Installation Type
Dream Home QuietWalk Underlayment
Designed for floating floor materials, QuietWalk’s recycled filaments are specially processed to cushion the floor, absorbing sound and reducing unwanted noise. This helps make floating floors sound more like fastened wood and helps to keep sound from traveling to other rooms. Although it can be installed over wood or concrete subfloors, QuietWalk can manage moisture that surfaces in the form of vapors that naturally come up from concrete subfloors with its exclusive DriWick™ technology.
- A unique Earth-friendly insulating underlayment used under wood, bamboo, and laminate
- Firm support for multiple types of flooring
- Excellent acoustical absorption with STC and Delta sound ratings
- Great density and extremely dense -producing the best flooring installation base ever
- The excellent insulation of wool to help with home efficiency
- Treated with an anti-microbial to inhibit mold and mildew growth
Approved for Floor Types
Engineered Bamboo
Engineered Hardwood
Laminate
Pad-Attached Flooring
Underlayment Provides Many Benefits…More Than You Think!
Flooring underlayment adds many benefits to your floor, even with pad-attached flooring. Pad-attached flooring offers a great start to protection and insulation but with QuietWalk underlayment your floor gets the full protection it deserves.
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Water Protection
Sound Reduction
Compression Resistant
Insulating Value
Environmentally Friendly
Anti-Microbial Treated Fibers
Perfect For Pad-Attached
Water Protection
When installed properly, QuietWalk’s fibers can manage moisture that surfaces in the form of vapors from concrete floors effectively. The fibers allow concrete to “breathe” never allowing vapors to become bulk moisture under floating floors. The attached vapor barrier protects the overlying flooring from harmful moisture. Fibers are treated with a safe anti-microbial to
inhibit mold and mildew.
Moisture Statement
QuietWalk underlayment will absorb and allow dispersion throughout the pad with water moisture accumulations not exceeding one gallon per 24 hrs per 300 square feet of underlayment and/or allowed to continue to accumulate for more than 7 days. Actual in-house tests have shown results up to 5 times that amount.
BenefitsSound Absorption
Filaments are randomly air-laid creating a capillary affect to cushion the floor, absorb sound, and help make floors sound more like real wood.
IIC – Impact Sound Transmission Sound Properties
This method is designed to measure the impact sound transmission performance of a floor-ceiling assembly in a controlled laboratory
environment.
STC – Sound Transmission Loss Sound Properties
The sound-insulating property of a partition element is
expressed in terms of the sound transmission loss.
Technical Data
| Data Type | Value |
|---|---|
| Material Compensation | Blended synthetic fibers and polyethylene film. Inert hot-melt adhesive. |
| Environmental Attributes | 94% post industrial/pre-consumer fibers |
| Weight | 12 lbs/roll • 17.28 oz/sq yd • 1.92 oz/sq ft |
| Thickness | 0.125” or 3mm |
| Density | 11.52 lbs / ft3 |
| Moisture Absorption Approx: | 650% by weight |
| Compression Resistance @ 25% | 9.5 psi |
| Compression Resistance @ 30% | 16.6 psi |
| Compression Resistance @ 50% | 85.5 psi |
| Breaking Strength – Length | 72.1 lbs |
| Breaking Strength – Width | 100 lbs |
| Compression Set @ 25% | 18.8% |
| R-Value (@0.125”): | 0.58 hr-ft2-degF/Btu (4.64/ inch) |
| Intended Usage | Residential & light commercial applicants |
Flammability
Meets or exceeds Federal Flammability Standard: 1-70 (Pill Test) and ASTM E84 Steiner Tunnel Test.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)
GREENGUARD AND GREENGUARD GOLD certified for low emissions conforming to Indoor Air Quality standards.Tested for 81 different off-gas compounds in accordance with CA 01350. Passed to the level of Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and Office Spaces.
Product Emissions
Passed the most rigorous emissions test: Section 01350 for CHPS and Standard Office 8mm Laminate. GREENGUARD GOLD certified for low emissions.
Resources
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Spec Sheet