Placo® phonique is a very efficient acoustic insulation system that reduces surrounding sound pollution to enjoy its accommodation in peace. Tips to equip or renovate your interior.
Because noise pollution can be an important source of discomfort and stress, it is essential to be able to enjoy a calm environment at home. To protect yourself from the best of outside noise or from neighbors not always very discreet, it is interesting to isolate your accommodation from an acoustic point of view. Placo® phonique is an option of choice to improve the sound comfort of its interior. It allows reduce noise by around 50% which surrounds us thanks to innovative insulating properties.
Launched in 2007, the Placo® phonique is a plasterboard whose structure of the heart has been worked for Improve its ability to amortize noise and thus offer better acoustic performance. By nature, this type of material has excellent insulating properties, in terms of fire resistance for example but also noise attenuation. A traditional plasterboard indeed reduces the sound volume of 39 decibels. Placo® phonique allows it to Reduce these additional 3 db noise pollution, a perception of the noise level decreased by around 50%. Performance generally superior to the thresholds established by the NRA (new acoustic regulations, adopted in 2000), which defines comfort objectives.
Good sound insulation helps preserve conviviality in living rooms by limiting the propagation of noise in the surrounding rooms. Thanks to its acoustic performance, this type of partition makes it possible to reduce noise pollution, especially in rooms where you need calm, even silence, such as bedrooms for example. Placo® phonique still exists in a water -repellent version, to isolate a bathroom or a kitchen in the same way.
Note: This type of sound insulation is not effective than to reduce discomfort due to so -called air (Shards of voice, television, music, outdoor traffic, etc.), he has no action on impact noises, the neighbor’s neighbor who hammers the parquet with his heels for example, or the two -story drill above.
To ensure optimal comfort, It is imperative to analyze the noise source well. The difficulty here is therefore to realize A good acoustic diagnosis of your accommodation To find out where the “flight” comes from and isolate in the right place. It is therefore better to call on a professional. An acoustician will indeed be able to identify the problem zones, compared to the neighborhood but also inside the house itself according to the configuration of the parts, to measure the degree of nuisance and to offer the most suitable solution.
Whether we want to isolate a wall or a ceiling, the Placo® phonique settles quite easily thanks to a metal structure on which we screw the plasterboard. On a new work, we start by placing the metal frame, the partitions are then fixed on each side (for an even more efficient partition, we can install two plates on each side). An insulation, type glass wool, is also installed inside. Study for minimum size, Such a structure is about 7 cm thick (Count almost 10 cm with a double plate).
To improve the existing, we will achieve here what is called dubbing. After installing a plywood on which we will fix the metal frame, we then screw the placo on the rails. To reduce the surface loss, there are slightly thinner plates (count here about 5 cm thick in total), but these are slightly less efficient.
It all depends of course on the surface to be isolate. This type of material remains nevertheless accessible in terms of price: compared to a traditional plasterboard, count approximately 2 euros more per square meter.
Thanks to Stéphane Harmel, Plates and Systems product manager at Placquoplâtre, for his advice.
