Help with impact noise from upstairs neighbours
10/8/2016 at 1:24:52 AM
I have incredibly noisy neighbours upstairs and their landlord put in a vinyl floor (supposedly there is some sort of underlay but it's wholly inadequate). We now hear a lot of impact noise from the 3 kids running and dropping stuff.
Is there any kind of padding or matting we can get to put under the area rugs the upstairs neighbours have bought?
I don't think we can force the landlord to re-carpet the upstairs suite. I am going nuts with the noise.
10/9/2016 at 11:45:57 AM
A lot of noise issues stem from the quality of the building in the first place there are a few things that can be done to reduce the noise.
1 would mean removal and replacement of you ceiling using rez bar and to layer-up your walls or ceiling in your case with ordinary drywall. Another way is to use a specialty sound-dampening product like QuietRock. Creating multiple layers of materials is a sure way to reduce sound transmission. QuietRock is a three-layer sandwich: two layers of approximately 1/4" drywall with a sheet of "viscoelastic sound absorbing polymers" in the middle.
It is next to impossible to completely eliminate all sound.
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