Reducing impact noise from wooden floor (soundproofing)

abtmay

Currently my bedrooms have carpet flooring and I was thinking ripping them out and installing wooden floors (on timber suspended floor). However I've been to other properties where they have installed wooden floors in the bedroom and you can hear the footsteps reverberating in the lounge (the bedroom is directly above the lounge and its noticeably loud and annoying if you are watching the telly). I have researched on how to reduce/dampen the impact noise (technical term) and found the following:

http://www.soundservice.co.uk/part_e_timber_suspended_floor_R-10.html

http://www.customaudiodesigns.co.uk/soundproofing/isobase.htm

I realised that installing the mats and chipboards will cause the floor to rise by 30mm!! I mean, that before any underlay or wooden floor are installed!!
By raising the floor by so much, I presume that there would be a problem with the doors not able to close?

Ultimately, I would like to know the following, please:

- Has anyone use soundproofing products before (the ones above or others) and do they work? The last thing my partner wants is my feet tapping on the floor

- How do I get around the doors not able to close?

- Beside these products, any other ideas on how to minimise impact noise from the bedrooms?

Thanks in advance

socrates

I am in the process of doing exactly this at the moment if you PM me I will give the phone number of a very helpful guy - who works for a manufacturer

Doozergirl

Shoes off and wear soft soled slippers, surely unless you're an elephant? Otherwise if your joists are bouncy, get those looked at whilst the floor is up. It's the bounce that would be making noise and reverberating, I'm sure.

carlo

We've gone from carpet to boards-the boards all needed pulling up and relaying to get rid of the gaps from 100+yrs of movement so while they were up we put loft insulation down underneath.

Insulation was on the £1/roll offer at B&Q at the time so very mse. It doesn't cut out 100% of the noise but was a quick, cheap and easy way to cut it down a fair bit.