and board but wondered what distance to use and what insulation...

Can anyone help, I am looking to put up a stud wall, what should I use as an insulation/sound proofer? Ta V

Hi All, I am looking to insulate the ground floor of my house and found this article: http://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/new-carpet-insulate-first Does this sound like a good idea, does the wood/insulation need to breath, if so does this method of insulation allow this? If this...

Hi all. We suffer from a lot of noise in our top floor bedroom. The walls are slopey - directly below the roof. The insulation there looks minimal to me. There appears to be enough space to add further insulation without losing the 50mm gap needed for air circulation. Can I just slide in more...

Guys, I am in trouble. We have an abandoned house next door (well the owner is leaving it to rot) and we keep getting mice and rats in our loft (I have sound devices in the garage and cellars, they are clear). (The houses are detatched). I'm going to put these sound devices in the loft too...

I live in a downstairs flat which doesnt seem to hold the heat much! I have suspended ceiling in the b/r, bathroom and kitchen (wood) there is a cavity of prob 5/6 " between this and original ceiling, can i install some insulation in this space? It would be a bonus if it dulled sound too as even...

...= £1.60pm 2* Double up on the 12.5mm board for an inch = £3.20pm 3* Wickes sound sheild board 12.5mm = £3.20pm 4* Go for rockwall sound insulation = Very expensive I'm thinking an inch of board plus carpets upstairs would provide quite a lot of insulation? Thanks in advance...

...to bring it up, close to that level, with Insulation. Can I simply use 25/30mm of high density insulation, followed by a membrane, UFH and 14mm engineered oak, or will I need to use less insulation (10mm) with 18mm floorboard, followed by membrane, 5mm sound insulation, UFH, 14mm engineered oak?

Hello Everyone I currently have 6x2 joists at 400 centres on the 1st floor. If I insulate between them using an acoustic roll such as isover apr 1200. Then overlay with existing floor boards then lay 18mm T&G chipboard, then lay laminate flooring with the correct underlay, from your...

...DG units with standard double glazing glass? Alternatively, could two sheets of "regular" laminated glass (each of different thickness) be used in a DG unit to give a more affordable way of providing sound insulation? Sound insulation against traffic noise about 5 metres away from windows...

Hi, I'm developing 2 flats in a 4 story building. The sound consultant has recommended the following sound wall lining to pass the sound flanking tests 25mm air gap 50mm stud filled with soundproof insulation 2 x 12.5 soundbloc board Plaster skim This is a big cost item in both...

...I know, but she is happy, and just wants her own bedroom. What would be the best way to sound-proof the stud walls? I was thinking of using Knauf Sound Panel Tapered Edge with Rockwool Sound Insulation Slab in between the studs. I’m trying to keep costs down. Is there a better alternative...