Material:
- heavy and high density => good sound insulation (but poor thermal insulators, because very heat conductors => for example cold bridges in construction, where condensation immediately forms).
- light and low density => good thermal insulation (but bad sound insulators, because very easily put into vibration by the sounds => for example the membranes of the loudspeakers are light at best “acoustic correctors”).
seb1000 wrote:Hello everyone,
I don't know if I chose the right place to post ...
my situation :
the room / lounge in which my wood stove is located is above the petiot room.
I would like that when I watch TV in the living room or when we receive friends, the noise does not bother the baby to sleep.
the floor is simply wooden, supported by joists, it has a lot of years, and is covered with carpet for the moment and it is not final.
I would like to isolate this floor acoustically: I don't care to hear impact noises when the little one walks in his room but I don't want him to hear the sounds of conversation or TV. I also don't want to thermally insulate the floor.
anyone have ideas or proposals for materials
Adding layers of carpet, will improve thermal insulation, which you do not want, so that the pet does not catch cold ...
In this case we could assume that there is no solution by modifying the layout, since theoretically only a heavy and high density material like those mentioned by Dedeleco (lead, iron or even concrete screed) would effectively stop the sounds . But you can indeed combine the disadvantages to make it an asset.
In this perspective, some tracks:
- use wireless headphones with the TV as soon as the baby is in bed, and / or use the subtitling channels when they are available, and / or record the programs that interest you and watch them during the day - which allows you to go to bed early, since at night it is made for sleeping and not for watching TV
- what solves your biggest immediate problem;
- avoid loud voices in the evening (this too is easy to do and it costs nothing);
- invite your friends at reasonable times, even at noon ...;
- invite the son to participate occasionally in this type of evening (the biological rhythm of the children is not the same compared to ours: therefore contrary to what we previously believed a night activity would not bother them and would even be beneficial, it is in the morning that they would need to sleep, as revealed by a recent serious university study.)
- if that is not enough and the configuration of the premises allows it:
-> a) you should recover the heat from the chimney through an exchanger, to lower the energy recovered in a duct
descending the air flow to the lower floor by an efficient electric fan reaching up to 30cm from ground level ... then installing a tiled floor
good thickness earthenware and properly placed on the floor of your living room / TV, possibly previously protected by 5mm of plywood => before smoothing it
a thin chappe ad hoc (the whole, with the earthenware posed on this cap, will isolate phonically with a coef, close to that of glass, which is already not so bad, since we use it in recording studios. ..), then lay a woven carpet on a thick rubberized backing, in order to lay it over the cold tiles.
-> b) you can also arrange for the tiling to be cleared in front of and under the stove, then around and up behind, so that by its radiation heats and diffuses heat gently in the floor the screed and the tiling (a "plus" which remains minimal since it will not avoid the use of a heat exchanger ... but which will be a big plus in terms of safety to avoid setting the carpet on fire!)
Explanation: the tiles and the chappe will not thermally insulate, but will still form a barrier, which is why I suggest the solution of the circulator.
To see if your floor would support the significant weight of a tile and its support.
But in your place I would combine and combine these different possibilities with each other.
but you have to like the style 
