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Scoop up some Fireflex™ Waves

Ice cream shops are often places with acoustic challenges. Some have large glass windows, glass freezers, compressors, and other equipment… Let’s not forget all the patrons and excited children! In retail environments like these, good acoustics are important for accurate order taking, customer comfort, and safety concerns. These spaces also require Class A fire rated materials to meet many local fire codes.

The high ceilings were an easy place to put some acoustic treatment without interfering with the activities of the shop and Fireflex™ Waves were an ideal solution. The ceiling-mount Waves can be installed in either a cloud (horizontal) or baffle (vertical) configuration. In this particular space, the perpendicular baffle installation was the most efficient use of the Waves, and their Class A fire rated Fireflex™ material is also easy to cut in the field – which was handy when they had to work around an I-beam.

If you have an environment that needs acoustic treatment, reach out to Acoustics First® online or at 888-765-2900.

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FireFlex™ Wave – Cloud or Baffle

It’s good to have options in ceiling treatments. Some environments have high ceilings that benefit from vertically-hanging baffles, while other environments have lower ceilings in which clouds are more appropriate. In some cases the aesthetic will dictate which product would be best – but what if there was one product that could do both?

Fireflex™ Waves hung horizontally as clouds

The Fireflex™ Wave has a unique, undulating shape that adds visual interest along with acoustic absorption – but it has another feature which few materials can boast. Due to the Class 1(A) melamine foam construction, the corkscrew mounting hardware can be installed wherever it is needed – including on the edges.

FireFlex™ Waves hung vertically as baffles.

By installing the hardware on the edges instead of the face, you are given the option to also hang the Waves in a vertical orientation as baffles. The wave shape works well aesthetically in either orientation – horizontal or vertical.

In rooms with a lower ceiling, the horizontal orientation of clouds provides more headroom while the undulating shape optimizes the Wave’s surface area for absorption. In larger spaces with high ceilings, you can add more absorptive surface area by hanging the Waves as baffles, and provide a more organic look than you get with flat baffles.

When overhead acoustic absorption is required, turn to Acoustics First®.

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Little Safari Day Care – creating peace (and quiet), one pyramid at a time.

Little Safari Daycare Playroom

Daycare facilities are inundated with music, crafts, games, learning, and noise!

With more parents returning to the office, we’ve recently received a handful of treatment requests from day-care facilities dealing with an influx of boisterous children.

Little Safari Day care reached out to us in July 2021 for help with their space. Little Safari’s multi-purpose room is used for play, music, reading, arts/crafts, meals, games etc….. lots of moving and laughing = lots of noise! According to the owner “The noise level is deafening at times to the point you can’t hear anything, just noise”

The fanciful mural on the playroom wall looks great, but when you look closer, that glossy painted surface reflects sound like glass! Luckily, Fireflex Pyramid foam can quiet that down!

Technical consultant Cameron Girard settled on a remediation package that included FireFlex Acoustic Pyramid Foam panels distributed throughout the ceiling of the multi-purpose room. Safe to say, they were very happy with the results!!

Foam on the ceiling

The checkerboard install of the foam helped to distribute the absorption over the loudest areas of the room.

From the owner…..“Cameron, Thank you for all of your help and expertise in sound suppression!!! I have had people tell me upon entering the front door “wow, it’s much quieter in here” Such a noticeable difference. You may have saved my hearing and sanity!!!”

Little Safari Hall

There were even a few panels left to help quiet down the hallway. Note how they oriented the panels and trimmed them to work around obstructions – nice clean install!

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