Urbanization has caused cities and towns to be choked with lots of people. This, in turn, has called for a lot of sky risen building apartments.
You can bear with me that where there are lots of people living and sharing floors, walls, ceilings, there is bound to be unwanted sound in one way or the other.
Maybe its the walking passage that passes through your bedroom wall. The neighbor having a party or it’s just you who is a fan of loud music and doesn’t want to disturb those living downstairs or upstairs.
There many reasons that could cause you to look for how to soundproof a bedroom floor. Soundproofing a floor is a great way of absorbing or blocking out the noise that could potentially get into your apartment or get transmitted into the neighbor’s room.
These methods outlined hear do not require you getting your building supervisor’s permission or you won’t lose your apartment security deposit.
These soundproof flooring underlays do not require any professional to install them for you. If you are willing to get a bit dirty and ask for help from a neighbor or friend. You can soundproof your wooden floor easily.
The best part is, you don’t need permission from your building supervisor. Unless you know that you will be tampering with the floor wood or the wall.
Soundproofing Hardwood or Wooden Floors- Easy Techniques
Hardwood floors or wooden floors make the most noise when any sound wave travels through them or is impacted on them.
That is because not only are they thin but also there is gapping between them and the floor in which they are installed.
With these easy soundproofing methods for floors, I am very sure you will be able to drastically reduce the impact of noise on your floors. These worked for me when was soundproofing our bedroom and the kids.
1 . Place Thick Carpet on the Floor
Get a thick and denser carpet for the bedroom floor. I am not talking about the plastic cheap carpets here. You can get a tightly woven carpet online or at the local stores.
Carpets are good at absorbing and preventing impact noise or airborne noise from passing through them. Carpets work really best with other floor soundproofing materials I am about to outline below.
2. Place Rubber Floor Mats
If after placing the carpet, you still find sound leaking through it into the room, I will recommend you get a Rubber Floor Mat and place it under the carpet.
Rubber mats, in general, have tigher holes that prevent noise from passing through them easily.
3. Install a Mass Loaded Vinyl Mat on the floor
Mass loaded vinyl mats are especially designed to absorb sound. They are some of the effective ways to block noise from entering or leaving a given space.
If after placing the carpet, you still want more soundproofing methods to reinforce the floor soundproofing, then get a Mass Loaded Vinyl Mat. This mat is odorless, thin and perfect sound absorber for different areas. Places it on the floor under the carpet.
Unlike the rubber mat, you will need to screw it to the floor, which will require you to get permission from the building supervisor. So in order not to worry about that, just get a smalle MLV and place it very close to where the sound is leaking from. Or you simply use glue to glue it to the floor.
This way, you don’t have to place it on the whole floor. The way you will do is, you place the mass loaded vinyl mat on the floor first, then the rubber floor mat and then add the carpet on top, This way anybody entering the room would even notice you have all these soundproofing flooring underlays.
4. Use Floor Protection Under Rugs
I am not talking about that old shirt or dress of yours you turned into a rug here. I am talking about rugs that are specially designed for hardwood, tiles or concrete floors to provide cushioning for walking.
The best part about these rugs is, you can use them for any type of floor you want. If you will like to get one, I will recommend this Floor Protection Rug which works great for me.
You can use the rug instead of the carpet or you can use both. However, you have to keep in mind that carpets just like rugs can absorb sound as well as liquids. so if you are found of spilling in your bedroom, then you will have to set aside funds for washing them once in a while to prevent odor.
5. Use Puzzle Exercise Mat
The puzzle exercise mats which are mostly found in classrooms can also be used in your apartment for soundproofing wooden floors or any hard floor.
To use these interlocking floor mats, you simply have to lay the first one down into the corner of your bedroom floor and work from there, covering your floor by connecting the mats as if one large jigsaw puzzle.
Repeat until you cover the surface in which you hope to soundproof.
This technique is one of the easiest soundproofing methods for those that don’t want to spend too much time and effort.
The downside is that interlocking floor mats are not always the best at dampening noise when compared to the other products I mentioned above.
For the best effect, try combining the floor mats with other soundproofing products. That way, you will get better results.
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On Soundproofing Your Bedroom Floor
When it comes to how to soundproof a bedroom floor, it is also important to take care of some of the other noise vulnerable areas in the room. Areas like the door and windows. These two openings, have the most gaps for sound to pass through in every room.
Once you have taken care of those areas, you can implement the soundproofing methods I outlined above.
It is important to know that not all the methods are of equal effectiveness. Something like the puzzle mats are not as effective as the mass loaded vinyl mats which are specially designed to take care of unwanted sounds.
It is worth noting that, if you combine two or more of these mentioned above materials on the floor, the noise reduction results will be better.
To reduce the amount of sound travel in your apartment, try to make sure that there are no gaps between your soundproof flooring and the wall.
If you want to be on the safe side, you can even have your carpet pad or underlayment come up your wall a bit so that it will be level with the top layer of carpeting, sealing the mat to the wall with a compound.
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