The importance of soundproofing the ceiling in the apartment

Sound insulation of the ceiling in the house is very important.

When the loud voices of neighbors and their movement through the apartment are heard through the walls and ceiling, the peace of the household comes to an end.

Generating noise about it does not even think.

To lose the feeling that you are not alone in the apartment, you can install suspended ceilings with soundproofing.

Doubling effect from soundproofing

Stretch ceiling in the house and so a barrier to penetration of extraneous sounds. Its soft as a spring surface repels sound waves.

It's a well-known fact that solid matter clearly produces noise through itself. Penetration of sounds inside stops the porosity of the material, so the sounds that have passed through it lose their power.

True, only the suspended ceiling can not block all the knocking from the top floor.

By the way, soundproofing only the ceiling, even done according to all the criteria, will not block the way to the noise coming from the walls and the apartment below you.

Having adjusted to make your home atmosphere not susceptible to what is happening in the neighborhood, you will have to take drastic measures. After all, in an apartment from below or from above, too, they hardly want to hear your voices and steps.

But the soundproofing of the ceiling in the apartment is the first thing to do, because it is advised to start with a difficult one when repairing.

On not yet repaired floor is not terrible to drop tools. Moreover, the soundproofing of the ceiling in the apartment will make it possible to check how much noise outside the walls and below.

Probably, for noise isolation of the space around and on the floor will need more investment than expected.

Unfortunately, masters who install stretch ceilings can not always make high-quality soundproofing. This is due to the fact that everyone has their own tasks.

It is more correct and easier for specialists to carry out a stretch ceiling: they will not have to lose money for tools and time for this difficult work.

Only knowledge in this area will be very useful to you, that is, you can give the ordering master, control it and pay for additional work.

And, however, the soundproofing under the suspended ceiling is not as heavy as it seems, and if desired, you can do it yourself.

Weak supports - do not ignore the small details of the process

A common mistake of the masters is the installation of frame elements directly to the walls. With the ceiling, nothing bad will happen, and the effect of sound insulation will not.

We repeat that solids are excellent conductors of sounds. Rigid profiles, chained to the wall, will feel and transmit vibration from the walls.

Only one small thing can help out in this situation. This is a damping tape. It is sold for a penny, but it brings results.

The trick is to, by fixing the structure of the frame, put a tape between them and the wall. Profiles from this will not be mounted more weakly and will not come into contact with the surface of the walls.

And sound waves will come across a barrier almost drowning them. The design will be transmitted only imperceptible echoes of sounds.

You can take it to note and mount so different designs to the top and walls. If for plastering walls in the house take gypsum cardboard, then simply put between it and the surface this indispensable tape.

Minor discrepancies in the costs of repairs in the house with their own hands will ultimately give an absolute effect!

How to use the tape when repairing the ceiling, shown in the video.

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Soundproof technology - what will close the voids well?

The complete set of tension ceilings forms the need to isolate it from penetration of extraneous sounds.

The distance from the ceiling to the tensioning structure is quite large, so obviously needs to fill the void.

Materials for soundproofing the ceiling produce a wide variety. It is necessary to push off from the thickness of an unoccupied cavity.

If it is more than five millimeters, then use fiberglass or mineral wool. Matter from cotton wool is characterized by the best indicator of noise destruction.

This is facilitated by their soft and heterogeneous structure. Sounds seem to lose their decibels in the pores of soft tissue. The harder the raw materials used, the worse the sounds are absorbed. So to them, the easy cotton wool is the right decision.

But when the cavity above the ceiling is small, there are two ways. The first is to allow the installer to make the ceiling lower by covering the cavity with cotton wool.

It is visually possible to add a room of height without hanging a chandelier there. Instead, it uses lighting hidden in the recesses of the skirtings of the ceiling.

When there is no desire so to sacrifice space, there is a second way to solve the problem. Here you need a thin soundproofing of the newest materials with a thickness of 5 to 10 mm.

You can use medium stiff wool or polymers, as well as composites that combine several differently structured materials.

But even if the delicate matter, in your opinion, is the best option, then try to connect one material with another.

Fine soundproofing in an apartment is by no means carried out with the use of expanded polystyrene or polystyrene foam. Their configuration is porous, but it does not absorb noise well.

You can see the video about installing the suspended soundproof ceiling with your own hands.

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Stretch stream with soundproofing - the sequence of actions of

Once you have selected the right material, go to small jobs - cover up the slits and holes.

Small cracks can only be masked with putty. And it's more logical to close the slots with a mounting foam.

When pipes are laid in ceilings of the ceiling, the area near it must be fenced off with a sealant - a special acoustic one. To this end, they beat off literally a couple of centimeters of concrete around the pipes and fill in the gaps with the sealant.

Among the sound-absorbing materials there are also sticking. This method of isolation by one's own hands does not take much time.

If funds for such materials are not found, then it is possible to build supports for plates that do not allow noise. The construction, where the frame material is a bar or plasterboard, is fastened up the width of the slabs.

We also apply damping tape!

Drywall should cover the entire space, leaving no empty gaps or slots. Of course, the beams and plasterboard should not go beyond the profile limits.

It is desirable that there is a loose interlayer between such a substance as drywall and a ceiling membrane.
Drywall will give the ceiling outside aesthetic properties, and inside - will make a reliable barrier.

The ceiling, where the insulating material is drywall, does not let any noise inside the apartment. Then it's up to the master to pull the ceiling.

The soundproofing of the ceiling, made by hand, is reflected in the video.

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Special character of insulation in wooden and panel constructions

In a wooden house, the strength of which is lower than concrete and brick, soundproofing requires accuracy.

Buildings with wooden ceilings in two floors need noise insulation of the floors. You can mount a "floating" floor.

In housing with wooden ceilings much more audible foreign noise, because gypsum cardboard to eliminate sound waves is no longer suitable. There soundproofing is carried out with the use of fiberboard and building felt.

But first you need to prepare the surface - remove the paint, remove the mold. Insulating layers are fastened to screws and glue.

Sound insulation in a wooden room will be provided by materials such as ecological wool and cork.

They are mounted on wood-fiber or chipboard, leveling the ceiling area.

The biggest problem in terms of audibility of knocking and other noises occurs in the panel house. There neighborly conversations and movements proceed from everywhere: from above, from below and from the walls.

Sound insulation in the panel housing will have to be significantly spent. In addition, installation of insulation will take a lot of time and effort. And most importantly, it will seriously reduce the size of the rooms.

In a small panel house it is better to use the latest materials. Not much impact on the amount of space use to absorb the sounds of acoustic tension ceilings. Their structure is special - perforated.

Help in eliminating noise and sound-absorbing wallpaper. In appearance, they resemble simple wallpaper, but their reverse side is covered with a special nap.

So, having thought over all the details of the soundproofing of the ceiling with your own hands, you can forget about noisy neighbors and turn on the TV loudly.