Acoustic Building Material Available In Australia - Note:

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Building Supplies Available in Australia - Glass wool - Rockwool - Polyester & Foam plus sundries. Dated 18/10/2008 for Australian Purchases East Coast.

Fletcher Insulation: (Mostly Glass Wool & Includes Tasman & Polyester supplies. The Polyester is made for Fletcher by Tontine).

Fletcher FI - 48/96 = Owens Corning 703/705 material. Comes in Rigid Glass Wool of many sizes & densities, the most used are Fletcher FI48 (703 Type 2 Inch/50 mm thick 48/kg/m3 Density sized 2400 x 1200 sheets 1 pack or 4 Batts per pack = 11.52 Sq Metres. Cost $ 160 plus and/or Delivery $55-60 Metro. See their site for details.
http://www.fletcherinsulation.com.au

CSR/Bradford: Building materials.

Inc Sound check board and Rockwool including Glass wool and much more. Please see the web site and down load "Acoustic Building Guide" and "Red Book".

The Rockwool available from Bunnings is "Sound-Screen" in Multiple thickness, though Density is 35/kg/m3 others are Fibertex 350/450/ Fibertex HD all come in differing sizes and Densities up to 160/kg/m3. Sizes Vary! See their site for details.
http://www.bradforinsulation.com.au

Autex Insulation: Polyester Acoustic Control/Insulation.

Autex Insulation provide cavity and Sound Batt Spun polyester AAB material. They also supply Acoustica (Sonex) In Australia with many Polyester Products. The Polyester they offer in the AAB range from AAB 35/kg/m3 - 2 inch/50 mm or the AAB 48/kg/m3 - 2 Inch inch/50 mm. The whole AAB range is not available for small purchase. If they are doing a AAB Size run you may get product, none is in Stock, minimum order 1000 Sq Metres. See their site for details.
http://www.Autex.com.au

Tontine Insulation: Polyester Acoustic Control & Insulation.

Tontine make quite a few housing and Acoustic insulation products and do have stock. They specialise in a porous Polyester material named Acoustisorb 1, 2, 3 in 2400 x 1200 mm Batts in Packs of 3 Batts to 5 per pack.

The Acoustisorb 3 has the 48/kg/m3 Density and you will need to order - call them directly and ask for tech/ sales in your State. The Acoustisorb 3 is quite Rigid and will stand in a 4 inch frame as a 703 type and

Acoustisorb 2 32/kg/m3 is perfect for super chunking. The benefit of Polyester is that their are no fibres or allergies or dust as with Rockwool/Glass wool. See their site for details.
http://www.tontinefibres.com.au

Dunlop Foams: Dunlop Acoustic Foams.

Dunlop foams are part of the United Bonded company in Australia & the UK including Tontine, though both companies are separate in trade. Acoustic Foam from Ultrafonic, Sound & Music and Wave panels (Could be wrong there?) all come from Dunlop Australia. Auralex and Primacoustic are overseas Companies.

Dunlop make a wide range of Acoustic Foams and re-sell to the Australian Companies listed above. If you are willing to purchase enough Acoustic Foam they should Pro Forma Invoice you. They have a wide product range though some Foams are only sold through resellers as listed. Their AA29 and 30 products Including Open cell & Closed Polyurethane are on their site. They also have a very small Home Theatre Mpeg 4 file you can download (Not the hottest advice).

You Should be able to purchase AA-29 or AA-30 Density 29/kg/m3 & 30/kg/m3 direct, though be smart and order enough $50 bucks no go...! $300 for a Booth .... Try! that will get you 17 Sq Metres or thereabout, they do deliver Sydney Metro. The NRC @ 100 Hz is .10 This Foam only kicks in from 1000-Hz to 15000-Hz hitting an average Absorption Coefficient of .95 to 1.19 - If that's what you need! See their site for details.
http://www.Dunlopfoams.com.au

Thermotec: Building Materials/MLV & Acoustic Foams.

This company sprung up in the last few years, they sell everything from foam, Rigid Insulation to MLV or Thermotec Nu Wave Base in 4kg/m2 - 6kg/m2 - 8kg/m2 Foil backed or Foam backed, many facings available. (They are also under the Dunlop Banner though no one seems to know this, not even in the company! In example 4kg/m2 1.350 mm x 5000 mm costs around $130 AUD though they do not sell direct. Go through a Major supplier, they also have Marine and other materials for housing. See their site for details.
http://www.thermotec.com.au

Please.....! When looking to purchase these type of Acoustic Materials do your shopping well. In Sydney, NSW their are around 5-7 major housing insulation Companies that will sell all around the "Blacktown Sydney area".

On Small orders they do make up cost by delivering with a $55-60 Charge. Unless you have a small Van or a Big Ute you will need delivery, no big 4 x 4 or Station Wagons can carry a big load of this stuff at the Australian size where batt Packs come in 2400 x 1200 mm Slabs.

Local Hardware Stores or indeed Bunnings or Mitre 10 do not carry or will order in these materials these days. It will be cheaper to search the main Insulation sales Suppliers - Go for the "Big Guys" and it will "Co$t Less".

There are a few other Insulation companies such as AGI though they do not carry anything I found worth while. I have product from all the above companies and being straight up in telling them what you want will help you as they will tell you their preferred sellers in Retail Insulation, also remember most if not all is done to order.

I do hope from my recent experiences you can also gain some insight into acquiring materials from the best places in Sydney, NSW at the best prices, be it a new "Real World" Studios or a Backyard Drum-kit "Slam Booth". Please "Post" or "PM" me if you need specific info. To find the Sellers go to Insulation http://www.yellowpages.com.au and the phone numbers and Street info will appear. The Prices mentioned are $AUD and relevant for 2008 only.

Note: I have no affiliation with any of these companies nor their resellers which is why I have left their names out so you can find them in the Yellow Pages Online.

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Good work boss!

Hey, this link didn't work for me :

www.bradforinsulation.com.au

Could it be something different or a typo possibly? Maybe it is only open to you guys down under?

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Sorry About that, Here is the correct link.

CSR/Bradford Insulation & Building Products:

http://www.bradfordinsulation.com.au/home.aspx

The trick on this site is to find the PDF files and then download the Handbooks which include building a Double leaf/triple/Air-Insulated etc Wall. Or The Acoustics Handbook which also has HVAC Info as well as Hard Acoustic info that is Home Theatre/Recording Studio/Machine Room and 101 Acoustics.

Some PDF Files are 3 Megabyte plus ! This one should take you directly to products. Hope that this helps, does look like a new site though! Enjoy!
http://www.bradfordinsulation.com.au/Pr ... ector.aspx


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