![]() Airborne sound can reach you from upstairs through open doors, etc. However, when it comes to hearing noises downstairs, most of the airborne noise gets downstairs through other pathways. Often people upstairs can hear your conversations below and some of that sound reaches them through the floor. They do when moving the opposite way, though. – do not travel to the room below through the floor. In most cases, airborne sounds – conversations, music or TV, etc. Your biggest challenge with floor soundproofing The reason for that is simple: once you know how the noise gets in, you’ll be able to know how to stop it in its tracks. Full stop.īefore you dive into this soundproofing project excitedly, though, we need to discuss how the noise gets to the rooms below. You can soundproof a floor, and reduce the different types of noises that typically bleed through – foot noise, moving things around, and even conversations. (And before you ask, no, there is no “ but” coming.) And let’s start by getting something out of the way. I soundproof the floor and managed to significantly reduce the noise bleeding downstairs. Dinner parties like this would not happen again. It was a cacophony and at some point, we could hardly hear each other. ![]() But because of the way the house was built, the sound carried downstairs to where we were. The kids weren’t doing anything wrong, of course. Their running around sounded like a drum festival to us. ![]() The sound of every dropped Lego brick or another toy resonated downstairs. We could hear their every word, every giggle, and fighting over who should be playing with this or that toy. As we were having a lovely chat (and food, of course) in the dining room, the kids went to play upstairs. Nothing fancy, just a handful of friends and us. We hosted a dinner party a few years ago. I’ve never been so infuriated with my house.
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