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Whether you’re specifying flooring for a hospital, corporate office, hotel or multifamily setting, chances are at one point you will be asked about the acoustic performance of the product. Acoustically-friendly floors allow patients a quiet recovery environment, vinyl flooring dubai employees a quiet workplace with minimal disruption, guests a calm and comfortable stay and residents an environment that feels like home.

Luxury vinyl flooring undergoes a couple of tests, receiving scores on each one, to evaluate its acoustical qualities: Impact Insulation Class (IIC) and Delta IIC (ΔIIC). What does each of these tests measure and how does Karndean Designflooring fare?

Acoustic Tests for Luxury Vinyl

Impact Insulation Class (IIC) evaluates the transmission of impact sound through a floor, such as footsteps. To conduct this test, the ASTM E492, a standard tapping machine consisting of five hammers strikes the floor at a total rate of ten times each second. In a room vinyl flooring dubai price  below the floor, the sound that comes through is measured along 16 frequency bands or  levels and used to calculate a single figure, which becomes the IIC rating.

 While the IIC rating of the luxury vinyl is important, the Delta IIC is really the more telling number because it shows by how many decibels the luxury vinyl reduces sound transmission. It’s also the easiest number to compare across manufacturers or product lines, giving you the best representation of a product’s ability to reduce noise transmission in a finished building.

IIC of Luxury Vinyl 

You may also be familiar with the ASTM E90 and E413, which are standards for testing Sound Transmission Class (STC). These tests measure vinyl flooring installation airborne sound, such as talking, music or television sound. Because STC is not affected by luxury vinyl  tile flooring, our floors are not tested for this. This would apply to wall panels in a space, for example.

We offer three different formats of flooring (gluedown, loose lay and rigid core), and each type has a different thickness. The thickness of a product will affect its acoustic qualities – the thicker the product, typically, the better the acoustic rating.

Best Design Flooring Performance

All Karndean Designflooring planks and tiles are tested in accordance with ASTM standards and specifications and are performed by a third party. IIC tests can be performed on a number of different assemblies, but our scores listed below were on a 6” slab with a drop ceiling assembly.

Whether from foot traffic, carts or vibrating machinery, floors bear the brunt of impact within your building. The sound energy generated by this impact can vinyl flooring kitchen be  transmitted through the structure of your building, distorting noise and disturbing workers, guests or residents. Acoustic flooring is designed to insulate impact noise, preventing its transmission from your flooring into the rooms below.

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