Soundproof Floor Overlay

Sound deadening vinyl also known as mass loaded vinyl this is a thin but heavy vinyl sheet that excels at dampening noise especially in floors machinery and vehicles.

Soundproof floor overlay. Acoustic underlayment special materials that lay over a concrete or plywood subfloor cushioning the flooring and reducing the effects of airborne and impact noise. Where necessary it is. Most flooring installers leave the thinnest layer of plywood under your floor covering in place of better underlayment products. The acousti mat floor underlayment is used to increase sound isolation and reduce impact noise in wood concrete and steel deck construction assemblies.

See the definitions of stc and iic below. Any underlay you want to use for soundproofing a floor should have a noise reduction coefficient nrc rating of at least 0 4. But if you want to soundproof your floor properly you ll need something that can prevent sound from leaking downward. In simple terms underlay with an nrc rating of 0 4 should absorb 40 of footfall noise.

Before any overlay floor finishes are fitted it is essential that the entire floor is perfectly flat clean and dry. Use interlocking floor mats. Below we have put together a list of different acoustic underlays ranked from most to least effective for soundproofing. Jcw acoustic deck 28 with its laminated lower acoustic resilient layer provides a superb acoustic impact overlay solution for timber and concrete floors.

This acoustic floor underlayment can improve the iic impact insulation class by up to 12 points over a wood frame and up to 20 points over concrete. For soundproofing a floor materials with good noise reducing qualities would be required to achieve the desired sound insulation. The soundproofing quality would also directly depend on the weight of the material used on or under the floor. That s where soundproof floor underlayment comes in.