One of the most common places you will find acoustical treatment is in worship facilities. Why? Because they almost always need it.
Churches and fellowship halls are usually huge spaces with very large, blank parallel walls and vast angular ceilings. This is a recipe for a long reverberation time (the time it takes for a sound to fade, similar to echo) which interferes with visitors’ ability to understand each other’s speech and increases the overall perceived noise level.
These were the exact issues that members of Tuckahoe Presbyterian Church were dealing with in their fellowship hall. The room was intended for banquets, meetings, church activities, and VBS. More often than not, the reverberation made it too loud to be comfortable.
Acoustical treatment was applied in the form of Alphasorb® Cloud Mount Panels attached to the ceiling and back wall. These panels absorb noise, keeping it from bouncing around the room off of hard surfaces and creating echo. AlphaSorb® Cloud Mount Panels are available in a wide variety of sizes and colors including the standard Guilford of Maine FR701 fabric, Anchorage, Lido, and Bailey lines. The 2″ panels have a Noise Reduction Coefficient rating of up to 1.30 at 1000 Hertz, meaning they absorb virtually all noise that comes into contact with them. These panels are a common acoustical treatment in worship facilities, music practice rooms, restaurants, banks, offices, and other commercial facilities. These panels are easily installed with a combination of eye hooks and zip-ties or T-grids and guide wire.
Watch the following video demonstrating the reverberation time and speech intelligibility before and after the acoustical treatment:
Watch this video showing the Tuckahoe Presbyterian installation:
The folks at Tuckahoe Presbyterian were thrilled with their AlphaSorb® Cloud Mount Panels and the results of their acoustical treatment. A dinner was held in the fellowship hall the next evening. We were told that the difference in the room was very noticeable. In fact, many even said the room looked better with the panels than it did without! What do you think?
I am the member of a church we have a urge echo problem, they will drop a new celling but I assume we will have the same problem therefore I would like to know how you guys can help us in solving this problem.
Thanks
Hi Valentin,
Do you mean they are installing a new drop tile ceiling? Please give us a call and clarify so we can help you out.
Church renovation – covered ceiling tile with sheetrock and painted…echo now. Rectangle size..60’x40′ with 12′ ceiling. Large 7’+ windows. Brick walls..with concrete stucco from bottom of windows to ceiling. Exposed brick now from bottom of windows to floor. Carpet on floor…solid wood stage. Would consider wall panels..before we would want to do ceiling panels or not?
I will be happy to take a look at your space for you. I would definitely suggest wall panels. Whether we have to add ceiling panels will be determined on how much material we need and if we can get the amount we need to reduce the noise in the space on the walls. I will be happy to run the numbers. Would it be possible for you to shoot me you r contact info with the churches address? I would like to have some samples and color charts sent out. Also if you could forward me a few pictures of the space it would be most helpful as well? Thank you and look forward to finding a solution to your churches noise issue!
Cory Diggs
Architectural Sales