The issue of noise bleed through a connected ceiling-floor structure leads many home and business owners to seek a sound reduction solution to combat the problem. When a person walks across a floor in an upstairs room, the resulting sound vibrations travel through the floor and become audible in the room below. Unless specifically designed to break down sound waves and prevent the transmission of vibrations, the common surface of an adjoined floor and ceiling provides a perfect means of transmitting noise between the two rooms sharing the surface. Rather than blocking sound waves from reaching the room below, the floor serves as a common surface through which structure-borne vibrations can easily travel and become audible in the adjoining room. Combating the problem of noise transmission between rooms which share a ceiling-floor structure involves inhibiting the ability of the shared surface to freely transmit vibrations, which is accomplished by increasing density and establishing a disconnection between the two surfaces to force the breakdown of sound waves.

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