intermediate timber floors in converted dwellings - sound insulation
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Failure: unacceptable sound transmission through floors which are required to act as separating floors in dwellings converted to multiple occupancy
Defects: insufficient mass; inadequate isolation/resilience against impact sound; airborne sound paths
Originally published February 1984; minor revisions March 1985.