The Eggshell effect
Eggs are remarkable creations. Not only because they are the beginning of a new life or because they are good and healthy eating.
In this case i’m thinking more about the design of the egg. A soft core is surrounded by a thin hard shell with a smooth texture. if you hold it in your hand or expose it to light pressure, it feels solid as a rock, but to a limit, where the pressure reaches a certain point, the thin shell gives in and cracks up in dozens of pieces. Once it is broken you will never be able to put the pieces back again.
Compare it with a grapefruit or an orange. The shells of those are softer and flexes with the pressure they are exposed to. The risk is relatively small that it will crack and fall into multiple pieces.
I guess everyone has guessed where i’m going by now.
If you have a hard core, it will definitely go best together with a hard shell.
If you have a soft core, you’d better go for a soft shell to avoid the eggshell effect.
If you have a soft core and a hard shell, you are living in an illusion and i wish you good luck. You are going to need it.
The Fellert Acoustical Ceiling systems Alpha, Ultra and Even Better are all soft core, soft shell products. We are constantly patronized by our competitors who promotes the soft core, hard shell combination.
This Hard shell illusion looks very good as a small sample given to the architect. But an architectural sample is one thing and a 1000 m2 ceiling is another thing.
We at Fellert are very proud of our Reactivation technology which makes it possible for us to patch repair a damaged ceiling. For most people a patch repair is something ugly, but with Fellert it isn’t. In fact you will not be able to see the patch repair at all, if it is correctly done.
A damaged soft core, hard shell system is something completely different. A patch repair in such a ceiling will look like an infected spot, impossible to hide.
The only way to keep that ceiling looking good is to repair and respray the whole section, meaning that you can be forced to respray up to 400 m2 worst case.
Just imagine the cost for this. You will need to stop the commerce in the facility, remove all furniture and decorations, mask the entire floor and all connecting walls and erect scaffolds before you can even think of beginning to do the repair and respray.
Still preferring the soft core, hard shell systems, do you?
Watch the video on the front page of https://www.fellert.com or follow this YouTube link to discover how strong and durable a soft core, soft shell product can be.
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