False ceiling...

Ben35

Hey guys, hope someone can give me some advice or point me in the right direction on installing a new false ceiling in my bedroom. I have a three story house and my bedroom is below my daughters on the top floor, i want to reduce the sound of the creaking woodchip flooring/footsteps and her talking. I don't want the upheaval of lifting the floor above and sorting the flooring out so i'm thinking of installing a false ceiling in my bedroom as i have the height to do it. I was thinking of new joists with acoustic rocwool in between, a gyproc frame across the joists and two layers of soundboard and skim. Does this sound like the ideal solution? If so what size joists would i need? The room is 4m x 3.6m and obviously they only need to be strong enough to hold the boards? Or, is there any other method i could use if i pulled down the existing plaster board ceiling and somehow fixed the problem from below?? I know there is also the hanging system but would rather leave the old ceiling separated from the new. Thanks in advance!

System

A completely independent ceiling as you are proposing will likely give the best result here, the only thing that might improve it would be to put the plasterboard on resilient bars...

Gloomendoom

the_r_sole wrote: »

A completely independent ceiling as you are proposing will likely give the best result here, the only thing that might improve it would be to put the plasterboard on resilient bars...

And a really thick carpet/underlay combo on the daughter's bedroom floor.

Ben35

Thanks for the replies people! ���� Ah resilient bars is what I meant instead if gyproc frame ���� I'm just struggling to know what size joists I would need considering that it actually wouldn't be supporting a floor as such but only supporting the plaster boards...? I do have the room but if I could use lesser thickness woods then all the better!

Ben35

Hmm those thumbs up icons on the iPhone don't really come through properly lol

brightontraveller

Ben35 wrote: »

Hey guys, hope someone can give me some advice or point me in the right direction on installing a new false ceiling in my bedroom. I have a three story house and my bedroom is below my daughters on the top floor, i want to reduce the sound of the creaking woodchip flooring/footsteps and her talking. I don't want the upheaval of lifting the floor above and sorting the flooring out so i'm thinking of installing a false ceiling in my bedroom as i have the height to do it. I was thinking of new joists with acoustic rocwool in between, a gyproc frame across the joists and two layers of soundboard and skim. Does this sound like the ideal solution? If so what size joists would i need? The room is 4m x 3.6m and obviously they only need to be strong enough to hold the boards? Or, is there any other method i could use if i pulled down the existing plaster board ceiling and somehow fixed the problem from below?? I know there is also the hanging system but would rather leave the old ceiling separated from the new. Thanks in advance!

Errm so rather than lift floor and place rockwall in between the joist you want to build new false ceiling ? how do you put in a drawing pin with a sledge hammer,,,,,

ceredigion

3.6m=6"x2"@400mm centres.