Hi All
I am looking to have tiles in my kitchen floor in my 1st IP.
Currently the base is floorboards & I understand that its best to lay fibre cement sheeting or sand cement screed to the floorboards prior to tiling with flexible adhesive.
I have conceded to fibre cement (FC) sheeting due to the lower height difference between tiles & carpet in hallway, approx 20mm as opposed to 30-40mm with sand cement.
I have heard of instances where people have had to get their flooring ripped out & redone as they have not complied with strata by laws by installing a sound proofing layer.
I have spoken to my strata manager & he concluded that 'this conversation never happened' as although he is aware works have been done to other units, he has no register of this.n
My question is - do people usually bother in units (especially tiling of kitchen only) put an addtional layer for sound proofing?
If so, is this via a rubber matt? or via a rubber adhesive?
I would have thought the FC sheeting can provide some sound proofing?
Im almost at the end of this journey - taking longer than i planned
but have learnt enormously during the process!!
so any advice is much appreciated!
thanks
helen
I am looking to have tiles in my kitchen floor in my 1st IP.
Currently the base is floorboards & I understand that its best to lay fibre cement sheeting or sand cement screed to the floorboards prior to tiling with flexible adhesive.
I have conceded to fibre cement (FC) sheeting due to the lower height difference between tiles & carpet in hallway, approx 20mm as opposed to 30-40mm with sand cement.
I have heard of instances where people have had to get their flooring ripped out & redone as they have not complied with strata by laws by installing a sound proofing layer.
I have spoken to my strata manager & he concluded that 'this conversation never happened' as although he is aware works have been done to other units, he has no register of this.n
My question is - do people usually bother in units (especially tiling of kitchen only) put an addtional layer for sound proofing?
If so, is this via a rubber matt? or via a rubber adhesive?
I would have thought the FC sheeting can provide some sound proofing?
Im almost at the end of this journey - taking longer than i planned
but have learnt enormously during the process!!
so any advice is much appreciated!
thanks
helen