If in a residential building, you need to ensure that your building has some form of acoustic floor treatment to comply with Part E of the Building Regulations 2010, ‘Resistance to the passage of sound.’
If in a school or college, you must also install acoustic flooring, to meet BB93 standards as well as Building Regulations.
JCW Acoustic Flooring will help to minimise both airborne and impact noise, stopping both from travelling to the lower and upper floors of the building.
Airborne sound, as the name suggests, refers to sounds that travel through the air, including speaking, radio and TV noise, dogs barking, and the sound of cars starting, while impact sounds relate to physical impact on buildings or solid materials. This includes the noise of walking, the opening and closing of doors, people jumping, etc.
Failure to soundproof effectively for these types of sounds can lead to not only legal implications from breaking building regulations but very unhappy residents.