KINETICS® Ultra Quiet SR is a high-performance sound rated floor system and continuous acoustic underlayment designed to reduce footfall and impact noise through hard surface floors in apartments, hotels, villas, commercial buildings, and mixed-use developments across the UAE, GCC, Middle East, and MENA region.
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High-Performance Acoustic Floor Underlayment
KINETICS® Ultra Quiet SR Floorboard is a high-performance continuous underlayment material engineered to substantially reduce impact noise transmission through hard surface floor systems. It is especially suitable where ceramic tile, quarry tile, marble, hardwood, engineered flooring, or vinyl tile is used and where footfall noise may affect occupied spaces below.
Designed for Impact Noise and Airborne Sound Control
Ultra Quiet SR is used where typical 1/4″ to 1/2″ sound control mats do not provide the required level of sound reduction. The 1-inch resilient layer helps improve impact insulation performance while also increasing airborne sound isolation through the floor assembly. Kinetics notes that lab IIC ratings approaching 60 are possible in typical applications, compared with IIC 25–34 for conventional construction.
Composite Floorboard Construction
Ultra Quiet SR Floorboard is a 1 inch / 25 mm thick composite made from high-density molded glass fibers separated by a rigid phenolic-treated honeycomb core. This construction combines resilience and sound absorption in a single continuous underlayment layer, helping consultants and contractors achieve practical floor acoustic performance without a full floating concrete slab system.
Suitable for Concrete, Gypsum Concrete, and Wood Floor Builds
KINETICS® Ultra Quiet SR can be used with wood-frame or concrete structural floors and may be installed with reinforced mortar bed, gypsum concrete, poured concrete slab, or built-up wood floor assemblies. It is approved for use with gypsum concrete, standard concrete, and built-up wood floors, making it suitable for residential towers, hotels, serviced apartments, commercial developments, schools, offices, and mixed-use projects.
Installation and Perimeter Isolation Coordination
For effective acoustic performance, Ultra Quiet SR must be installed over a clean, flat, rigid, and level subfloor. Kinetics installation guidance states that the floorboard should be laid without adhesive, without overlapping, without gaps at the perimeter, and without taping the seams or joints. The system also uses Kinetics SRP perimeter interface around walls, door frames, columns, pipes, conduits, drains, and other penetrations to help reduce flanking paths.
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