Why Your Upper Floor Should Feel Just as Solid as Your Ground Floor
Design and Style / Home Building /12.05.26
Walk into the upstairs of a brand-new home and stomp your foot. You'll hear it before you feel it, that faint, hollow thud that tells you the floor isn't quite as solid as it looks.
It's not a defect. It's not a sign of poor workmanship. It's just how almost every two-storey home in Australia is built. And once you know why, you'll never quite hear an upper floor the same way again.
Luxe Crete is a 45mm factory-engineered concrete panel system by Clarendon Homes that replaces standard 22mm particle board on double storey upper floors. It delivers 180% more strength, 40% better sound insulation, 120-minute fire resistance, and contains zero crystalline silica. Available as a premium structural upgrade across many Clarendon home designs in NSW.