Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common house design

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

I don't think you want it totally "dead."

Katie 
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On 5/23/15, 11:17 AM, "R Philip Dowds" <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> wrote:

>
>We have a Tectum ceiling.  It doesn't do the job.  It's unlikely that any
>single surface will do the job by itself.  Designing a "dead"
>(non-reverberant) room requires multiple strategies and materials.
>
>R Philip Dowds / Cornerstone Cohousing
>175 Harvey Street, Unit 5
>Cambridge, MA 02140
>
>land:     617.354.6094
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>> On May 23, 2015, at 1:56 PM, Sharon Villines
>><sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Acoustics are not a
>>> problem because Chuck designed full accoustic (tectum) paneling on
>>>ceiling
>>> of the great room. Yes, this costs moneyŠabout $12K if I remember
>>>rightly.
>>> But given thousands of hours of use our common house gets, it was very
>>> well worth it.
>> 
>> How high is your ceiling?
>> 
>> I also wanted Tectum but we ended up with (boring) acoustical panels.
>>I'm constantly warning people about protecting them -- don't lean ladders
>>against them, don't poke pins in them to hang decorations, don't lean
>>decorative baskets against them, etc.
>> 
>> For those who don't know Tectum is a like wood shavings compressed into
>>a block like tile. It can be painted and cleaned. Balls bouncing off it
>>don't make dents, except maybe in the ball.
>
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