Ground floor flat noise

tina_malteser

At tho moment i have TD on the go cooker hood extractor, tv on vol 42 and music in playing in 2nd bedroom with 8 adult men drinking and revelling, i still here the kids upstairs running back n forth,,
Its a nightmare but mine will pass next week when her bro and family move in2 their new house, i don't feel that ppl realise how bad it is until they have suffered it personaly, everybody has different tolerance rates and it needs a law put in place that flats should be max soundproof not min!!!!

Ionkontrol

I have soundproofed a flat from below.

Take ceiling down.
Fill joist voids with 150mm Rockwool acoustic slab
Fit Resilient Bars to joists.
Fit 1 layer of 15mm Soundbloc plasterboard to Resilient Bars
1 layers of GreenGlue compound.
Another layer of Soundbloc plasterboard.
Seal perimeter with acoustic sealant.
Plaster, and paint.

Made a really big difference and it got rid of that carp artex.
I did everything bar the plastering, as the materials do add up.

Torry_Quine

I hear general noises from upstairs, have heard the mobile phone ring. However it's just part of flat living to me and when I'm on my own it can be quite reassuring to know that there's someone upstairs.

Seakay

It's not your neighbour's fault, it really doesn't seem that they are doing anything which you could complain about. Is your flat leasehold? If so then the leaseholder may have some responsibility.
The woolly clouds look fun but seem to be for improving accoustics rather than keeping out external noises.
Ionkontrol's method would seem to be the most efficient and effective.
If your sound is bothering your upstairs neighbour as much as his is bothering you, then perhaps you could come to some arrangement for sharing the cost as you will both benefit from the results, and will also both benefit when it coes to selling as you can't rely on all viewers coming when the neighbours are out.

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budgetdiyer

Its difficult to measure the effectiveness of soundproofing, i could'nt quantify how much difference my efforts made in % terms.

All i can say is i can no longer hear conversations that take place in the room above, i can still hear their washing machine but its quieter and unlikely to wake my son now.

Impact noise is softened / muffled but can still be heard.

I did all the work myself, did'nt bother having the ceiling skimmed as the room was small it only had one visible join of the boards which i taped and filled. The cost was around £350 but that left me with some excess plasterboard and insulation which i will use elsewhere.

I don't think given the construction of my flat that i would be able to 100% eliminate noise (can you in any flat?!) - Personally its the conversations / tv noise that bothers me more, although the impact noise bothers my wife more.

I would think that if impact noise is your biggest annoyance, consider speaking to the owner of the flat above and offer to contribute towards / pay for new carpets. Specify the thickess underlay possible (treadaire red looks good).

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Jojo_the_Tightfisted

They will probably hear your bum squeak as you move in the bath, switch as light on and pace about talking about the noise too. Plus vacuuming. The washing machine, the TV, the computer switching on and everything else you do.

I lived in a normal 1950s flat with concrete floors. No wooden boards to muffle sound, no way of soundproofing, ceilings were as low as was legally permissible, even carpet and underlay did nothing to stop the noises coming in. And then a noisy neighbour moved in.

Hearing people talking and walking about isn't on the same scale as having 35 people in one tiny flat once a week, a toddler whose main form of entertainment is slamming a kitchen unit door repeatedly, an older child whose main form of communication is shrieking at his mother when she tried telling him what to do and the noise is no loud, not only does it travel through the floor, the neighbour below me was convinced it was my doing.

Or the other neighbours who played Christmas songs everyday on continuous loop at full volume for eight hours a day from October. When he wasn't shouting at her for not being good in bed and slamming the front door like a stroppy 14 year old.

Or the one who would vacuum at 3am in the room adjoining our bedrooms.

Or the one below her who would put her music on full blast to scream at her little girl.

Or the one in the ground floor flat who was an alcoholic and couldn't tell the time when not sober, so would try to do DIY at 11.30pm on a school night with power tools.

But at some point, most of it, the place would be quiet enough. Sometimes even silent.

It's normal to have what you describe. It is quiet enjoyment to have nothing more than normal, everyday life going on above. It's one of the reasons flats are cheaper than houses.

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