Soundproofing in the apartment

If you live in a house with thin walls, then, most likely you have noisy neighbors who annoy you madly. You are tired of calling them to silence and tranquility and decided to create a soundproofing in your room. Then the best effect can be achieved if the complete sound insulation of the walls, ceiling, and floor. Let's find out together how to improve sound insulation in the apartment.

Sound insulation of the ceiling in the apartment with their own hands

To install sound insulation on the ceiling, we will need directly soundproof material, guiding profiles with screws, drill, glue, drywall sheets. Most often for the soundproofing of the ceiling, the apartment uses material such as mineral wool.

1. First, the surface of the ceiling must be primed. This will prevent the appearance of cracks, as well as promote better gluing of the material.
2. After this, you need to install on the ceiling guiding anti-vibration profiles, which will perfectly protect you from stompming neighbors from above.
3. Between the guides, the soundproofing material is laid, which happens in rolls or briquettes. To the surface of the ceiling, the material is fixed with special suspenders, but for a higher density, you can use building glue. The insulation material must be very tight against the ceiling without gaps between the sheets. Then the noise insulation will be most effective.
4. After laying the soundproof material, we mount the gypsum boards along the guides.
5. All joints and seams are carefully sealed with a vibroacoustic sealant
6. After the soundproofing is mounted, you can level the surface of the ceiling and proceed to its finish finish.

Sound insulation of walls in an apartment from neighbors

1. Before starting the installation of sound insulation on walls, it is necessary to seal all cracks on their surface with cement or gypsum plaster , and also seal all the sockets with fiberglass or foam rubber.
2. We mount on the walls a crate, which will serve as a frame for soundproofing material. When fixing the profile to the wall use a cork, rubber or other vibration-proof material.
3. Fill the frame with soundproofing material. It can be glass wool, mineral wool, expanded polystyrene, pressed cork.
4. On top of the insulating material lay the sheets of drywall, shpaklyuem them and decorate their choice.

Sound insulation of the floor in the apartment

The most popular method of soundproofing floors in the apartment today is the so-called floating floor. To use it, a soundproof material is used, such as compacted cork, which does not decay and has a long service life. For this, for soundproofing the floor, you can use glass wool, mineral wool, foam polyethylene.

1. Before starting work, you should carefully level the floor, making a concrete screed. After the floor has dried, we lay on it a vapor barrier material, for example, a polyethylene film. In this case, the film should grasp the walls by about 15 cm. In addition, along the perimeter of the floor, we glue a special dumping tape at the base of the walls.
2. We lay all over the floor guides from a metal profile or wooden bars. Between the guiding flooring selected soundproof material, and on top again covered with a polyethylene film, which protects our floor from moisture.
3. Install the lighthouses and fill them with a cement screed. With the help of a long rule, level the floor. Experts do not recommend accelerating the drying of the floor. To avoid cracking cement, the screed is slightly moistened with water and covered with a film.