Parquet floors in apartments
A wooden floor in an apartment calls for specialist knowledge.
Walking sounds and impact noise can significantly affect the comfort of your downstairs neighbours, and must always be kept to a minimum.
A good sound-reducing floor is therefore not a luxury, but a necessity.
Clear standards are laid down in the Dutch Building Decree, and all floors that Soares Parket Haarlem installs meet those standards.
The finest compliment for a stylish apartment is a characterful wooden floor. With the right sound-insulating systems, our experience and specialist knowledge, you can confidently choose parquet that fits the character of your apartment.
Sound-insulated parquet installation
A hard parquet floor in an apartment can cause considerable noise nuisance for the neighbours.
Footsteps create vibrations that pass directly through the concrete structure.
With the right insulation and the right installation method, those vibrations are absorbed. Our floor specialists lay the planks so they never touch the structure. The subfloor determines which sound insulation works best in your situation.
Traditional sand-cement screeds
In apartments where the screed is laid directly on the concrete, vibrations transfer through the screed onto the concrete structure.
The result? Sound that resonates into the surrounding rooms.
The Owners' Association therefore often requires a hard floor covering such as parquet to be installed in a floating manner, on a special sound-insulating intermediate layer.
Floating screeds
In new-build apartments, a floating screed is now usually applied. A special mat between the screed and the concrete absorbs the vibrations, so the sound insulation is already taken care of by the builder.
This construction is often combined with underfloor heating.
Laying parquet on such a subfloor requires specialist knowledge and accurate calculation. The floor must also remain completely free from all structural elements.
That is why it is essential to glue the parquet to the screed. This prevents the floor from working and touching the walls.
It also increases the mass of the entire floor package, which only benefits the sound insulation.
At Soares Parket Haarlem, you can rest assured that your downstairs neighbours will not unwillingly share in the experience of your wooden floor.
Fermacell and estrich
Fermacell estrich panels, levelling agents and sound-reducing felts offer the solution for installing wooden floors in old buildings with uneven structures.
New techniques suddenly make levelling, sound reduction and underfloor heating possible, even where it was once unthinkable.
Wooden floors with underfloor heating on uneven structures
Uneven wooden structures in old buildings can be levelled with Fermacell levelling granules.
We then place the estrich panels on the levelled subfloor, with grooves cut in for the heating pipes.
The estrich panels consist of elements with recycled felt and therefore have a sound-reducing effect. Thanks to this innovative technique, we can install the beautiful wooden floors of Soares Parket Haarlem in any situation.
Ready for a quiet parquet floor?
A parquet floor in your apartment is not an impossible wish.
With the right construction and insulation, you can enjoy warm, characterful wood just as much as residents of a detached house.
Our floor specialists are happy to advise you on the possibilities for your situation. Whether you live in a new build or a stately old building, together we will find a solution that your downstairs neighbours will not notice.
Call 023 583 1718 or send an email to info@soaresparket.nl.