Sound proofing my rooms

medical

Pls can anyone recommend a good sound proofing company, advice. . whenever i am in bed i can here the front door open, the sound from the telly downstairs as well as as pots and pans being put aay in the kitchen when i am in bed upstairs. The toilets flushing is a constant noise as well especially at night
i have a newish home
thank you
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cattie

I think noise issues such as you describe are normal with newish built homes as they are not constructed as well as older properties. The walls are usually stud walls constructed out of plasterboard.

I live in an older property & my interior walls are machine brick, so noise doesn't travel through the house.

Noise insulation can be very expensive, so not sure it's a viable option for you.

Have you got decent carpets & underlay, as this can act as a form of insulation against noise in the house, though it will only lessen it to a certain degree & not get rid of it.

leveller2911

medical wrote: »

Pls can anyone recommend a good sound proofing company, advice. . whenever i am in bed i can here the front door open, the sound from the telly downstairs as well as as pots and pans being put aay in the kitchen when i am in bed upstairs. The toilets flushing is a constant noise as well especially at night
i have a newish home
thank you
medical

Try a product called "acoustilay 8 and 15 , search on google for it.Ive used it in B&B,s its very very good.It takes the place of your underlay.Its basically a layer of lead impregnated rubber, then foam and then another layer of the lead impregnated rubber.They come in 1.2 mtre squares, they just sit on the floor and your carpet is fitted on top.
Just one thing to rememer ,they weigh about 12-15 kg each ,if my memory serves me right and they are quite expensive.
Their may be other products around that are cheaper but they work really well............good luck

Suzy_M

As a cheap. cheap floor treatment you could try close fitting sheets of hardboard (the damp resistant type) on the floors and then relay the floor coverings. - Doesn't stop all the noise coming through ceilings etc but it does 'soften' it.

medical

What can i do about the walls?
Many thanks
medical

elektra-2007

someone told me about a rubber product that comes in shets u put on the wall then put plasterboard over it..you could try googling it...Also he said dont use wooden battens for plasterboard as the sound will be louder due to being trapped between the wall and board.

brig001

If you have stud walls, seal the skirting board to the floor with mastic/silicone or something. However non-soundproof your walls are, a gap under the wall will let far more sound through. Gaps under/around doors will also let sound through, so fit a draught excluder to the bedroom door (and others?).

converse

cattie wrote: »

I think noise issues such as you describe are normal with newish built homes as they are not constructed as well as older properties. The walls are usually stud walls constructed out of plasterboard.

I live in an older property & my interior walls are machine brick, so noise doesn't travel through the house.

Noise insulation can be very expensive, so not sure it's a viable option for you.

Have you got decent carpets & underlay, as this can act as a form of insulation against noise in the house, though it will only lessen it to a certain degree & not get rid of it.

Absolutely, ours is a nice large, but modern house, and the walls are all stud work, paper thin, I can hear clocks ticking in next door rooms on the wall! Unforuntately this is the curse of the new-build.

Our our house was solid, all internal walls were blockwork, very well sound proofed and when you put a plug into a socket, you didn't hear it in the next room!!

Good carpets will help a little, but cheaply there is little you can do with modern living.

I guess you could fill the stud walls with an insulation, but that'll be expensive and require replastering.

The_Pedant

It is worth noting that before considering sound insulation you should first stop and think how the sound is actually being transmitted to you.

Unfortunately, for something like a door; a lot of the noise could well be transmitted through the wall and then into the walls & floor above. Therefore to get a good improvement you may well have to cover insulation through both routes. This can affect the cost hugely.

I actually have noisy neighbours and a poorly built house; the problem is that I could soundproof the wall but that won't help if half the noise is coming through the floor joists

You may not therefore always get as good a result as you expected if you only cover one of the sound transmission routes.

nevile

Meanwhile conclusion will be same as above said that to get a good improvement you may well have to cover insulation through both routes.

Norman_Castle

The best sound proofing is by stopping the noise at source. By making your neighbors aware of the problem they will hopefully make less noise. I live in a house converted into seven flats. Quite often when one of the flats has a new tenant they can be oblivious to how the noise travels through the building. If their noise is a problem, I become noisier. I don't actively make more noise, (unless they remain oblivious. In which case I have "accidently" dropped a few things on the floor, remote control, books, engineers vice, settee.) I just do what they are doing and stop making any effort to keep quiet. You do not say if you have spoken to you neighbors but this is possibly the first and most effective option.

Edit just noticed the date on OP 13-04-2009