Does Changing from Carpet to Wooden Floor affect the noise level?

[Pete Masterson]

The OEM flooring was carpet, foam rubber pad, 3/4" plywood, then sheet steel.

The flooring I purchased was individual planks, I used an (overpriced) adhesive
as recommended by the vendor and they also recommended putting 1/4" cork
"underlayment" on top of the plywood. The area near the galley where I pulled up
the tile had gotten a bit roughed up -- so I cut out the torn up sub floor and
pieced in a new sheet -- then used a "leveling compound" on the bit of left over
rough area (that I couldn't cut out) and over the new joints. Although the sub
floor was pretty level, I was more comfortable with having the uniformity of the
extra 1/4" cork.

It seems as if BB upgraded the underlayment/subfloor in the LXI compared to the
'95. BIrch underlayment is commonly used under various flooring materials --
indeed, I have it under the vinyl in my home kitchen, etc...

Pete Masterson
95 WBDA 42'
On the road at West Yellowstone, MT -- leaving for St. Regis, MT tomorrow
morning.

On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at 08:32AM, "david brady"
wrote:
>Pete,
>
>Was the cork subfloor something you added or was it part of the
>original BlueBird subfloor? I ask cause Ernie's installing a hardwood
>floor in my coach and BB sandwiched cork between 3/4" marine
>plywood and 1/2" birch subflooring on my LXi.
>
>Thanks,
>David Brady
>'02 LXi, NC
>
>Pete Masterson wrote:
>>
>>
>> I installed bamboo flooring from the front of my coach to the bedroom
>> door (I have a side-aisle around the bath). I installed it over a cork
>> sub-floor. Noise levels are about the same as when I had the carpet.
>> Smells a lot better, though!
>>
>> Pete Masterson
>> 95 WL wbda 42
>> On the road at West Yellowstone, MT.
>>
>> On Tuesday, June 09, 2009, at 08:30PM, "Curt Sprenger"
>> > wrote:
>> >The carpet was removed in our coach. Bamboo flooring installed from the
>> >front of the bus through the salon and the kitchen area. No difference in
>> >noise that I can tell.
>> >
>> >Curt Sprenger
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>> >On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Jack and Liz Pearce
>>
>> >> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Howdy.
>> >> Have you taken out the carpet from your Bird's living room and
>> replaced it
>> >> with a wooden floor? If so, what effect did this have on the noise
>> level
>> >> when traveling in your coach? Please write and let us know.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> TIA,
>> >> Jack and Liz Pearce
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Jack and Liz Pearce
>> >> Fulltiming in a 1993 Wanderlodge WB40
>> >> D'Hanis, TX in the winter
>> >> Buena Vista, CO in the summer
>> >>
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>> >
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