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E11_FTW

Soundproofing - anyone have any experience of and/or recommendations for soundproofing (some rooms of) a flat?

I'll be heading over to the 'Leaving London' thread if I have to listen to my upstairs neighbour entertaining visitors many more times. We're in a Victorian house converted into two flats, and we're on the ground floor. Relations with the neighbour in question are civil enough that we might be able to talk about splitting cost/getting access to her floors as well as our ceilings.

What I really want to know is how effective it is - lots of websites talk about a 25db reduction in noise levels or whatever, but I have no idea what effect this will have in practice on your average headboard-banging or fake orgasm noises. Any chance of a good night's sleep or do we need to start looking at estate agents/hitmen?

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rodabod in reply to @E11_FTW

I think your biggest issue would be persuading a neighbour to let you lift their flooring. That's quite a messy job involving getting the entire floor cleared.

I think you could possibly get away with a shallow false ceiling to provide some mass to damp the sound.

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E11_FTW in reply to @rodabod

Tbh, I think we'll need to look at different solutions in different rooms. Our front room has pretty full on original coving and other plasterwork that we're keen not to lose. The bedroom doesn't have that issue, so the hanging ceiling will be our first move there.

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