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Acoustic Floating Floor System - Farrat CineFLOOR LITE

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Farrat Isolevel Ltd Third party certifications:
  • ISO 9001 Quality Management

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Lightweight acoustic floating floor system for auditoriums where the structural slab is not designed to take the weight of a concrete floating floor, or wet trades are not an option.

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Application

Particularly suited to renovation and re-purposing applications such as:

  • Commercial cinemas.
  • Home cinemas.
  • Music practise rooms.
  • Recording studios.

Description

Lightweight acoustic floating floor system for auditoriums where the structural slab is not designed to take the weight of a concrete floating floor.


Features and benefits:

  • Utilizes Farrat's lowest dynamic stiffness isolators to extract the maximum possible low-frequency performance from a lightweight timber/ plasterboard floating slab.
  • Delivers a high level of sound insulation.
  • Can be designed with a combination of timber, plasterboard and cement particleboard layers to offer variable mass and resistance to moisture.
  • Easy to install, with no operational maintenance required.
  • Part of a range of acoustic floating floor solutions for auditoriums of all shapes and sizes.
  • Provides complete flexibility in terms of dynamic stiffness and damping.

General information

Color

Black

Finish

Other

Material

Rubber

Shape

Rectangle

Square

Length

Bespoke

Width

Bespoke

Height

110 mm

Warranty description

-

Manufacturer guidance

Up to ten years

Uniclass

Ss_30_20_10_95 Wood-based rigid sheet floating floor systemsPrimary

CAWS

K11/275 Acoustic separating floor system

K11/295 Floating floor system

Product range

Farrat CineFLOOR

Specification data - Wood-based rigid sheet floating floor systems

Subfloor preparation

Structural slab (existing or contractor-supplied).

Guidance for specification option:

Clean, swept and free of debris.

Resilient layer

Farrat CineFLOOR LITE isolators, 50 mm-thick, plus 50 mm-thick mineral wool.

Guidance for specification option:

- CineFLOOR LITE floor isolators:

  • Product code: 2CF-L-01.
  • Length: 1000 mm.
  • Installation: Spacing at 600 mm centres, allow 3.4 isolators per m² (floor area), plus 0.2 isolators per m² for non-rectangular shapes.

- Mineral wool:

  • Density: Minimum: 16 kg/m³; maximum 44 kg/m³.

Floating substrate

Two layers of 15 mm-thick acoustic plasterboard, contractor-supplied.

Flooring

Single layer of 15 mm-thick plywood (contractor-supplied).

Perimeter seals

Farrat CineFLOOR LITE Perimeter Isolation Strip.

Guidance for specification option:

  • Product code: 2CF-L-02.
  • Length: 2000 mm.
  • Installation: Allow 0.5 strips per meter of perimeter, including penetrations, plus 10% for off-cuts etc.

Floor finish

Plywood.

Height

110 mm.

Weight

0.5 kN/m².

Frequency

At operating load: 9 Hz.
At dead load: 17 Hz.

Manufacturer guidance

Natural frequency (ƒn).

Loading

Live load: 5 kN/m².
Point load: 4 kN (minimum 1000 mm centres).

Gap

50 mm.

Guidance for specification option:

Air gap.

Sound reduction

Weighted sound reduction index (Rw): 71 dB.
Impact sound reduction (ΔLw): 34 dB.

Manufacturer guidance

Consult manufacturer's literature for detailed sound reduction index values.

Fire resistance

To EN 1994-1-2: 2010, 90 minutes.

Guidance for specification option:

Based on 160 mm MD05-V3 Composite Deck in a multi-span configuration.

Test Standard

Acoustic.

Guidance for specification option:

Based on 140 mm structural slab, no ceiling.

  • Acoustic (airborne): ISO 10140-1,2,4: 2020; ISO 717-1: 2013.
  • Acoustic (impact): ISO 10140-1,3: 2010; ISO 717-2: 2013.


Sustainability data

Contains Red List materials

No

Country of material origin

United Kingdom

Country of product manufacture

United Kingdom

Third party certifications

ISO 9001 Quality Management

ISO 9001 Quality Management

ISO 9001 (Farrat Isolevel Ltd)

ISO 9001 Quality Management

ISO 9001 Quality Management

ISO 9001 (Farrat Installation Services Ltd)

Literature

Farrat CineFLOOR LITE

Farrat CineFLOOR LITE

Case studies

Ealing Picturehouse Cinema, London

Ealing Picturehouse Cinema, London