Acoustic Floor Treatment for Nailed Wood Floor
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Specialists in Acoustic Flooring and House to Flat Conversions
PO Box 755 PO Box 755 Capel St Mary Capel St Mary Ipswich Ipswich Suffolk , IP9 2WF Suffolk IP9 2WF Tel No: 0845 5212 096 Tel No: 08455 212096 FaxNo: 08455 212097 No: 0845 5212 097 Fax Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.soundsolutionconsultants.co.uk
Re: Nailed Engineered Floor onto Acoustic Flooring 1. Replaster walls down to chipboard flooring and plug all large holes with mineral wool 2. Apply Isolation tape around bottom edge of wall (re-plaster wall edge if required). 3. Lay Hush Ply 28 Acoustic Flooring boards up to Isolation tape. 4. Stagger boards brick work fashion and glue edges. 5. Cover whole room and fill in gaps with off cuts of boards. 6. Leave 5mm gap around pipes and seal with mastic. 7. Fit Engineered Flooring as per manufacturers instructions secret nailing into Hush Ply 8. ENSURE THAT NAILS DO NTO PENETRATE THROUGH HUSHPLY28 9. Fix skirting into WALL ONLY Not through into floor 10. Ensure 3mm Gap between Skirting and wood floor finish, seal with clear silicon 11. Floor must end up water tight.!! Cross section detail
Ply 28 Isolation Tape Plan view of fitting Trim Foam back to Skirting Engineered flooring nailed to Ply 28
Hush ply 28 18mm T+G Chipboard screwed and glued to joists, 100mm Insulation between joists
DO NOT NAIL OR SCREW THROUGH HUSH PLY 28 INTO ORIGINAL FLOORING Tools Safety gloves and goggles, Electric Jigsaw, Handsaw, Marker Pen, Work bench, Tape measure, straight edge, Sealant gun, and tubes of sealant.
Please note, the success of any acoustic system, will depend entirely on the construction of the existing building and finishing detail, to the extent that we can not guarantee the level of noise reduction that will actually be achieved. It is the clients responsibility to check the quantities of acoustic materials ordered are correct as shortages will have to be paid for separately and to check with Local Building Control on actual testing requirements.
VAT No. 844 9267 90
Reg No. 5651834 - Registered Address 82 East Hill, Colchester CO1 2QW
Web site: http://www.soundsolutionconsultants.co.uk/
PO Box 755 PO Box 755 Capel St Mary Capel St Mary Ipswich Ipswich Suffolk , IP9 2WF Suffolk IP9 2WF Tel No: 0845 5212 096 Tel No: 08455 212096 FaxNo: 08455 212097 No: 0845 5212 097 Fax Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.soundsolutionconsultants.co.uk
Re: Nailed Engineered Floor onto Acoustic Flooring 1. Replaster walls down to chipboard flooring and plug all large holes with mineral wool 2. Apply Isolation tape around bottom edge of wall (re-plaster wall edge if required). 3. Lay Hush Ply 28 Acoustic Flooring boards up to Isolation tape. 4. Stagger boards brick work fashion and glue edges. 5. Cover whole room and fill in gaps with off cuts of boards. 6. Leave 5mm gap around pipes and seal with mastic. 7. Fit Engineered Flooring as per manufacturers instructions secret nailing into Hush Ply 8. ENSURE THAT NAILS DO NTO PENETRATE THROUGH HUSHPLY28 9. Fix skirting into WALL ONLY Not through into floor 10. Ensure 3mm Gap between Skirting and wood floor finish, seal with clear silicon 11. Floor must end up water tight.!! Cross section detail
Ply 28 Isolation Tape Plan view of fitting Trim Foam back to Skirting Engineered flooring nailed to Ply 28
Hush ply 28 18mm T+G Chipboard screwed and glued to joists, 100mm Insulation between joists
DO NOT NAIL OR SCREW THROUGH HUSH PLY 28 INTO ORIGINAL FLOORING Tools Safety gloves and goggles, Electric Jigsaw, Handsaw, Marker Pen, Work bench, Tape measure, straight edge, Sealant gun, and tubes of sealant.
Please note, the success of any acoustic system, will depend entirely on the construction of the existing building and finishing detail, to the extent that we can not guarantee the level of noise reduction that will actually be achieved. It is the clients responsibility to check the quantities of acoustic materials ordered are correct as shortages will have to be paid for separately and to check with Local Building Control on actual testing requirements.
VAT No. 844 9267 90
Reg No. 5651834 - Registered Address 82 East Hill, Colchester CO1 2QW
Web site: http://www.soundsolutionconsultants.co.uk/
