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Increased audibility of neighbors behind the wall may be found in any apartment, regardless of the type of the housing. As a rule, the anxiety is caused by the airborne noise like voices, TV, screams or dogs barking. Structure-borne noise disturbs more rarely. It may be the movement of an elevator or the flowing water in the pipes. In our company, you can buy the soundproofing which completely removes the noise from the neighbors!

No intermediate floor, even the thickest one, can ever meet the requirements of the Building Codes and Regulations (SNiP) for Noise Protection in terms of soundproofing against the impact noises. Due to violation of the building technologies, the intermediate floors often contact with the pipes and become the conductors of structure-born noise. Let us choose the best option for soundproofing the floors and the floor structures of an apartment or a house!

Poor soundproofing of ceiling against the upstairs neighbors is the most common problem encountered by our customers. Upstairs tramping, falling objects, moving furniture and other impact noises are the top irritants. And this is not surprising: the improper construction of the floor in the upstairs neighbors’ apartment may result in exceeding the standard values for as much as 20 dB! Let us analyze the options of soundproofing the ceiling prior to mounting of the stretch ceiling or the suspended drywall ceiling.

Today, most of apartments in the new buildings are offered for sale in partitions-free open design. So the material and the design of the interior walls must be chosen personally by the apartment’s owner. If soundproofing is a matter of the highest priority, it is preferable that the inter-room partitions be made as the sound insulated framed structures but not of the commonly used gypsum partition blocks or foam concrete blocks.

The most popular option of floor soundproofing is a “floating” screed coat i.e. the screed coat made on the sound insulation layer. Special damping materials eliminate all the rigid constraints between the screed coat plate and the floor structure. Due to the absence of acoustic bridges, the compliance with the Building Codes and Regulations (SNiP) “Noise protection” is ensured with surplus and the high-quality sound insulation of the floor is obtained!

Proper mounting of sound insulation is an important part of noise reduction. However, there may be situations when the already mounted sound insulation fails to work or works inefficiently! Even the best soundproofing materials will make no protection against the noise if the sound insulation is mounted improperly or with errors. That’s why it is important to find out the principles of mounting of sound insulation, the commonly made mistakes and the ways to avoid them before the works are started.