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[Joe50]

Acoustic renovations outcomes advice:

I live top floor of apartments building.

Upwards noise from downstairs neighbour is awful. Not there fault just cracks in concrete slab or maybe the poor flooring in my unit(thin artificial timber-very small underlay).

The ceiling(concrete slab) can’t be knocked out(common property), but can better flooring in my unit reduce the “Impact Noise”?

The owner is a nice woman and has agreed to let an accosutic consultant in her apartment(tenated).

The point is after the tap test is done, will improved flooring in my unit reduce the impact noise?

Or is soundproofing of flooring pointless, and it’s just about the ceiling(concrete slab)?

As I hope it’s not concrete slab as that becomes an issue for the OC.

*NSW location my apartment.

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[Jimmy-T]

Before we dive too deeply into this, I’m curious to know what kind of noise it is. TV sound, voices, footsteps, water flow? They are all different and might require different solutions.

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[Joe50]

Door slams(bedroom cubbard doors), and toilet doors(front door of the bathroom).

So it’s impact noise not airborne noise I think.  Want to reduce the door slam decibel . In other words hear it faintly as opposed to loudly. The apartment I bought 6 months ago has old artificial timber flooring and very thin underlay.

im not asking for perfect soundproofing , but as noise travels all directions eg upwards and downwards, sidewards. I want to sound proof the downstairs door slams . Acoustic consultant will run tests eg tap tests or something similar, then come up with acoustic solutions.

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