Securing homasote - screw it down or glue it down?

[csxt30]

I don't like the smell homosote has. anything else to use? I need something, too noisy.

Does it smell Homosotey? 

[Anonymous]

I have not used it for my trains, I am on plywood now (noisy). when I was going to buy the homosote  a friend of mine who works with the stuff told me about the smell. I went to where he stored it in his basement and I smelled it. at another friends house he had a sheet under a card table and I smelled it again. it seems to be a mild chemical smell, sort of sour. maybe it is just my nose, but I have to get something. when I run my trains on the plywood my neighbors can hear them. I was thinking about 1/2" styrofoam sheets used as building insulation.

[csxt30]

I have not used it for my trains, I am on plywood now (noisy). when I was going to buy the homosote  a friend of mine who works with the stuff told me about the smell. I went to where he stored it in his basement and I smelled it. at another friends house he had a sheet under a card table and I smelled it again. it seems to be a mild chemical smell, sort of sour. maybe it is just my nose, but I have to get something. when I run my trains on the plywood my neighbors can hear them. I was thinking about 1/2" styrofoam sheets used as building insulation.

I see, but remember, they have used it for years in schools for bulletin boards & years ago the huge amount of HO guys always used homosote & people are still using it for layouts & soundproof rooms today. If there's a smell, it's just from when it was bran new maybe. I wouldn't want a ton of people to think this stuff smells. I asked others if they ever smelled it that use it & they said no.

Foam is very popular now days for a layout, & may be even more used now than homosote.

Thanks, John