Installing In Ceiling Speakers With Blown Insulation

The point is your speaker will probably not cause a fire because it s touching your insulation.

Installing in ceiling speakers with blown insulation.

Installing this low cost speaker protector will prevent insulation from entering into the ceiling speaker s voice coil causing destruction or very poor performance. How does one go about installing ceiling speakers with blown in insulation. I would lay a piece of blanket insulation over the speakers before the blown in insulation were applied. I d be concerned about the blown in insulation working in around the backside of the driver.

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. It holds back the blown in insulation when you cut the installation hole. Failure to install a back box for your in ceiling speakers will dilute the sound quality and lead to noise pollution in other areas of your home.

The increased pressure on the. Cellulose insulation sometimes called blown in insulation is treated with fire retardants and requires a lot of heat to ignite. Below i explain why the backbox is important if you want to install in wall or in ceiling. I had no trouble doing it but it is a little messy.

Blowing insulation into walls is best left to the pros because it involves drilling into stud spaces that may contain electrical. In fact in many cases the backbox was the difference between a sound investment and a wasted one. What a speaker touching insulation can do is change the color of your sound. Handy homeowners can install blown in insulation in the attic.

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.