Testimonials

School Hall Curtains

Work Requested for the Client

The client is a prestigious school. They have decided to upgrade the school hall curtains. Previously fitted was very old vertical blinds and roller blinds to provide a standardised shading solution. However by nature blinds as a solid structure are not very good for acoustics. It was decided to use a flame retardant velvet material that was a trevira, this meant that it could be washed and continue to be flame retardant.

The tracking needed to be installed on the high slit windows all the way around the assembly hall of the school.

Products Required

The curtains were manufactured with a robust 3" pencil pleat heading, the curtain tracks installed were a combination of corded tracks that were child safe for the high windows and hand drawn heavy duty tracks for the lower windows.

Flame Retardant Curtains

Hand Drawn Curtain Track

Cord Drawn Curtain Track

Photos from the Project

Conclusion to Project

The client was extremly happy with the service provided by Direct Fabrics ans now is looking to replace the stage curtains.

Marriott Hotel Testimonial - Function Room Wave Curtains

Work Requested for the Client

Initially, the products requested were flame retardant roman blinds in a Creation Baumann fabric that had been specified by the group's architect. However, when evaluating the suitability of using full-length roman blinds over 350cm, it was decided that they would have issues over time due to the inherent defects caused by using roman blinds. Roman blinds on long length put too much strain on to the stitching. Also having chain mechanisms in a high traffic area gives the opportunity for misuse. Based on this the decision was made to use a simple tracking system with draw rods and a wave heading option for a clean finish.

Products Required

Flame Retardant Curtains

Hotel Contract Curtains

The curtains used were made with a Creation Baumann curtain fabric with a wave heading attached to a heavy-duty top fix curtain track.

Photos from the Project

Conclusion to Project

An excellent project to be part of and to come in 50% lower in price.

Recording Studio Curtains Acoustic Drapes

Introduction to the Client

From the company website BIG JAM STUDIOS

Big Jam is a Music, Video, Photography, rehearsal and recording studio founded by producer Kevin Thorpe in 2012. We are the only studio in Kent to be visited by ITV’s X Factor in 2016, and we’re regularly producing potential hits.

Big Jam Studios is fast becoming hailed as the most comfortable yet professional recording studio to get big results on your music no matter what genre you perform. Our music rehearsal and recording studio boasts some of the best facilities in the area."

Work Requested

To supply black wool serge surround  acoustic drapes for the studio with a low cost tracking that could be self mounted around bends.

By applying drapes around the recording and performance studio you get a much better dampening and deadening of sound within a space and this leads to a better recording space. You will stop reverberation and echo within a space and create clear sounds for the people within the space.

Using black wool serge it is a very plain fabric aesthetically which means it just borders very well the studio space and also it is a very sound absorptive fabric that will help take away the overwhelming volume in a small studio

If you are completing a project with acoustics it is worth reading the following Understanding Acoustics Article

Products Required

Acoustic Black Wool Serge Curtains

Fineline Heavy Weight Curtain Track

The curtain track used was one for a budget to complete the space. It works incredibly well even with heavier drapes as the fixing are metal and so is the rail itself. So by installing the brackets regularly, it will hold the weight of the stage style drapes surrounding the recording space.

Photos from the Project

Testimonial

Brilliant Curtains and they look great and reduce the sound significantly passing to other spaces in the centre.

Conclusion to Project

A successful project using our black wool serge flame retardant fabric. This can be purchased as our client in a made to measure format, or by the metre see the link above.