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QuietWalk
Our revolutionary "Quiet Walk®" laminate floor underlayment smoothes out little sub floor imperfections while quieting impact sound and floor to ceiling noise. Not only does it dampen ambient sound in the room it's installed in, but it also inhibits sound from traveling into the room below. Although it is promoted as an upgrade underlayment taking the place of poly foam, it doesn't carry a heavy upgrade price when compared to cork or rubber. On the other hand, in recent head-to-head Sound Transmission Loss tests, Quiet Walk® outperformed both cork and rubber in the majority of test band frequencies. Certified field sound tests were performed on an installation over a standard concrete sub floor, and received an FIIC score of "60". Quiet Walk® is available in 100 square foot do-it-yourself size rolls and 360 square foot contractor size rolls.
New Features
- - Increased absorbency & dissipation of moisture with added Super Absorbent Polymer (SAP) that enhances moisture carrying capacity.
- - Increased moisture barrier strength.
Sound Absorption
- - QuietWalk® filaments are randomly air-laid creating a capillary affect to cushion the floor, absorb sound, and help make laminate floors sound more like real wood.
- - Sound Transmission Loss: The sound-insulating property of a partition element is expressed in terms of the sound transmission loss. ASTME90-97, ASTM E413-87
- - Sound Transmission Class: (STC) = 54
- - Impact Sound Transmission: The method is designed to measure the impact sound transmission performance of a floor-ceiling assembly in a controlled laboratory environment. ASTM E492-90, ASTM E989-89
- - Impact Insulation Class (IIC) = 58
- - Field Impact Insulation Class: Field conducted test using standard IIC methods. As tested over 8” post-tension concrete sub-floor with no ceiling assembly
- - (FIIC) = 60
Moisture Protection
- - When installed properly QuietWalk® can wick sub-floor or incidental perimeter moisture and disperse it through the pad.
- - Moderate amounts of moisture will eventually dissipate over time by perimeter or sub-floor evaporation, provided the source of
water such as a leak is stopped.
Smoothes out minor sub-floor imperfections
- - QuietWalk® is firm enough (density=13.3lbs/ft^3; compression resistance @ 25%=9.5psi) to support the overlaying floor, but flexible enough to form around sub-floor surface roughness that may otherwise cause laminate panels to “rock” or lay unevenly.
Adds insulation value
- - QuietWalk® will add an R-Value of .50 to the floor system.
Economical
- - QuietWalk® is ideally priced as a quality upgrade from polyethylene or polystyrene film and is less than 1/2 the cost of either cork or rubber underlayment with similar sound numbers.
Made from recycled materials
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