FORMULA ONE SOLUTION TO REDUCE
NOISE TRANSMISSION

The luxurious Whittlebury Hall Hotel & Spa is situated right next to the Silverstone Motor Racing Circuit in Northamptonshire, with direct pedestrian access to the track.

Little wonder then, that hotel guests during a recent British Grand Prix included the likes of Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard and their families.

Whittlebury Hall was voted Best Hotel Spa of the Year in 2002 and Large Hotel of the Year in 2003.

Built in 1998, the hotel has just completed an 80 bedroom extension through owner operators Mace Park Developments. However, the metal decking and concrete infill floor structure of the original building had caused impact sound transmission problems on the tiled bathroom floor areas. Mace Park were concerned that the extension should not suffer from the same affliction.

So after consultation with Wedi and stockists Lords Builders Merchants in North London, the developer’s architects specified over 700m2 of Wedi NonStep Plan to be laid over the floor slab screed in the bathroom areas of the new extension.

NonStep Plan is just 6mm thick and is laid as a floating floor, then overlaid with a TT60 fibreglass mesh embedded in a thin layer of cement based flexible adhesive mortar and then trowelled smooth ready for the tiling bed and tiles.

NonStep Plan was chosen because it delivers an impact sound reduction value of 14db. Andrew Marr of Mace Park Developments commented “The Wedi NonStep produced excellent results reducing noise levels between floors in the tiled areas. We have plans to build another, ultra modern style hotel nearby at Silverstone Science Park and we shall certainly look to incorporate NonStep and other Wedi products in the bathroom areas.”

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