fanalord
2011-11-04 20:00:17
- #1
Hello everyone,
We have now been living in the new mid-terrace house for less than a year and sometimes I am quite annoyed. The reason is the installation shaft, at least I suspect it. The neighbors walk on their normal floor no matter which floor they are on and we hear a dull thud and banging day in and day out... over time this really gets on your nerves because you can barely find a quiet moment on the couch and sometimes I’m just about to fall asleep and over there the noise starts. Almost exclusively impact sound is transmitted. The walls are 10cm concrete on each side and there is supposed to be a separating layer in between, however, we have seen in the other terraced houses built by this company that the walls sometimes stand a little crooked to each other, at least it appears that way. I have the big fear that somewhere there is a sound bridge and it is driving us crazy here. Since the water pipes run through the terraced houses (WEG), I suspect that they continue in the screed of the neighbor and thus transmit noise. Would it make sense to retrofit insulation in the installation shaft, for example, to have it blown out with Rockwool, or do you think that impact sound will simply not be controllable like that? In the bedroom I might install a drywall partition so that the nights are quiet, but I have also read that this helps more against normal sound sources but less against structure-borne sound. Greetings Fana
We have now been living in the new mid-terrace house for less than a year and sometimes I am quite annoyed. The reason is the installation shaft, at least I suspect it. The neighbors walk on their normal floor no matter which floor they are on and we hear a dull thud and banging day in and day out... over time this really gets on your nerves because you can barely find a quiet moment on the couch and sometimes I’m just about to fall asleep and over there the noise starts. Almost exclusively impact sound is transmitted. The walls are 10cm concrete on each side and there is supposed to be a separating layer in between, however, we have seen in the other terraced houses built by this company that the walls sometimes stand a little crooked to each other, at least it appears that way. I have the big fear that somewhere there is a sound bridge and it is driving us crazy here. Since the water pipes run through the terraced houses (WEG), I suspect that they continue in the screed of the neighbor and thus transmit noise. Would it make sense to retrofit insulation in the installation shaft, for example, to have it blown out with Rockwool, or do you think that impact sound will simply not be controllable like that? In the bedroom I might install a drywall partition so that the nights are quiet, but I have also read that this helps more against normal sound sources but less against structure-borne sound. Greetings Fana