I have a bedroom below the living room of my tennants, who keep different hours than me. I can hear their TV/stereo and footfalls. Their floor is a wood laminate with a cork underlayment and a carpet pad (leftover from the carpet that used to be up there) under that. Structurally speaking the configuration is a little unusual in that the staircase that they use to access their apartment is on the other side of one of my bedroom walls. This staircase is open at the top, allowing sound to travel from the upstairs down to our level, and the wall that divides the staircase from our bedroom reaches all the way up into their living room, collecting soun vibrations and creating somewhat of a bridge between the apartments.
I purchased the supersound clips from you and installed a floating ceiling and floating wall on my bedroom side of the adjoining wall. I caulked all around the edges and in between the pieces of drywall. The sound is reduced but not as significantly as I hoped. I can still hear the base of their stereo/TV and the footfalls are barely reduced.
I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. If I put my ear to the wall, even on the opposite side of the room as their stereo and TV are, I can hear the sound very clearly. I can also hear their voices very clearly with my ear to the wall. The sound is the clearest in the adjoining wall but still very present in the other walls. It's as if we are surrounded by every sound that they make.
I have ordered a small piece of the MLV Floormat (54 x 24") to put under the shelving unit they keep their stereo on. But other than that, I am out of ideas.
Any thoughts you might have would be appreciated.
Thanks,
David