Treating Floor in New Construction - Reducing Footfall and Vibration


Looking for some good ideas/solutions to treating my new dedicated music room's floor.  The room will be fairly large at 22w x 29L, built on the main floor of the new house with a basement below.  My current room is in my basement with concrete floors so footfall is never an issue.

I have asked the engineering firm to give me some recommendations on making the floor stronger structure wise; not sure what they will suggest, maybe floor joist on more narrow centers, say 12 inch vs 16.  

Have you tackled this issue?  What about mass loaded vinyl (MLV); would a layer of heavy vinyl between the OSB floor boards and carpet pad help?  Use two layers of OSB flooring and glue them together?  Ideas?

stickman451

Showing 1 response by halcro

Not a bad idea from rja....
Best to jack up the joists to 'level' (or even slightly higher....'pre-camber') prior to to the gluing and screwing so that you allow the box-beams to neutralise stresses before 'loading'.
Key word here is 'glue'...
Screws alone will not allow the 'skins' to stress....