A floating floor is simply a hardwood floor that is set down without nails, screws or any other fasteners, and being loose, it will create a double click when you walk on it, which can be disconcerting at least.
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To meet modern standards ( both hollow-core and massive slab ) of soundproofing the floor needs to be covered with a soft floor covering that is able to dampen the sound of footsteps or a floating floor screed should be installed.
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It has water tanks, 30-story drop towers, air-cushioned floating floors and the KC-135 _ the " vomit comet, " a plane that climbs to more than 30, 000 feet and then falls back to Earth; passengers get a 25-second fling in microgravity.
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The floor is a Juncker floating floor that, " because it's not nailed down to a subfloor, it has a little bit of give to it, which you wouldn't normally notice, " says Eichenberger, " but when you're in a boat room, it works ."
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Structures in which a floor is supported by concrete ( but with a vapor barrier ) are not unusual, Nomikos said; but Carnegie's stage should have been a free-floating floor, meaning that there should have been an air chamber under the plywood, with the plywood and maple levels supported by a series of wooden supports, called " sleepers, " that rest on steel I-beams.
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Then Ms . Oppens paid $ 13, 400 for construction of, in the architect's words, a " floating floor " of alternating plywood and sheetrock layers, supported on " compressed, high-density fiberglass resilient cubes, " as well as " an inner, independent ceiling below the existing building ceiling " filled with fiberglass, and 200 square feet of " wrapped fiberglass absorption panels " on the walls.
