[MsRetrofit] – created 07:48pm May 13, 2002 EST
I live in an 100 year old Victorian Home, in Halifax, Nova
Scotia. The problem I am having is trying to reduce the sound
factor between the two units. Oh yea it is a set of flats. Two
bedrooms downstairs and three bedrooms up. Background:
When we bought this house, it was newly renovated. 90% of
the walls had been removed and replaced with gyroc walls.
The ceilings in the lower unit were drooped by nine inches and
somebody made an effort to install resilent channeling for the
sound. It doesn,t work. This has been an ongoing problem for
years. I have lived downstairs for 26 years and the traffic
overhead is getting to be unbearable. We are in the process of
getting new tenants soon. We are a Coop and into families.
We have installed a carpet in the long hallway upstairs that
must stay. There no other carpets in the upstairs to reduce the
impact noise and carpets are not an option. The construction
of the house is Balloon Frame construction. It has Force air
Heating, meaning all upper unit ducts run thro my unit. We have
a hard time renting this unit, especially if it involves little
children. We hear very clearly conversations upstairs and visa
versa.Stereos have to be played with no base on and
speakers have to off the floor. We even can hear the phone
messages. The bathroom noise are very blunt.(if you know
what i mean). The house is like living in a canyon. One solution
we have tried last year was to blown in insulation between the
ceiling and floor up above. We were able to fill all the cavities
from end to end. The exterior walls had blown in insulation
