I own a two unit apartment house, one unit on the first floor one on the second floor.
I would like to lessen the amount of noise transfer from the second floor to the first floor. It has been suggest that besides the application of carpet and padding, that an application of a 1/2″ layer of homosote board to the floors under the carpet and pad may help. The material is rigid enough to take the foot traffic and will cut noise transfer.
Does anyone agree, or do you have another idea?
SRFCS
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2" of litecrete.
fka (formerly known as) blue
There have been a number of discussions of decreasing noise transmission between floors. Homosote could probably be part of the solution, but you may also need to decouple other possible avenues of sound energy transmission.
If you do a Breaktime search on "noise" and/or similar terms, you should turn up a wealth of information.
Weight, rigidity (in the plane of the floor), elasticity (vertically), damping (ie, rubbery). Any of those will help. A combination of all is better.
The Homosote should help; it incorporates significant rigidity with non-trivial amounts of weight and damping. How much it'll help is hard to say.