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Soundproofing A Multipurpose Room

Soundproofing A Multipurpose Room
By Mark Rustad

A multipurpose room, such as a gymnasium or meeting hall is often subjected to a high volume of noise. Because of the size, this general-purpose room is often a magnet for unwanted sound reflections. Finding a way to cut down on the reverberation while complying with building and fire codes takes careful consideration.

Controlling the reverberation time in a multi purpose room should result in background noise that subsides while normal conversational tones return to the room. With a soundproofed multipurpose room, acoustics should be perfect for speech clarity, blending harmonic musical tones, and making the room comfortable for large groups of people..

One way to address the issue is through the installation of a series of wall or ceiling mounted acoustical panels or wall coverings that results in the reflecting sounds produced within the room collapsing reverberation time.

Your ultimate goal isn t to deaden your room, or even dampen it really, but simply to control the sound being produced within it. What you should try to aim for is a room that will accurately portray the spoken word, maintain the quality of musical tones and disperse sound throughout the room.

One example of how a multipurpose room was designed to do just this would be the Bound Brook High School, a building that needed to deliver good acoustics to every seat in the facility.

With the installation of NetWell Fabric Panels applied to the back and sidewalls of the facility, the sound waves reflected around the room and the panels captured and converted the unwanted energy, delivering a reverb time of under 2.0 seconds. As a result, the original sounds produced became clearer as the background noise died off. The acoustics in the room are now under control, delivering quality speech and music evenly throughout the room.

The sound treatment for the multipurpose room is dependent on the design of the room and the need. Other sound treatments that can and have been used in multipurpose rooms include: Suspended Ceiling Clouds, which can convert the sound energy into kinetic energy and deliver a controlled sound environment back into the room QBS Blankets that trap energy and noise VET Baffles, Pyramids Plus Foam panels made from class A fire rated melamine foam Strike Panels, Wedge Foam Panels, dB-Block, NetLag and FabricBloc Panels.

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Mark Rustad is President of NetWell Noise Control, based in Minneapolis, MN. Founded in 1991, NetWell is a leading supplier of ceiling tiles, acoustic products, soundproofing treatments, and online acoustical consulting services. NetWell s sound management skills are packaged into the industry s premier website. For more information, please visit www.eSoundproof.com. Discover first hand why so much of NetWell s business stems from the referrals and repeat orders they receive from satisfied clients around the world.

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Is Your Spouse Decision Impaired?

Is Your Spouse Decision Impaired?
By Barbara Tallent

The vast quantities of information now available at our finger tips have made it even more difficult to make (or drive) a decision on home improvement projects. Throw the fact that the decision is about your home into the mix and it becomes not only difficult, but emotional as well.

Has this ever happened to you? You email a couple of choices for a product or service to your significant other - only to run across one more interesting website that you then email separately. Then you find three more. Have you ever been on the receiving end of this behavior? Often times it is five or six emails and they pile up in your inbox never to be found as a group again. Then you start to cringe when you see one more with a similar subject line.

It doesn t have to be this way. Once you start driving decisions rationally, you will be surprised at how people around you respond (both at work and at home). You can make it easy for them and easier on your self by just being a little more organized in presenting choices. Here are a few simple steps to help facilitate a decision:

1. Define the objective - If you don t agree on an objective, how can you ever agree on how you are going to satisfy the objective? Write it down some place that you can revisit it if necessary.

2. Research - Allocate some time to find products or services that meet your objective and spend an hour or so reading reviews, recommendations, and bookmarking appropriate sites.

3. Document - Which products/services come closest to meeting your objective and why? Write it down.

4. Eliminate - Don t burden someone with ten or fifteen choices. Pick your top three or four. If you want them to know that you did some thorough research, list the others that you considered and their reason for elimination.

5. Stop - At some point you need to stop adding to your list.

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But take the time to make sure it is really exceptional in meeting your objective before you send it on and disrupt a decision in process.

6. Create urgency - Ask for a deadline. “If I give you my top three choices tomorrow, will you be able to evaluate it by Friday?”

That is it! Make your life easier by making your spouse s life easier. I personally use a digital binder to keep my choices and drive decisions. Take a look at my binder on choosing a landscaper for ideas: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=760 This binder can be emailed to my spouse, bookmarked, or dragged to my desktop.

Barbara Tallent is a co-found at JammerMedia who spends weekends renovating her home with her husband. She also maintains a website with resources for technology product marketing managers http://www.infrasystems.com and a website for people who want to remodel their fireplaces http://www.homebedazzle.com

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