In Ceiling Speakers And Blown Insulation

Reducing sound by up to 60 and lowering energy costs by up to 25 this produce fills gaps and voids.

In ceiling speakers and blown insulation. Bag of greenfiber blown in cellulose insulation creates an energy saving thermal blanket in your walls. Click the button to calculate the depth in inches and pounds of total insulation required for this job. What a speaker touching insulation can do is change the color of your sound. Cellulose insulation sometimes called blown in insulation is treated with fire retardants and requires a lot of heat to ignite.

I cut a smaller hole to get my hand through to try and push back as much insulation as possible then i cut the big hole. Some insulation will fall through just use a sheet or drop cloth. I would lay a piece of blanket insulation over the speakers before the blown in insulation were applied. Installing this low cost speaker protector will prevent insulation from entering into the ceiling speaker s voice coil causing destruction or very poor performance.

Bag of greenfiber blown in cellulose insulation this 30 lb. Pro wire s insu flate solves this problem. The increased pressure on the. I am not a professional electronics installer or an electrician but figured this out on my own and thought i d share.

This calculator is to be used as an estimating tool only. It holds back the blown in insulation when you cut the installation hole. Ken of polk had told me that the lc series in wall ceiling speakers benefit the most from an exact volume enclosure while the others did not. I had no trouble doing it but it is a little messy.

The point is your speaker will probably not cause a fire because it s touching your insulation. Most ceiling speakers feature open back construction and are installed before the insulation is blown in. Input length width and desired r value of the area to be insulated. If you already have blown in insulation and doing a cut without batting above take a piece of batt insulation up the ladder with you and with your last cut of the hole push that batt along with the piece of cut drywall up into the attic space and leave it there in.