I have seen several theaters with custom wall covered by fabric. Me having no background with fabric working or the like. How do you hide the seams? Is it a special kind of fabric? Thanks.

It needs to be fire retardant fabric I believe.

Unless the install is for the remaining members of Great White.

Sorry, tacky but, I crack myself up.

Guilford of Maine has a ton of fairly exotic fabrics that come in 64 inch widths.

I just wrap the fabric around sharp corners on the wood and use my electric stapler to staple it on the back of the frame. Then I butt them up tightly against each other. as tightly as possible... On the back of the frames and on the wall that they attach to, I use this super wide (3 inch) industrial velcro and using a rubber mallet, very carefully tap the panels into place... (On yachts, most all of the walls and ceilings are panels that attach and can be removed in this manner.

Takes a little practice, but it's sort of like in the olden days, when some of us were in the speaker building business and we made our own cloth grille covers our our speaker monstrosities.

I'll do a little digging around on Google today for more specific info.

There is a company called SANPTEX that (might be national) that will do the walls for you, professionally. They do a lot of corporate board rooms, and locally I've used them for higher-budget theaters or listening rooms.

We did a theater once that used some plastic runners that were cut to size. You then used a tool to insert and stretch the fabric. Sorry can not remember the company though.

Yeah! That might have been SnapTex!


www.snaptex.com

Thats it! It looks soooo cool when you are finished.

Quest Acoustical Interiors (the company owned by Gerry Lemay of HAA) has a product line called QuesTrac.

I have not used it, but I have seen finished rooms that other CIs have done and it is a great system.

Aside from the fact that the product is great, I would use this if only to show support to Gerry for helping to bring the CI community such a strong training program and overall resource for acoustics information.

www.questai.com

Tell 'em Rick sent ya.

Quest also sells Guilford of Maine (GOM) fire retardant and acoustically transparent fabrics by the yard.

You can get a sample swatch book from Quest, or directly from GOM (but you cannot buy directly from GOM)

We are a Quest dealer on the West coast, this is what is used in theater pictures I have posted here and there.

2ND,

Thanks for the Quest info!
I'll have to give them a try. looks great.
Snap Tex is a BIG company that is more Commercial.

I'd prefer to support a CI oriented company.

interesting products, any canadian distributors?

We use Auralex's plastic rail and tuck system which looks good but it's alot of mitering. If you dont see yourself doing house molding you probably wouldn't have much fun installing it.

I've always thought Fabric Mate looked kind of neat, but I've never actually used it.

www.fabricmate.com

Here is a cutaway wall construction detailing Quest's 2" deep QuesTrac fabric track, with blocking for chair rail, crown molding, and baseboard.



Note the absorptive materials and the diffusors behind the fabric.

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