Hotels and acoustic comfort
Acoustic well-being is a must in hotels.
In the competitive hospitality industry, guest satisfaction hinges on details—especially peace and quiet. Yet, hotels, resorts, and high-traffic spaces often grapple with noise complaints: clattering footsteps in hallways, chair scrapes in dining areas, and echoes in lobbies. These disturbances don’t just irritate guests—they damage reviews and repeat business.
From luxury suites to banquet halls, noise transfer is a pervasive challenge:
- Impact noise: Footsteps, dropped items, and moving furniture transmit vibrations through floors.
- Airborne noise: Conversations, music, and HVAC systems travel through walls and floors.
- Regulatory pressures: Many EU countries enforce strict noise regulations.
In Italy, for example, speaking of acoustic comfort and governing its implementation is Prime Ministerial Decree of 5/12/97, which establishes the limit values, calculation methods and requirements to be achieved in order to reduce exposure to excessive noise.
Traditional solutions like thick carpets or floating floors often fall short, compromising aesthetics and are source of problems from a health and hygiene point of view.
A solution for footfall noise that does not require intervention on the screed.
T-Silence offers excellent acoustic insulation performance and can be applied under any finish, including wood, PVC, ceramic tiles and stone, without damaging the existing screed.
For under-tile applications T-Silence dB17, membrane roll consisting of a polymeric sheet bonded on one side to a resilient polypropylene non-woven fabric, and on the other side to a spunbonded fabric, is designed to be installed on a screed under the tiles and then covered with cementitious glue and the desired tiles or wood.
T-Silence absorbs up to 17 dB of noise in just 2,5 mm (0.1 in).
Why hotels choose it
- Aesthetic Flexibility: install under tiles, wood, or stone without altering design plans.
- Space-Saving: thin profile preserves ceiling height—critical for renovations.
- Durability: waterproof and mold-resistant, ideal for bathrooms, spas, and pool areas.
- Quick Installation: pre-rolled sheets adhere directly to screed or flooring, cutting labor time
Conclusion: the sound of success
In an era where silence is a premium commodity, soundproofing membranes like T-Silence DB-17 offer hotels a competitive edge. By merging acoustic performance with design freedom, they turn noise-prone spaces into oases of calm—ensuring guests remember their stay for the right reasons.
- Published in Acoustic insulation, Acoustic insulation system - under tile, Acoustic insulation systems - under screed, INTERIOR
Furnishings and accessories for designer bathrooms
Large or small, square or rectangular, with or without a panoramic view, the bathroom is always an intimate place that needs to combine functionality with relaxation. It’s a room that’s used very often, which is why everyone tries to make it a pleasant experience and personalise it according to their own taste.
A new soap dish, a rug to contrast with the floor and a larger mirror are good starting points, but it’s strictly in architectural terms that spaces can be customised.
Let’s see how.
SOLUTIONS FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION
The first thing to bear in mind is the fact that the bathroom is a place with a high amount of humidity and vapour, therefore any intervention works must provide suitable long-lasting solutions.
The TeMa Interior system allows many intervention works to make your bathroom extremely personal, including creating walls, making the spaces you want and external cladding for the bathtub with a whirlpool and shower, or creating structures for washbasins, shelves, niches or small cabinets.
Water Panel gives you the opportunity to create self-supporting partition walls for a sophisticated look in the bathroom. Its wide range of thicknesses (see data sheet) makes it an extremely adaptable and functional product.
It can be used as cladding for the bathtub and shower, also because it’s waterproof and prevents the risk of water seepage, which would cause costly damage, and conceals fixtures, therefore becoming a true furnishing element. In addition, since it’s cut to size, it offers the very advantageous option of making the shower or bathtub the required size.
Also for washbasins and walls for the installation of sanitary fixtures, creative solutions can be found with Water Panel: the structure supporting them, whether just one or many more, can be custom-made with a mirror recess and shelves.
Of course, Water Panel can be cladded with your choice of finish: tiles or plaster.
To make it even more visually attractive, you can choose to include niches thereby maximising the use of space. T-Niche is the ideal waterproofed prefabricated product for all your needs.
The above-mentioned products are very light, extremely easy to handle and can also be carried to upper floors without requiring a freight lift.
RENOVATION SOLUTIONS
Workers in the house, bathrooms out of use and dust everywhere: the nightmare can be minimised if you choose to waterproof your shower with TH2 Stop, the membrane that can be applied under tiles with standard cement glue and cladded as desired.
Accessories
To complete the work at critical points, such as corners, specific products can be used such as T-Corner I and T-Corner E, whereas at panel joints, where there are fixtures and drains, T-Bandel can be applied and fixed with T-Fix.
What are the advantages?
All solutions can be customised to the millimetre, on-site and without causing any dust, for quick installation. This allows unprecedented speed of work with the highest performance ever.
- Published in Baths and showers rooms, INTERIOR
