In article , Jo - the girl wrote:

Is there anything that either of us can do to soundproof the floor/
ceiling without tearing the house apart? Or is there something that we
could put around the TV so the sound won't travel upwards through the
ceiling?

Heavy carpet will help, quite a bit, esp. with a thick
heavy pad/underlay.

Maybe you can buy the old man a cool set of suitable
headphones. A lot of programming sounds great through
headphones and he may actually like it. You certainly
will ;-)

They better be comfortable ones if he really watches
17 hours/day though :-(

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