Acoustic Underlay
Looking to up the comfort and quietness of your space? Acoustic underlay solutions are designed to greatly reduce airborne and impact noise. That means they’re excellent for residential and commercial conditions.
Have timber flooring? Concrete floors? Or perhaps a different type? Our soundproofing underlay solutions, including MuteMat® OSF 750-10, MuteMat® OSF 750-03 and more, provide the best noise control to meet your needs.
Our Selection of Acoustic Underlays
Each type of acoustic underlay we offer delivers superior sound insulation properties to help reduce airborne noise and impact noise. Here’s a closer look at our products:
MuteMat 2 and MuteMat 3: Great for timber and concrete floors, these soundproof underlay options offer high mass and multi-layered construction which achieves a fantastic impact noise reduction.
MuteMat OSF 750 – 05 and MuteMat USP 750 – 08: These are perfect for laminate, engineered wood and luxury vinyl tiles, equipping your floor with a thin yet effective barrier against noise. They’re a premium pick for acoustic underlays.
Pricing
Our acoustic flooring insulation starts from just £6.25 + VAT per square metre. Need detailed pricing? Email us or give us a ring.
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How to Choose and Install Your Acoustic Underlay Flooring Material
Choosing the right sound insulation acoustic underlay can be essential for your flooring type and distinct soundproofing needs. Here’s how to select and install it:
Laminate Flooring: Opt for our high-density acoustic underlays like the MuteMat 2, which also works well with our MuteClip Acoustic Clip system for even better sound insulation.
Concrete Floors: Our MuteMat OSF 750 – 03 and MuteMat OSF 750 – 05 are highly recommended for large-scale residential and commercial projects looking for soundproof over-screed or under-screed.
Installation Tips:
- Make sure the floor is clean and level before installation.
- Follow our step-by-step guide within the ‘Installation Guide’ section for each product.
Compliance and Sustainability
MuteMat can be used within our soundproofing floor designs, to achieve the minimum performance standards of Part E Building Regulations. They are tested rigorously to ensure outstanding performance in reducing sound transmission through floors. Also, we’re green, and you’ll notice many of our underlays are made from recycled materials.
FAQs
Acoustic underlay is specifically designed to help reduce airborne and impact sound within a floor system. It can be used within both timber and concrete floors and is a great way of reducing impact sound with minimal fuss when it comes to installation. Acoustic underlay is essentially a rubber-resilient layer that is traditionally installed underneath the final floor finish isolating/decoupling the flooring from the structure of the building. The resilient layer and flanking strip around the perimeter provide suspension and cushioning in the floor primarily reducing impact sound transference.
Acoustic underlay and acoustic flooring both prevent and reduce noise transmission in buildings, but each option has unique benefits.
While acoustic underlay goes beneath a range of flooring materials, acoustic flooring reduces noise transmission.
It’s often made from cork, recycled materials or rubber, and has a textured surface to absorb acoustic vibrations.
Acoustic underlay is best for mitigating impact noise and suits all budgets, while acoustic flooring is more expensive, but it can prevent airborne noises.
Acoustic underlays are primarily designed to reduce impact sound within a floor system. The purpose of the acoustic underlay is to minimise mechanical fixings and rigid stiff connections between the final floor finish and the structure of the building. Typically the thickness of the acoustic underlay will dictate the level of impact reduction it can provide, the thicker and more elastic the underlay the greater the impact sound reduction, as the acoustic underlay should act as a spring pushing back against footfall.
Acoustic underlays can also help reduce some airborne sound, but this will typically only be within timber floor constructions. Acoustic underlays are traditionally not used to improve airborne sound but if by installing the acoustic underlay the proportional mass of the systems is increased and the product helps in providing an air-tight seal to the floor system, you can achieve a noticeable improvement.
Floating floors can come in multiple forms including:
Acoustic Underlays for Timber Floors – There are 3 types of acoustic underlay that we advise within our soundproofing floor designs they include Mutemat 2, Mutemat 3 and Mutemat OSF 750 – 10. Mutemat 2 and 3 provide superior impact sound reduction due to being high mass and multi-layered, the Mutemat OSF 750 -10 provide a more cost-effective alternative.
Acoustic Underlays for Concrete Floors – There are two product types for concrete floors, including over screed acoustic underlay and under screed acoustic underlay. Within concrete floors, you can achieve high levels of impact sound reduction with thin 3 – 5mm acoustic underlays.
All types of acoustic underlays are used within our soundproofing floor designs to help achieve the requirements of Part E of the Building Regulations. Any acoustic floating floor will have to be installed with an appropriate acoustic ceiling solution below.
The soundproofing wall designs and soundproofing floor designs sections of our website show multiple designs to help achieve the requirements of Part E of the building regulations. Acoustic underlays are one of our more popular products due to them typically being cheaper than acoustic floating floors and the installation costs also being lower. Depending on your chosen floor finish some of the more elastic acoustic underlays, Mutemat 2 and Mutemat 3, may require to be overlain with a 9mm Plywood. This will be dependent on your final floor finish.
The more popular timber floor systems that use acoustic underlay are:
MuteMat 2 – Within this timber soundproofing floor system the Mutemat 2 is simply installed within a traditional timber joist construction with dense mineral wool between the joists and a MuteClip Acoustic Clip ceiling below.
The more popular concrete floor systems that use acoustic underlays are:
MuteMat OSF 750 – 05 – Over-screed Acoustic Underlay – Within this concrete soundproofing floor system the Mutemat OSF750 – 05 is installed over the concrete floor with an acoustic suspended ceiling below.
MuteMat USP 750 -08 – Under-screed Acoustic Underlay – Within this concrete soundproofing floor system the Mutemat USP 750 – 08 is installed over the concrete floor with an acoustic suspended ceiling below.
There are various other sound insulation designs for floors and walls to achieve Part E compliance on the soundproofing advice section of our website.
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