Noise From Laminate Flooring In Flats

The snapping sounds are almost always traced to an uneven subfloor.

Noise from laminate flooring in flats. Only install a laminate or hard floor surface on a clear level prepared sub floor and only ever with an underlay designed to reduce impact noise transmission. There are various types of acoustic underlay on the market and your flooring supplier will be able to advise you on the most appropriate for your project. Subfloors need to be quite flat. The floor surface should be a floating.

Laminate flooring materials don t tolerate humpy and bumpy subfloors. The lounge and hallway are already laminated but it is a cheap laminate and is chipping. Neighbour noise between flats. Hi i bought my top floor flat built 2005 a couple of months ago and want to lay new laminate flooring throughout the flat.

We live in an old house 1890 that has been converted into flats and the noise from the flat above is quite intrusive at times. We have addressed the problem with our new neighbours by letter and things have improved a little. Www defra gov uk the full report prepared for defra into the extent of problems of noise from laminate and wooden floors is available upon request from defra. Read more j jones dorset.

18 months before i left neighbours started laying laminate flooring then the flat directly above installed it. I lived in a block of flats. While the bedrooms have horrible carpets. We can hear footsteps voices items being dropped on the floor etc.

Laminate flooring is noisy the underlay is to cushion your flooring not prevent sound transmition most ha restrict the use of laminatated flooring in flats because of sound transmition issues any noise you make an be amplified by laminate flooring what you think is fine can be unbearable to others. It will apply to house conversions and blocks of flats. I would like to put in new laminate in throughout. A new law is coming into force some time this year forbidding landlords councils tenants from having laminate flooring or just floorboards in any flats above ground floor apartments.

Contact defra by telephone on 08459 33 55 77 or by. A guide entitled noise control from laminated and wooden flooring is available to download from the defra website. However the management company. 6 19pm on tuesday may 14th 2013.

I ll try to find the link to the announcement made by government on 14th january.