denim insulation

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I have been trying to find insulation webbing when I had time today. We are not looking for a total block of the sound just hoping to make it a little quieter. We have our son and daughter-in-law come out at least once a year and they asked to use the basement once my husband no longer was able to utilize his work room down there. We put up curtains, got a futon and a few things, but wanted it finished to the point where there was an actual room there, it has an egress window the house was built in 2006. I tried turning on an internet radio that is right above the heat duct and you can barely hear that, but when my husband would walk across the floor it was plenty clear from the creaking of the laminate flooring. We could put carpetting in, but I prefer keeping the laminate in, I find it easier to care for, but we could go that route if necessary, but for now we want to explore the insulation attempt. Can you give me a little more information about the webbing?

rahayes good to hear that your husband has not given up the fight.

My wife is dealing with her mother have two types of Cancer right now. One is so rare, that a lot of Onocologists have never heard about it. She is a Stage 3.

Also my wife is dealing with her 97 year old grandmother having serious health issues.

Of course I am just a bundle of joy, because of my bones hate me and I deal with a lot of arthritis pain.

As long as he is still moving around, he is doing the right thing. The anti-biotics is more of a bandaid it sounds like.

You have a lot of support in this group from all of us who are either dealing with health issues or know someone. So we do know all of the tricks to help find ways for the noise dampening and such.

so kind

Thank you GregZoll, I don't know how far to go with these things, but we are trying to keep a stiff upper lift, he goes tomorrow for another CT Scan, his infection involved a 10 year old AAA Anuerysm, they won't operate because he would be on ventilator for the rest of his life whatever that may be. Your family story is eerily similar to ours, my mother is alive at 99 and she passed her bad bones on to the three of us, my two brothers and myself, I have lots of ways I try to keep it from taking me over, some work. I walk every day even in our Michigan winter, but don't know how long the dog will last, but we have treadmills and I use a mini trampoline that helps the arthritis to a certain point. My husband is determined and we will see how the CT scan goes tomorrow. He had 4 cases of pneumonia in one year due to a drug he was using for UC which they finally took him off of it. I have lung problems too and we both have to watch what we breath, like fiber glass that is why we are looking at the denim. I am sorry to hear about your wife's grandmother we just lost my nephew at the age of 55 to pancreatic cancer, still trying to digest it he fought but could not win his battle. So our lives cross in many ways, thank you for opening up to me. I want to come back after the insulation is in and give a report on that.

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it may take me a while though. We have another problem we may have to tackle before we get this contractor back. We have a water problem in the basement. We had a crack sealed in the front wall it was done by someone recommended to us who lives across the street, the job was done well and we need to get him back again. Once in a while we get water coming in from the back wall of the house. We discovered another crack on the back wall and a week or so ago there were puddles under the vinyl tile after a sleet storm that left about an inch of sleet on the walks and street. The weather warmed up afterwards and the next day we saw the puddles in the basement, so we have to pop the cheap paneling off of the area we suspect has the crack and call that contractor out, hopefully this will be as we suspect and we can get our same contractor. Then once this is out of the way we will go on to the ceiling problem.

You all seem to have good ideas and we are thinking about all that has been said. The joists and how to handle that as said by Chuck and brought up by Windows on Wash

"While you have access to the underside of the floor, you can try to silence the squeaks by gluing and screwing 2x2's where the joists meet the floor sheathing, where the squeaks are. That can be done without damaging the laminate above."

It does seem like the strongest noise is coming from one point in the bedroom that could be related to that, my husband said he had seen a suggestion years back in Popular Mechanics to do the same thing. So before we make a bigger investment we want to try that, then down the road do as others have suggested get a drop ceiling in there, I browsed a little last night. It seems like if we can try the gluing and screwing 2x2's, maybe it would help to put some insulation in at least a few of the runs. They did glue the subfloor to the joists when it was built but we noticed a few points in the bedroom even right after we moved in where there were a few loud squeaks and my husband at that time put some nails in right through the carpet that has since been changed to the laminate. So we will see, but this does give us some hope.

Thanks to everyone here.