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Kitchen Sound Proofing Panels - Sound Absorbing Wall Covering
You may love the look of your high ceilings, granite countertops and wood floors but unfortunately this beautiful look creates a bad sound environment in your home. Excessive room echo is primarily caused by two things: hard surfaces and high ceilings. Treating your space with adequate sound absorbing wall covering or sound absorption panels (sometimes referred to as ‘sound proofing’ panels by our customers) is the perfect solution to such reverberant noise problems. Adding ‘sound proofing’ panels or sound absorbing wall covering to the room will reduce reflected sound thereby dampening the echo and reverberation, improving the acoustic environment.
Click to enlarge the before and after pictures and read a letter from one of our customer's DIY projects in the kitchen utilizing Audimute ‘sound proofing’ panels for sound absorption.
As you can see from the first photo, our home has tall ceilings and lots of open space. Unfortunately, the space was an echo chamber that only got worse when we made some changes to furniture and rugs. We purchased twenty Audimute panels in white with the intention of building some panels that could placed on the ceiling and easily removed. I used 3/16" Masonite as a backing for the panels. Before gluing the panels to the backing, I added two French cleats to the backing using small screws with a washer to prevent the screw head from pulling through. Once the cleats were on the backing, I glued the Audimute panel to the backing. The final construction step was to add the cover which just happened to match our recently painted walls.
The difficult part was putting the matching pieces of cleats on the sloped ceiling, but we managed to do it ourselves with only ladders to reach over the kitchen island. We also added four panels over our glass block wall that helps absorb sound in the living room. While those panels only needed one cleat because of their location on a vertical wall, the area is over the stairwell and also posed a challenge. Before our Audimute panels, a fork tapping the kitchen countertop could be heard vibrating throughout the house. Conversations and music were nearly impossible. Now we have a quiet house without vibrating sounds and wonder music in this space. We had looked at acoustic tile but decided it was too costly and too ugly. Our panels are hardly noticed by people visiting, but when they are noticed, people find them a soft addition to the space and not the least obtrusive. We are very pleased with our panels.
Thanks,
Milt & Carolyn
Asheville, NC