Is additional impact sound insulation useful?

Hello everyone,

I will be laying a new floor in all rooms in the next few days. I have decided on the design floor Haro Disano. The reasons for me were the design (size of the plank and appearance) and of course the maintenance effort and robustness. The floor is also PVC-free and free of plasticizers, which is also quite important. The floor is equipped with an HDF core as well as a relatively thin cork insulation underlay.

Now the question is whether there is any objection to installing an additional impact sound insulation. I was thinking of the Icutec sound protection membrane Exquisit (identical to Alujet Sonic 3000). This is only 1.5mm thick but very solid and heavy (3kg/sqm). I am very convinced by it. Now the question is whether there can be problems because the floor already has a highly compressed cork layer. Do the two underlays interfere with each other or can there be movements? As said, the Icutec or Alujet is very massive.

I would be very grateful for tips and advice!

You do not write what type of floor it is.
Anyway: describe your existing floor to the seller or manufacturer and have them give you specific advice for this particular flooring regarding further steps.

Regards Yvonne

HI, have you ever looked at the installation instructions? Here is an excerpt from the manufacturer's installation instructions: "Since Disano already has an integrated cork insulation underlay, no additional insulation underlay may be laid."
I also know it that way from Meister Designboden DS, that’s what the cork layer on the underside is for.
I myself have installed Meister’s Designboden at home, it’s great.
PS: I think it’s great that you paid attention and didn’t choose a vinyl floor (which would never receive a Blue Angel certification), I always feel really bad when customers choose something like that from us, when I think about my baby crawling on the floor with bare hands, possibly bare legs, licking off the dust that absorbs and releases the plasticizers (just like an adult breathes) and inhales the contaminated dust, etc., the same with pets... With carpets and couch covers etc., it’s just as bad, though usually not in the surface but in the underlying fabric...

.... I always feel really sick when customers pick something like that from us, when I think about my baby crawling on the floor with bare hands, possibly bare legs, licking off the dust lying there which, after all, absorbs the emitted plasticizers and breathes in (like an adult does) the decontaminated dust, etc., same with pets... With carpets and couch covers, etc., it's just as bad, although not on the surface but usually in the underlying fabric...

You do realize that if you raise your child(ren) like with Sagrotan, they will sooner or later develop allergies? As you describe vinyl flooring, in my opinion, you shouldn't even step outside. Rhineland greetings

You do know that if you raise your child(ren) like they are in a Sagrotan bubble, they will develop allergies sooner or later?

The way you describe vinyl flooring, in my opinion you shouldn't even step near the hole

Rhenish greetings

So what now, chemistry versus chemistry? Sagrotan (which among other things contains benzalkonium chloride) is not available here because the products are tested on animals, which we largely avoid and are harmful to pets anyway... Unfortunately, I don’t own any other chemical household cleaners either.

If you want to let your children handle as many poison cocktails as possible, you are welcome to do so, but all my children are perfectly healthy, comparatively rarely sick (the forest kindergarten certainly helps harden them) and they dig around in the garden almost every day, are allowed to eat earthworms and often visit the farmer next door... But I don’t have to burden them with more chemicals (none of the floors passed the Blue Angel certification they were tested for) than they already are nowadays (clothes, toys, etc.)...

I wouldn’t put myself out on a limb so much either, against facts from studies regarding emissions.

I will leave my professional expertise as a former floor installer who switched to the building materials industry for health reasons here in the future; you will be the one here for that then.

Hello,

I wouldn’t put myself out on a limb that far against facts from studies regarding emissions

Hola – did you have a bad mood for breakfast today or is your general condition always set to "be alert"?

For better understanding – I am constantly amazed by today’s generation of parents; nothing is more important than cleanliness (disinfection is probably more accurate). Since you are so into facts and studies, the publication by the researchers from Marburg should surely be known to you? Then you will surely also understand that I stumbled over the term "decontaminated dust"; that is really heavy stuff. Especially in connection with floor coverings which – produced in Germany – are no longer allowed to contain health-hazardous plasticizers. So I would have at least expected a similar comment from you; especially since you seem to be an expert.

If your children are allowed to get dirty and are healthy, I’m certainly happy

I will henceforth leave my professional expertise as a former flooring installer who changed to the building materials industry for health reasons here, and you will be the one here for that in the future.

Still a bit sensitive?

Well then, if a first, small opposition elicits such statements from you, you might indeed be better off avoiding forums. A lot is offered there, but neither a wish concert nor a cuddle group

Rhenish greetings