What is The Best Ways to Sound Insulate the basement for a tennant

Correction– should be-

If you seal all crevices in the dwelling, carbon dioxide will build up and stops a person breathing – it is NOT very good, because one is not aware it is happening-exactly the same as with unflued heaters – very, very not good – tragic has v sholom

Please excuse the “inquisition”-these are important questions.

For the people upstairs-

Thick carpet on floors or many rugs if there is no carpet.

People to wear slippers indoors.

No hammering chicken to make schnitzel – everything a stew and chulent for Shabbos.

No throwing items in the kitchen. No throwing items anywhere,

No shouting.

No running, No jumping.

No dragging furniture along bare floors – lift and put down gently.

After 9 p.m. remembering that its bedtime for a lot of people and to be even quieter than before.

Ask if situation improved.

Any use?

getzel1–

Instead of just regurgitating what I read, here are a few suggestions:

3) Potential solutions can be very different, depending on whether the basement currently has a ceiling or is exposed joists.

6) Mass Loaded Vinyl is another material that some people recommend as a component to soundproofing.

7) Different frequencies of sound are blocked more or less effectively, depending on what you do.

big deal–

Did you do the work yourself?

If so:

What method did you use? Existing ceiling, green glue, new sheetrock? New sheetrock, green glue, new sheetrock? Did you use sound clips? Insulation? Anything else?

If not:

Did you have it done professionally? Would you recommend the person or company that did it?

There are so many ways to go about this conversation. You’re most in luck if this is new construction. Then i would say to apply it on plywood of floor and cover again with another plywood.

if you do it from the ceiling, it would probably help but not as much because of all the light fixtures, vents… that would go thru it.

I think a double floor is a waste of money.

green glue on the wall between layers of sheetrock helps alot although not perfect.

I don’t see any benefits of the foam. I don’t remember the name of company that did the work. sorry.

big deal–

Good point re: the flooring.

I neglected to mention that other sites also mentioned “floating” flooring as an effective component in vibration absorption and noise blocking.

I am assuming that this is an already finished house, where a ceiling is easier to work on and add stuff to than a floor would be.

On one of the threads I read on this subject, people were discussing running a separate trunk line for the central heat & a/c in the basement, just to avoid having noise from other rooms travel thru the vents. I can also think of some ways of avoiding fixtures and their boxes create pathways for the noise to travel thru, the most extreme being to use wiremold (or conduit) – but I would look into it to see if that made sense or was too extreme.

getzel1–

You probably also saw this, but “Roxul stone wool” is something like insulation which is also (according to several people) effective in dampening noise.

“…the problem is when talking to people that did either each person has very varied opinions.“

Hopefully, they had success stories using different methods, which means there’s more than one way to approach this, as opposed to contradictory info as to what works and what doesn’t.

It seems that there isn’t only one “right way” of going about this; there are several different methods that can be used, some together, and each one will help.