Acoustic or “soundproof” floors are the floors between two rooms of a house, upstairs and down, between flats, one over the other or between spaces of different use, for example an apartment over a restaurant.

Acoustic separating floors can simply be used to improve the comfort of the occupants, for example to reduce the noise of the kids running about upstairs in a house or to meet the requirements of building control under part E of building regulations, or the Scottish Building Warrant.

The types of sound that are considered for these types of floors are Airborne and Impact:

Airborne Sound

Airborne sound is the noise associated with speech, the TV or other sources where the sound travels through the air.

Impact Sound

Impact sound is the noise of people moving about or sources of noise directly on top of the floor, for example people walking on a floor above or a base speaker in a cinema room.

Acoustic floors aim to reduce these two types of noise.

We have a number of acoustic floor solutions available to achieve exceptionally high levels of separation between levels of a building.  These can be simply high performance floors within houses to provide extra comfort and quality within the build, through to floors with the toughest performance requirements separating loud commercial spaces from residential ones.

Examples of these include venues with live music from apartments above through to cinema floors and roof spaces with building services machines installed on the finished floor.