I am not a professional electronics installer or an electrician but figured this out on my own and thought i d share.
In ceiling speakers and blown insulation.
I had no trouble doing it but it is a little messy.
Click the button to calculate the depth in inches and pounds of total insulation required for this job.
Cellulose insulation sometimes called blown in insulation is treated with fire retardants and requires a lot of heat to ignite.
This calculator is to be used as an estimating tool only.
Most ceiling speakers feature open back construction and are installed before the insulation is blown in.
Bag of greenfiber blown in cellulose insulation creates an energy saving thermal blanket in your walls.
I would lay a piece of blanket insulation over the speakers before the blown in insulation were applied.
It holds back the blown in insulation when you cut the installation hole.
Some insulation will fall through just use a sheet or drop cloth.
Pro wire s insu flate solves this problem.
Bag of greenfiber blown in cellulose insulation this 30 lb.
What a speaker touching insulation can do is change the color of your sound.
If you already have blown in insulation and doing a cut without batting above take a piece of batt insulation up the ladder with you and with your last cut of the hole push that batt along with the piece of cut drywall up into the attic space and leave it there in.
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.
The point is your speaker will probably not cause a fire because it s touching your insulation.
No mess from falling insula.
The increased pressure on the.
Reducing sound by up to 60 and lowering energy costs by up to 25 this produce fills gaps and voids.
I d be concerned about the blown in insulation working in around the backside of the driver.
Installing this low cost speaker protector will prevent insulation from entering into the ceiling speaker s voice coil causing destruction or very poor performance.