Our Pathway to Successful Sound Testing
Sound Insulation Site Audits
We can undertake acoustic site audits, to let us view the existing site construction. This allows us to check for potential problematic areas such as the inclusion of lightweight blocks within the existing wall construction. It also lets us check that the installation teams are installing the acoustic materials as per manufacturer’s guidelines, thus avoiding crucial onsite mistakes. In our experience a sound test failure is often due to the poor workmanship rather than the actual design. The site survey visits negate the risk of sound test failure.
We can also undertake sample sound insulation testing of the existing construction. This offers an accurate overview of the acoustic performance of the existing partitions, which enables us to offer a targeted acoustic design which takes into account the performance of the existing construction.
Acoustic Defect Diagnosis & Remedial Advice
With many years’ experience in building acoustics, we are able to diagnose the reasons for the sound test failure and recommend a cost-effective solution. Often, the reasons for the partition failure are obvious to the test engineer in which case the advice will be minimal and subsequently the cost for acoustic design advice will be minimal. Sometimes, there are more technical issues which require more detailed diagnosis and invasive investigation, such as large amounts of noise flanking due to serious design faults, e.g. poor material isolation.
Precompletion Sound Testing
To help enforce good acoustic design principles pre-completion sound testing was introduced July 2003, this resulted in all new build properties and conversions which were built after this date are require 10% of each party wall/floor construction type to be tested.
Precompletion Sound Testing is carried out between pairs of rooms separated by party walls or floors. The two ‘habitable’ areas that usually require sound testing are living rooms and bedrooms, although other rooms can be tested if this is not possible, i.e. kitchen to bedroom.
If you need sound insulation testing and acoustic design, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@aptsoundtesting.co.uk or call me on 07775623464