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Options for Replacing Upstairs Flooring

  • 04-07-2016 3:13pm
    #1
    gerrybbadd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,

    The upstairs flooring in my house is really beginning to become an issue for me and my wife. Basically what it is, is MDF board, screwed down into the joyces, with just a floating click lock floor laid over.

    Now these MDF panels are really noisy and creaky. Even to put weight on them makes them creak. It's really madly laid as well, with humps in places. Somebody walking upstairs sounds like thunder downstairs, and the noise of somebody even tip toeing wakes our two boys, both under 2.

    It would be handy to get rid of the MDF from underneath, but what are my options from there then? Would it be at all possible to put concrete in, to make for a more solid, and hopefully, more soundproof solution?

    Thanks guys
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  • #2
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,888 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    This may help
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057615520
    As for concrete floors retrofitted, forget about it.

    re
    and the noise of somebody even tip toeing wakes our two boys, both under 2.
    That I find very hard to believe.

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #3
    gerrybbadd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    This may help
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057615520
    As for concrete floors retrofitted, forget about it.

    re
    and the noise of somebody even tip toeing wakes our two boys, both under 2.
    That I find very hard to believe.

    Thanks.

    Whether you find it hard to believe or not, it's the truth. Even rocking my 6 month old to sleep makes the floor creak. Standing still!


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