Hi
UK resident here, first posting. My apartment is one of 4 in a large residential property which was converted in the 70's (before the strict sound regulations came into play). My bedroom is above a large living area below where there is lots of TV, music and particularly conversation noise. They easily possess the loudest voices humanity has yet produced. It's a timber floor and it already has some rockwool between the joists. I caulked all the gaps between the floorboards, caulked all other gaps and around the room, and taped over them. Then I put down a thin layer of laminate underlayment, 2 layers of MLV, caulked and taped, then layed down a combination crumb rubber/felt padding, then the carpet. To my utter dismay, although the TV noise is substantially less, the conversation noise is still ridiculously loud and I'm considering killing them. I get the feeling that just adding more MLV won't do the job. Can anyone suggest what I can do? I think a floating floor is out of question as I suspect the floor won't support it.