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Installing an Acoustic Coffered Wood Ceiling for Sound Attentuation

Bob meets with Joe Adams and Ralph McGrath, in the media room of the Elm Court Cottage in the Berkshires. They are installing a sound attenuation, grid-ceiling system from Owens Corning�s QuietZone Acoustyle Wood Coffered Ceiling collection. A standard T-bar steel framing system used commonly in drop ceilings is used as the substructure for the engineered panels. The panels anchor to the grid and using carbonized steel expansion clips. The solid and perforated wood panels allow the sound to be absorbed through the ceiling and into the black acoustic board adhered to the ceiling above the suspended ceiling. QuietZone systems control sound waves in four ways: they absorb, block, break and isolate. By managing the energy of the sound wave, Owens Corning redefines ambient noise. The panels can be ordered in natural materials like Walnut or other fine woods.

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Installing an Acoustic Coffered Wood Ceiling for Sound Attentuation

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" This room is going to become a media room for one of the suites and we've got Joe Adams with us and Ralph McGrath hello both here from OC. And it's new it's a new application for the do it yourself correct right it's a different kind of acoustical ceiling. That's different Quietzone acoustic ounces the security to -- your wife loosen it. Chance to pull -- really good looking as soon. And control of noise within the room of the Simpson but looking at the area directly above you it looks so appropriate for a house of this period. It's just very elegant not. That grid that's holding it up looks like. The standard steel grid that you put up any kind of acoustical system with threat that's right it's standard fifteen sixteenths. She -- suspend its -- and then what is the black surface that we're looking at the block materialism block acoustic board. That's going to absorb the sound as it goes through the through the pile. And then. There doesn't seem to be any cutting involved in this -- that's correct the transition box at the intersections of the grid system allow for just straight cutting -- very easy system to install just clips to the existing grid. So when you buy the whole thing -- you get all the different pieces. That would then be clipped on to the existing grid you get these pieces and you clipped them on what these little black things there Joe these are high carbon steel clip that time. -- spring type clip that pool. That it is here to the to the -- grid as well to the -- consistently straight push on. -- now why do you need the extra clip why can't you just stick it up onto the grip. Well let's say the system that allows it to expand and contract the one of the problems of the wood ceilings is in the heat in the wintertime would hit a wood ceiling. We cause the ceiling to shrink and pop the joints between these clips -- spring loaded high carbon steel. And they allow the ceiling to breathe -- Just some of them I notice are perforated and some of them are not Ralph yeah with the perforation is going to let you -- school through. Can optional by the blocked -- black holes in the in the background but you don't need to have the preparations and all of the coffers just didn't you know. And it basically you can just select select whatever look you like. And wherever you well whenever mix -- from the center point of view. And here we've got a room that's more or less rectangular so you've laid them out kind of in a rectangle along the central. This right portion of the that's right we go to a rectangle around the outside of solid. Followed by rectangles appropriate in the good solid section in the UK here's a solid one this. It won't let does that mean it's not it's not a photo finish or anything like that it's it's real work this real walnut yeah that's real walnut. These. Also -- sections. Now. And give me the you see the clips again yeah the backside of it so the whole thing and that could move. -- exactly as the temperature so that when heating season is upon us and there's six you know contraction of the wood and stuff you don't have any cracks developing classroom. Now how does that do it yourselfer that wants to put this in. Figure out what they need and and and you know buy it. Well the it's disputes on senate too would like to -- receptions and me so within any size room business -- justice. -- materials list. Pray that we equals. The panel would sit and just like. A typical suspension panel. --"

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