Mounting Acoustic Foam to Walls.

[Vanity]

Hey guys, i'm looking at a way off mounting acoustic foam to the walls without damaging the walls when removing. I don't want to use that adhesive spray that comes with them as it will pull all the paint off the walls when removing. How do people get on when renting an apartment? I'm using Universal Acoustic Foam Panels so their not mounted on word or anything.

Cheers in advance!

[Genevieve]

Ebay yourself some cheap mic stands.

[Add9]

double sided foam tape?

[Crimsonghost]

You can probably just drive a small nail though each side of the foam. Im assuming youre walls are sheetrock, so it will be pretty easy. Most places wont care about a small hole like that, and if they do, it takes like 5 seconds to cover up with some puddy.

[mthrfnk]

I had the same problem, what I did was cut some large cardboard panels to the size I wanted (e.g. the size of 3x2 foam panels), I actually used the packaging my foam came in - it was a huge box of 24 panels, then I glued the foam to the panels using hot glue, you could probably use normal glue or tape idk. Then I simply put 2 drawing pins in the cardboard and pinned to the wall, it's flat and supported and it'll only leave 2 tiny holes which I'll probably plug with paint or filler if I move out of this place.

[Tom_Autobot]

get a piece of thin hardboard and glue them to it, drill a couple of holes in the top corners and put some hooks or nails in the wall with wallplugs and rest the hardboard on it. I used this technique to do window shutters in my old control room, worked well.

What would work better is to sell your foam panels and make some full range absorber panels to put at the first reflection points (half way between listening position and speakers on left and right walls, one in the same position on the ceiling, behind the speakers and on the rear wall). Foam stops being effective below 200hz (even at 5" thick) and if you follow these should be good to below 100hz. For bass traps that work below 100hz, build exactly the same panels, put them across the corners of the room.

Get yourself some dense fibreglass like rockwool RW5 slabs (or Owens Corning 703 in the states), 4-6" thick. Make frames to fit around the slabs with 6x1 (whatever size thick the slabs are) wood and stretch cotton, felt or hessian over the front. Stick a couples of pieces of 4x2 across the back of it, horizontally, so that the absorber panel is kept away from the wall, as this will improve the low frequency absorbsion of the panel.

[Vanity]

Cheers for the responses guys, has anyone heard about using T-Pins to mount foam to the wall? I'm guessing that Velco tape stuff wouldn't attach to foam.

[dublerium]

Use the adhesive spray to stick it to cardboard, then Velcro patch or sticky pad the cardboard to the wall.

[Nevs]

http://www.amazon.com/Command-Poster-Ad ... 3m+command

Try these are something similar, ive used them to hang pictures and all sorts of crap in my apartment they come off the walls without any problems. I plan to use them when I try to acoustically treat my room!

[Artie_Fufkin]

In this video (check the description for where to skip to), this guy describes how he has his panels mounted, if it helps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QAgc63lNJM

[fragments]

Many thanks the pinning the foam to the wall ideas fellas...been trying to convince the woman to let me hang treatment in her guestroom (also known to me as my studio) for ages. I bet she won't mind some of the methods suggested here.

[mthrfnk]

Cheers for the responses guys, has anyone heard about using T-Pins to mount foam to the wall? I'm guessing that Velco tape stuff wouldn't attach to foam.

Like I said, imo mount the foam to some backing like cardboard and pin the cardboard... the foam could tear under it's own weightby pinning alone plus you have to pin each panel if you don't use backing.