I have a room above my sound studio downstairs. What is the best
underlayment materials I can use under my carpet upstairs to reduce
impact noise from footsteps?

I heard someone said I can use a layer of cork underlayment first,
followed by a carpet pad, then finally the carpet.

I searched through the newsgroups regarding this and it appears most
people use cork underlayments for wood floors and not for carpeted
floors.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks

The cork sounds like it'd work. You can get 90-weight (heaver than
typical) carpet padding too. Experiment.
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wrote:
I have a room above my sound studio downstairs. What is the best
underlayment materials I can use under my carpet upstairs to reduce
impact noise from footsteps?

I heard someone said I can use a layer of cork underlayment first,
followed by a carpet pad, then finally the carpet.

I searched through the newsgroups regarding this and it appears most
people use cork underlayments for wood floors and not for carpeted
floors.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks

If you have impact noice on a carpet, there must be a 900# gorilla up
there ) Carpet plus foam padding should silence just about any foot
traffic sounds, unless junior has a trampoline. Making the floor
treatment too thick might give you problems with doors closing, etc.

wrote:
I have a room above my sound studio downstairs. What is the best
underlayment materials I can use under my carpet upstairs to reduce
impact noise from footsteps?

I heard someone said I can use a layer of cork underlayment first,
followed by a carpet pad, then finally the carpet.

I searched through the newsgroups regarding this and it appears most
people use cork underlayments for wood floors and not for carpeted
floors.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks

I would guess the problem is more than impact noise as any reasonable
carpet and pad would handle that.

Take a look at: http://www.soundproofing.org/ for some ideas.

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Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

m Ransley wrote:
Concrete board would be best , seperating it from the floor with
rubber isolation pads. Google to check out what sound proofing
companies recomend, concrete does soundproof but the key to
soundproofing is not allowing the transfer of sound, that is why
rubber pads float the floor.

I think a good way of saying it is that you need to block the sound and
you need to block the vibration.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

On 12 May 2006 22:28:02 -0700, "
wrote:

I have a room above my sound studio downstairs. What is the best
underlayment materials I can use under my carpet upstairs to reduce
impact noise from footsteps?

I heard someone said I can use a layer of cork underlayment first,
followed by a carpet pad, then finally the carpet.

I searched through the newsgroups regarding this and it appears most
people use cork underlayments for wood floors and not for carpeted
floors.


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