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I have a customer with a dining room in a nice colonial style home that has terrible acoustics. Sounds echo around and sound is like you are in a barrel.
She has shown me literature about PEER Almute which is used in her husbands office building for sound deadening. Anybody know anything about this?
My impression is that this is an industrial/commercial product that would be very expensive and architecturally inapropriate in this house. It has zero flame spread and acceptable for humid and exterior applications. It seems to be made of aluminum fired in an oven to make “puffed alum” for the sound absorption.
My thinking is that she wants a solution, and not an aluminum cieling. I was thinking about proposing a coffered cieling with Armstrong or other brand embossed acoustic filling the squares. The coffers would break the sound waves in my theory while the cieling tiles would absorb some sound. There is not a problem with sound transmission from and to other rooms.
Any ideas?
Thank you for your thoughts.
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Piffin,
Whats the floor covering and could it be changed?
I think your coffered idea would work but you might want to run it by an acoustics engineer as I would hate to do all that work, have some small echo remain and her gripe at you about it...But thats just me.
Mike
*It has a beautiful hardwood floor which she doesn't want to cover. All surfaces are smooth and hard. She doesn't want to use draperies because that would inpede view and light sourcing. I'll try to post photos after my first meeting on site tomorrow. My thought is that since this is comparatively a long narrow room to maximize natural lighting and view, it created a sound tunnel. I didn't design it. I try to pay more attention to proportions originally.Where does one find an acoustic engineer? Big cities, I suppose. I suspect the client will prefere to do a "try it" and see approach. We'll see....
*i Where does one find an acoustic engineer?I'm not sure if this would be an ideal solution, but most larger cities have a growing number of home theater consultants and they should have an acoustic engineer on staff. This, of course, isn't a home theater, but they may be able to help.
*hey piffin left more info and explanation. on the 32"inche shingle site and check previous for circa for 18 something or other thank's the bear
*hey piffin it's me again "the shingle guy" as you know sound is movement. i wonder if you started with the walls and moved up to the ceiling. did a 32" wainscot off the floor in very largebedroom , complete with a barrel vault, had same problem. . above the wainscot we came in and 6'8" high and mimiced the width below 1x4 w/ molding we ran threw my william /hussey. and the upholsterer came in with a batten and fabric and the sound dropped dramatically. now granted a bedroom and a dining room are diffrent but there an armada of fabrics out there and applications . and accompany that with a rug of large dimension . with a coffered cieling some kind of a baffle i'd bet my clifton shoulder plane your on your way to a solution. i'll go away now the bear
*Coffered cieling is last on list of potential solutions here now. The layout would be a bear (no offense) ;-)It turns out the walls have murals painted on above a plain type wainscot. We will be using fabric covered panels on it, A modest drape, a similar panel on the ciel of a bay, and possibly replace the crown with another incorporating dentil mold. That last would be a foam product from Fypon. Under the dining table top we'll glue cork board or similar also.The room is not as narrrow as I remember, but there is a corner fireplace, a corner cupboard, a large bay window. So the effct is similar to an octogonal room with all sounds redirected back to the center. If the above doesn't work, she'll try carpet, but the sound problem seems more from the walls than elsewhere.
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I have a customer with a dining room in a nice colonial style home that has terrible acoustics. Sounds echo around and sound is like you are in a barrel.
She has shown me literature about PEER Almute which is used in her husbands office building for sound deadening. Anybody know anything about this?
My impression is that this is an industrial/commercial product that would be very expensive and architecturally inapropriate in this house. It has zero flame spread and acceptable for humid and exterior applications. It seems to be made of aluminum fired in an oven to make "puffed alum" for the sound absorption.
My thinking is that she wants a solution, and not an aluminum cieling. I was thinking about proposing a coffered cieling with Armstrong or other brand embossed acoustic filling the squares. The coffers would break the sound waves in my theory while the cieling tiles would absorb some sound. There is not a problem with sound transmission from and to other rooms.
Any ideas?
Thank you for your thoughts.