Problem:   A room full of loud barking dogs, metal cages, and concrete floors is a noise nightmare. Unwanted sound pressure can make it intolerable in a kennel or adjoining exam room, office, lab, waiting area, or other facility sharing a common wall.

Goal:  To lower reverberant echo in the room where the animals are housed, and prevent the leakage of this noise to adjoining areas. Our goal is to simply better control the environment, not to cure it!

Solution:  Install a moisture resistant acoustic absorption material in the room where the animals are kenneled. The material will intercept the bark of a dog and dissipate the sound. Also consider lining your walls with acoustic barrier material to hold the noise to within the room.

Products:

VET Baffles are ideal for rooms with more than 3,000 cubic feet of space. The panels are a class A fire rated material wrapped in a water resistant PVC skin available in multiple colors. The baffles are suspended vertically from the ceiling or against the walls to absorb the unwanted sound reflection in the room. The larger the room, the better these work!

FireFlex Foam Panels are also a popular choice. These are class A fire rated 2'x4' panels that are adhered to the top 2' of the wall around the perimeter of the room. Ideal for smaller kennels where moisture can be held to ground level.

dB-Bloc barrier vinyl is available for any kennel wall that is studded and sheetrocked rather than concrete. This heavy limp mass material will help deaden the transmission of this noise through the wall to the adjoining room. It can also be cut and laid on top of your ceiling tiles to help prevent leakage!

Also check any of our Architectural products for controlling ambient echo in waiting rooms, front lobby's, offices, exam rooms and more!

REFERRALS:

UCSF, 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA 94143  Don Manuba; 1-415-476-9334

To Do:

• Check further Web site pages on any of those products for more information, application photos, spec sheets, color charts, and references
• Measure your room dimensions
• Contact NetWell