My floor in a purpose-built block consists of a concrete base to which long parallel lengths of approx. 5cm x 3cm wood have been screwed about 30cm apart. Floorboards are screwed to these lengths at right-angles, leaving a series of long voids across the whole floor.
When we recently got rid of the carpet and its underlay and laid on top of the floorboards a layer of best quality wood-floor insulation with a 2cm-thick oak floor on top of that, neighbours underneath (and above!) started complaining about the noise and have continued ever since.
It seems to me that the voids between the concrete floor and the floorboards are now acting as sounding boards. What would you use to fill up these voids, and before screwing back the floorboards, what about adding a very thin layer of insulation to the top of each long parallel length of wood first?
Or maybe there's another option entirely that doesn't involve taking everything up? Drilling holes and pumping something in? Trouble with that is, there are pipes and cables underneath. I don't want to replace the carpet, though.
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