From my limited experience with them, I woud buy there again. Good service, nicely delivered at home.No I haven't bought from there yet.
Only the price really.Does Basotect have any negative points?
Question for the fellow Dutch/Belgian ASR members in this thread: do you know of any local suppliers of building kits (bouwpaketten) for frames? I know it's a relatively simple DIY job, but in my situation that's not really an option.
Thanks, found it: https://www.don-audio.com/Ben-Alder-wood-frame-for-wall-mount-1200x620mmSomeone shared a link here of a company that sells both foam and frames separately. Can’t tell which one exactly atm.
In my understanding, there is no penalty to the efficiency of an absorber with enclosure for sound waves arriving perpendicular to the surface of it. The enclosure will partially block sound waves arriving at an angle with an increasing loss of efficiency the bigger the angle. Even without enclosure, there will be a certain loss for the same situation.Can I achieve an effective air gap with the panel frame mounted flush with the wall and it's interior space consisting of a layer of absorbing material + air gap? Or does the air gap need to be open to the rest of the room, not enclosed by the frame?
Fiber thickness affects GFR ..we have Ewonawool, which might as well be Caruso Isobond
Yeah, nah... don't use exposed rockwool;
Behavior of rock wool in lungs after exposure by nasal inhalation in rats
To evaluate the safety of rock wool (RW fibers), we examined the biopersistence of a RW sample in the lungs of rats, based on the changes of fiber number and fiber size in terms of length and width, by a nose-only inhalation exposure study. Twenty male ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rockwood causes asthma - Gearspace.com
I built some basic broadband absorbers using Rockwool a few months ago, they did the job really well but caused me to develop bad asthma. I removed thegearspace.com
JSmith
Based on the recognition of this limitation, the present study seems to suggest the safety of RW fibers. At present we are conducting a long-term nasal exposure inhalation experiment to examine the pathological effects of RW, such as the long-term persistence of RW in the lungs, carcinogenicity, and pulmonary fibrosis, and plan to assess the safety of RW further, taking the results of the present study also into consideration.
Basotect doesn’t release anything imo.I bought IsoBond to avoid issues with rockwool, but unfortunately discovered the following..
These panels do release a lot of airborne plastic fibers (that are worse than organic rockwool fibers, as they get trapped and do not dissolve in the lungs).
The plus of IsoBond is avoiding VOC, formaldehyde etc. vs the rockwool, but I think I'll have to wrap them in thin plastic nonetheless... as the Camira Cara fabric is not sufficient in avoiding micro plastics to get out (plus, ironically, being the cara fabric made of plastic fibers, I noticed it also looses some strands)
Fibers from IsoBond don't break into small - microscopic- particles in contrast to Rockwool. This property avoids respiratory irritations from IsoBond. See here (in German): Caruso-Iso BondThese panels do release a lot of airborne plastic fibers (that are worse than organic rockwool fibers, as they get trapped and do not dissolve in the lungs).
The plus of IsoBond is avoiding VOC, formaldehyde etc. vs the rockwool, but I think I'll have to wrap them in thin plastic nonetheless... as the Camira Cara fabric is not sufficient in avoiding micro plastics to get out (plus, ironically, being the cara fabric made of plastic fibers, I noticed it also looses some strands)
If you vacuum clean your room regularly, it's not a problem, because these fibers are bigger than rockwool fibers and don't break into small glass particles. Also, from my experience, these sheets release fibers only when you physically work with them (cut, fix, bend or stick somewhere).These panels do release a lot of airborne plastic fibers (that are worse than organic rockwool fibers, as they get trapped and do not dissolve in the lungs).