I'm in a condo and my downstairs neighbor can hear my music. I'm looking into putting a sound barrier over the cement floor and under the carpet. Has anyone had to do this and can point me toward products I can use?
It is a cement floor with an 8lb carpet pad and carpet. At 6 to 8 inches of cement, I live in Florida and the complex was built in 2006. I have no other noise issues, just through the floor.
I'm looking into the mass loaded vinyl and a few other options. I'm on the 4th floor of a 4 story building. I'm not playing my music extremely loud ( too me ) My neighbors on either side don't hear my music, I've checked with both. It's just the neighbor below. It's not extremely loud to my neighbor but just enough to be bothersome when trying to sleep.For a temp. solution I've turned it down a little, put a pad under my sub woofer and turned my spikes over so thet're not going through the carpet to the sub floor. I've ordered spike pads so I can turn the spikes back the correct way.
sometimes bass and other times music I'm told, not very loud, I turned up music 1 at a time and had her call when she could hear it. It was a little louder than I normally play it, but some songs can play a little louder than others and some the bass pops in. I'm just looking to decrease the sound traveling through the floor a little.
I pulled up the carpet and pad and put down the 1lb MLV, then put the pad and carpet back down. I've been playing the music a little lower too. Seen my neighbor today and she stated she hasn't heard my music at all since. Now I just have to work with her and find out what volume I can turn it too before she can hear it.
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