Step into Serenity: Enhance Your Space with Our Floor Options To Suit You Home
Important points to consider:
- What is the maximum height that your floor can be raised?
- What will the final floor surface be? (Carpet/Original Floorboards/Laminate ect)
- What type of noise do you want to reduce? Your impact and airborne noise to downstairs or airborne noise traveling into your flat
- Subfloor structure. Do you have conventional floor joists or a concrete floor?(Is there a void between the floor boards and ceiling boards to fill with insulation)
Please click on a system below to view more illustrations or scroll to the bottom to see the Floor Comparison Table
Comparison Table
| System | FLOOR HEIGHT GAIN | IMPACT PERFORMANCE (SRI) dB | AIRBORNE PERFORMANCE (SRI) dB |
| Acoustic Mineral Wool and Membrane | +/-1mm or +/-0.1inches |
5 | 18 |
| Over Floor Soundplanc and Acoustic Mineral Wool | +/-19mm or +/-0.8inches |
4 | 17 |
| Under Floor Soundplanc and Acoustic Mineral Wool | None | 4 | 15 |
| Under Floor Hanger | +/-8mm or +/-0.3inches |
15 | 15 |
| Acoustic Mineral Wool and Triple Barrier Mat | +/-15mm or +/-0.6inches |
24 | 18 |
| Acoustic Mineral Wool & ImpactDefenceFloor (IDF) | +/-28mm or+ +/-1.1inches (from joist) |
26 | 14 |
| Acoustic Mineral Wool & ImpactDefenceFloor (IDF) & Triple Barrier Mat | +/-32mm or+ +/-1.5inches (from joist) |
30 | 20 |
Details on SRI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_reduction_index
The Sound Reduction Index is expressed in decibels (dB). It is the weighted sound reduction index for a partition or single component only. This is a laboratory-only measurement, which uses knowledge of the relative sizes of the rooms in the test suite, and the reverberation time in the receiving room, and the known level of noise which can pass between the rooms in the suite by other routes (flanking) plus the size of the test sample to produce a very accurate and repeatable measurement of the performance of the sampled material or construction.
