Hello
We live in an LB modular house built in 1975.
It's very noisy, and you can hear everything that happens, even in the bathroom, which isn't always pleasant
. Since we also have a little girl in the house, we'd like to make it a bit more soundproof as she will probably make more noise over the years.
I've thought that during renovations (we're going over room by room), I should cover the interior walls with extra plasterboard and hope this will help a bit. My question is, what do I do with walls where there are door openings? Do I need to buy deeper frames if I make the wall thicker, or how do I solve this?
We also have creaky floors in various places in the house. I believe this is partly due to poor flooring installation (laminate), but I've also seen now, as I'm renovating the family room, that there are particle board floors (I don't think they're tongue and groove) nailed to the floor joists, where the nails often haven't gone into the joists but just outside.
Do you think it's possible to get rid of most of the creaking by screwing down the particle boards properly when tearing up the laminate floor? Another option is to lay a layer of flooring plasterboard to stiffen the floor a bit as well, but the problem then is that the entire floor would need to be raised? Not something we're directly keen on, as we've already renovated some rooms. How do you deal with door openings when raising the floor? Do you have to reframe the walls and raise the threshold level, or is there a better way (trim the door leaf, haha)?
These darn interior doors are driving me crazy.
Thanks for some input on the subject.
We live in an LB modular house built in 1975.
It's very noisy, and you can hear everything that happens, even in the bathroom, which isn't always pleasant
. Since we also have a little girl in the house, we'd like to make it a bit more soundproof as she will probably make more noise over the years.I've thought that during renovations (we're going over room by room), I should cover the interior walls with extra plasterboard and hope this will help a bit. My question is, what do I do with walls where there are door openings? Do I need to buy deeper frames if I make the wall thicker, or how do I solve this?
We also have creaky floors in various places in the house. I believe this is partly due to poor flooring installation (laminate), but I've also seen now, as I'm renovating the family room, that there are particle board floors (I don't think they're tongue and groove) nailed to the floor joists, where the nails often haven't gone into the joists but just outside.
Do you think it's possible to get rid of most of the creaking by screwing down the particle boards properly when tearing up the laminate floor? Another option is to lay a layer of flooring plasterboard to stiffen the floor a bit as well, but the problem then is that the entire floor would need to be raised? Not something we're directly keen on, as we've already renovated some rooms. How do you deal with door openings when raising the floor? Do you have to reframe the walls and raise the threshold level, or is there a better way (trim the door leaf, haha)?
These darn interior doors are driving me crazy.
Thanks for some input on the subject.
Hello again
So you can buy those?
Then that problem is solved.
But now to what I think might be tricky to solve.
The floor creaks a bit here and there, in the bathroom quite a lot.
This needs to be resolved and should be included in the planning throughout the renovation. Therefore, it is important to make a plan now on how to address this before it's too late.
195 mm joists with cc40 are underneath 19 mm particle board. Most likely it is not glued and it is nailed to the joists. Most likely this is also the reason the floor creaks. You can clearly hear that it's not the laminate floor that's "cracking" but rather wood against wood creaking and it both sounds and feels.
What raises a question mark in my head is that the interior walls are mounted on the particle board floor. Then it immediately becomes a bit more difficult to replace the particle boards, right? Can the old particle boards be removed all the way to the interior walls and thus let the interior walls remain on the old boards? Or how should it be done?
Also attaching a drawing of how it looks
So you can buy those?
Then that problem is solved.
But now to what I think might be tricky to solve.
The floor creaks a bit here and there, in the bathroom quite a lot.
This needs to be resolved and should be included in the planning throughout the renovation. Therefore, it is important to make a plan now on how to address this before it's too late.
195 mm joists with cc40 are underneath 19 mm particle board. Most likely it is not glued and it is nailed to the joists. Most likely this is also the reason the floor creaks. You can clearly hear that it's not the laminate floor that's "cracking" but rather wood against wood creaking and it both sounds and feels.
What raises a question mark in my head is that the interior walls are mounted on the particle board floor. Then it immediately becomes a bit more difficult to replace the particle boards, right? Can the old particle boards be removed all the way to the interior walls and thus let the interior walls remain on the old boards? Or how should it be done?
Also attaching a drawing of how it looks
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