Acoustical Membrane Acoustic Underlayment For Wood Floors

This acoustical underlayment can be used as finished floor.

Acoustical membrane acoustic underlayment for wood floors.

The acousti mat floor underlayment is used to increase sound isolation and reduce impact noise in wood concrete and steel deck construction assemblies. Reduces impact noise and vibrations while reducing airborne sound transmission. In applications where acoustics are a key consideration it s important to glue or float the flooring rather than nail so sound energy can t travel directly through the nail into the subfloor and down into the rooms below an acoustic underlayment made of cork rubber or foam can further dampen noise and. First install a perimeter isolation strip to prevent the flooring from touching the walls or any protrusions in the floor.

In most cases you can install acoustic underlayment in a few easy steps. This acoustic floor underlayment can improve the iic impact insulation class by up to 12 points over a wood frame and up to 20 points over concrete. Quiet floor underlayment for use as a subfloor in new and renovation construction projects. Sound deadening vinyl also known as mass loaded vinyl this is a thin but heavy vinyl sheet that excels at dampening noise especially in floors machinery and vehicles.

Acoustic floor underlayment is great under hardwood ceramic or carpet. The laminate or engineered wood flooring is intended to float on top of the iso step rubber floor underlayment. See the definitions of stc and iic below.