If your walls have a low rating you will hear almost everything happening on the other side and you will even be able to understand someone speaking softly on the other side.
Is the higher the stc rating the quiter the floor.
Is a higher or lower stc rating better.
The quietwalk underlayment provides very high ratings such as iic of 71 and stc 66 as of mid 2018.
The higher the rating the more sound is blocked from going through the material.
Higher values show that more sound is effectively isolated.
In short an stc roughly measures how much a barrier reduces sound.
A f iic and f stc rating.
The stc provides a standardized way to compare products such as doors and windows made by competing manufacturers.
Sound transmission class stc is an integer rating of how well a building partition attenuates airborne sound in the usa it is widely used to rate interior partitions ceilings and floors doors windows and exterior wall configurations see astm international classification e413 and e90.
An iic and stc rating will generally be 5 points higher than.
All ratings are not equal as with any underlayment sound testing number that a company gives you each subfloor or floor assembly in your home.
The stc or sound transmission class is a single number method of rating how well wall partitions reduce sound transmission.
A higher number indicates better sound than a lower number.
The iic and stc is conducted at a controlled laboratory.
On top of that the manufacture of the floor covering can use different materials.
The preferred level of performance for stc and iic is 60 57 f iic.