City apartments have a lot of advantages over rural housing, but sometimes neighbors kill us with their rumbling, squealing working drills, dragging furniture and an endless cry that I want to escape to the country wilderness without looking back. Therefore, the desire to somehow protect their homes from this horror for many comes to the fore. Only here to find the best soundproof material for floor, walls and ceiling - this is also a difficult problem. There are many similar materials on the market, but their properties are very different. You need to understand what kind of noise you most create problems, calculate your finances, and then choose a way to get rid of it.
The most popular types of sound-proof materials for walls
- Mineral wool . This material has elasticity, light weight, good, both sound-proof and thermal insulation characteristics. Serves a mineral water for a long time, but it requires special preparatory work in the form of a carcass installation. Alas, but you can not glue the wallpaper over cotton wool, you'll have to install gypsum boards or decorative panels from another material.
- Basalt cardboard . It differs from mineral wool by its greater density, and is supplied in sheets. Basalt cardboard is easy to use, it can be glued to inorganic glue. It is excellent for providing fire protection and insulation of the room.
- ZIPS-Module . This material is a sandwich panel made of a combination of gypsum fiber and mineral fiber. This system by some characteristics is the best soundproofing material for walls, than a mineral wool or a basalt cardboard. To fix sandwich panels do not need a frame, they can be installed directly on the wall. In addition, they have grooves, much easier to assemble the structure.
- Sound insulation board made of wood fiber . Plates like Isoplat (ISOPLAAT) and similar materials are made from softwood fibers. In their composition there are no harmful impurities, which is important in the conditions of living quarters. Work with them does not differ in complexity from working with plywood, for fixing enough nails, staples and joinery glue. The isoplate is suitable for acoustic and thermal insulation of walls, ceilings and floors, being an excellent alternative to gypsum boards and other sheet materials.
- Soundproof panels . From this series, the most popular are the high-quality ISOTEX panels made from softwood. This is a rather thin material for soundproofing walls and ceiling, which is easy to install, wash, change if necessary and even painted. Above the panels have a decorative vinyl coating, which is very durable. Install ISOTEX, both on the crate, and on a flat wall with glue.
- Soundproof panels made of laminated cardboard . For example, you can bring panels of the brand "EkoZvukoIzol" made of seven-layer cardboard and mineral filler based on quartz sand. This material can be safely included in the list of the best materials for sound insulation for the ceiling and walls. Panels can be mounted simply, withstand great compression, they can be used as a dry screed. The partition , created with the application of "EkoZvukoIzol", has a sound insulation higher than twice the thick concrete wall.
- Roll underlay under the wallpaper . This noise isolator is used in rooms where the frame can not be installed. For example, polythene foamed polythene substrate is suitable for further gluing on the wallpaper and warms the walls well, replacing the quality of the brickwork with a thickness of 12.5 cm. Similar properties are provided by roll cushioning materials based on cork. But it should be warned that this product is only a light noise-absorbing material, much inferior to this parameter to its competitors.
Let's add at last that the best result can be achieved by combining different materials for soundproofing walls and ceilings. It should be remembered that even ordinary drywall can significantly reduce extraneous noise. Therefore, the "layered pie" of several special plates and minvats will surely save you from importunate noise from neighbors.