Carpet Making Sound

If your floors are nailed down to the subfloor the popping noise could be coming from the nails.

Carpet making sound.

For some reason the underlay was making the squeaking noise. The installers came around and lifted the carpet. While this doesn t mean your floors are defective there are various reasons it can occur. Adding padding and carpet to your flooring will greatly reduce noises such as footsteps.

Putting an expensive hotel quality felt pad underneath will make the carpet feel better to walk on but makes little difference to the sound. Even with proper installation however there s a risk that the foam carpet padding could make just as much noise as it deadens. At the same time carpet reduces noise in the living space itself as well as noise from neighbours. A highly absorbent carpet can have an nrc of 30 while a poorly absorbent one can have an nrc of 5.

Sometimes you might walk across your floors and hear a popping or creaking noise. A material s power to absorb sound varies with frequency. You can add a dense felt carpet pad thicker the better for sound and you will have a quiet carpet. Persian carpet this is by far the best acoustic.

Since carpet is an exceptional sound absorber carpet can reduce the sound of walking by 25 to 34 decibels whereas laminate flooring reduces surface sounds by only 1 to 6 decibels. Consider it a gift to your neighbours. Carpet and padding can even be installed over your existing hard floor if necessary. They re not 100 sure why it was making the noise possibly a manufacturing fault.

The cause of noise from the padding can not only be a defect in the. The sound happens when a plank. Thankfully the problem was not particularly serious. B if the carpet has a loose knap and an open weave unsealed back then you are in luck.

The noise reduction coefficient nrc is a grade given to a material to show how well it works with controlling the sound in a room. They cut a small section away around 1 inch squared and the noise went away.