Dragonrain
Well-Known Member
Hey,
I live in an apartment and have three rabbits. The rabbits live in their own room, it's small - around 7.5 ft by 9.5 ft roughly measured. The 'room' was listed as a walk in closet on the paperwork we signed when we started renting the apartment, but it's a good size for the rabbits. They have a cage in the room, but also have free range of the room at all times. None of them really spend much time in their cage, they're almost always out in the room.
The flooring in our unit isn't that great. In most of the apartment, including the bunnies room, the floor is just sheets of linoleum laid over plywood. We've never had any of the tenets below us complain about noise, but I have a feeling they can probably hear sounds from us in their apartments. I know when the people below us watch TV or listen to music or argue, we can hear them through the floors.
Since the bunny room is pretty small anyways, I was thinking about maybe trying to soundproof the floor better. But I don't want to spend a ton of money, and I can't alter the floor in anyway that would be perminate. That way the bunnies can run around like maniacs, and I don't have to worry about whether or not the noise they make is annoying the neighbors.
Does anyone have any ideas of what I could put down on the floor? I have a bunch of area rugs in there now, because one of my rabbits completely refuses to walk on the slippery linoleum. I was thinking of buying foam padding, or something like this...
http://stores.ebay.com/kenmissyr
To lay over the linoleum flooring, then I would cover those with the area rugs. Do you think that would do anything to keep sounds down for the people below us? Or have any other suggestions, keeping in mind that I'm on a budget.
Would it even help to insulate just the floor? Because there's nothing I could really do about the walls - and the room doesn't have a door either. It's just an open walkway that I close off with a baby gate. So I know the mats wouldn't keep the bunnies from waking me up at night, but would just covering the floor more keep the neighbors from hearing them??
I live in an apartment and have three rabbits. The rabbits live in their own room, it's small - around 7.5 ft by 9.5 ft roughly measured. The 'room' was listed as a walk in closet on the paperwork we signed when we started renting the apartment, but it's a good size for the rabbits. They have a cage in the room, but also have free range of the room at all times. None of them really spend much time in their cage, they're almost always out in the room.
The flooring in our unit isn't that great. In most of the apartment, including the bunnies room, the floor is just sheets of linoleum laid over plywood. We've never had any of the tenets below us complain about noise, but I have a feeling they can probably hear sounds from us in their apartments. I know when the people below us watch TV or listen to music or argue, we can hear them through the floors.
Since the bunny room is pretty small anyways, I was thinking about maybe trying to soundproof the floor better. But I don't want to spend a ton of money, and I can't alter the floor in anyway that would be perminate. That way the bunnies can run around like maniacs, and I don't have to worry about whether or not the noise they make is annoying the neighbors.
Does anyone have any ideas of what I could put down on the floor? I have a bunch of area rugs in there now, because one of my rabbits completely refuses to walk on the slippery linoleum. I was thinking of buying foam padding, or something like this...
http://stores.ebay.com/kenmissyr
To lay over the linoleum flooring, then I would cover those with the area rugs. Do you think that would do anything to keep sounds down for the people below us? Or have any other suggestions, keeping in mind that I'm on a budget.
Would it even help to insulate just the floor? Because there's nothing I could really do about the walls - and the room doesn't have a door either. It's just an open walkway that I close off with a baby gate. So I know the mats wouldn't keep the bunnies from waking me up at night, but would just covering the floor more keep the neighbors from hearing them??