Carpet Padding Sound Absorption

A felt pad can do a good job of trapping some of the noise.

Carpet padding sound absorption.

Woven wool it is a material denser than cotton and with better sound absorbing qualities. Carpet padding help to reduce both footstep noise and airborne noise. Also wool is friends with the environment if you want to check this box as well. At 3 8 thick it will match your existing pad thickness and it provides excellent airborne noise blocking because it weighs 1 65 lbs sq ft.

What to look for. The big three stc sound transmission class stc is simply a numeric value defining how well a building or in this case a floor is at reducing the effect of airborne noise. Avoid carpets with rubber back seal. Carpet and a pad even the heaviest pad available cannot block noise from loud kids stereo tv noise floor to floor noise from bars restaurants and commercial tenants.

Felt underlayment the back of a carpet can weigh heavy. Carpet padding is a soundproof. Sound absorbing carpet padding carpets with a cheap pad don t perform as well as a carpet with a thicker more dense noise absorbent padding. Sound absorption sound absorption coefficients the fraction of incident sound energy that is absorbed by a material usually vary strongly with frequency.

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