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Underlays and Impact Noise Reduction

  • 20-12-2005 01:42PM
    #1
    Manuel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭


    We've been to many hardware shops about timber flooring and asked about the best underlay to use upstairs to reduce the banging of footfall for the poor unfortunates downstairs.

    A lot of them looked at me like I had two heads. I would have thought this would be in the top 5 considerations for anyone putting down timber floors over plywood upstairs. Anyway, I came away with a few cut samples of underlay, none of which *looked* like they would be terribly effective.

    Then browsing through B&Q we came across packets of underlay sheets of various materials (rubber, layers of paper, etc.) with - hallelujah - actual quoted figures for impact noise reduction in dB.

    Has anyone used any of those products from B&Q or anywhere else? Some of these were quite thick, the paper based one was about 8mm I think. Can anyone quote me the best dB rating for reduction that they've come across?
    Or better still, has anyone laid a product that turned out to be good?

    Thanks!


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