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Ceiling / Floor Sound insulation

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  • 01-05-2007 9:36am
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    Patrickof
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭


    Hi, we're moving our daughter into the currently spare room directly above the sitting room. Before we do so I notice that there is no insulation between the sitting room plasterboard ceiling and the bedroom floor above (wooden, laid on OSf boards).

    What are the best options to try and sound proof the room upstairs from the sitting room, a carpet is probably a good idea but is there anything I can inject into the space between the joists (without having to rip up the floor or pull down the ceiling?


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    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,143 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    I think this may be better off in DIY

    Moved


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    cormacmccann
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭cormacmccann


    Generally there is no insullation placed in the floors between upstairs and downstairs rooms to allow heat to travel up through the house and help heat the rooms. Carpet with a good underlay will help dampen the noise, but putting insulation in the cavity probably won't help much as the noise will just travel through the timber joists as vibrations.


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