DIY
Dance Away with a Floating Dance Floor
If you are into dancing or exercising, either professionally or casually, you more than likely understand the importance of a certain type of flooring. This design is called a floating dance floor or sprung floor. Floating floors are most often seen being used in dance studios to protect the dancers from stress injury caused by […]
Tags: Closed-Cell Foam, DIY
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Fun DIY Halloween Decor and Crafts
Halloween decorations and crafts play a huge role in making your home, yard, or event more enjoyable for visitors. Trick-or-treaters approach a decorated home with much greater anticipation and excitement than an undecorated one, and partygoers are much more likely to get into the right spirit when surrounded by themed crafts and decor. Although […]
Tags: Closed-Cell Foam, Color Foam, DIY, halloween decor
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How to Make a DIY Foam Pit
Gymnasts, acrobats, and extreme athletes have long relied on foam pits to give them a safe area in which to develop new moves and work on perfecting their technique while minimizing the risk of severe injury. Usually these pits can only be found at sports training facilities, skateparks, and in the backyards of X-Games stars […]
Tags: DIY, Extreme Sports, Foam Pit
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Cut Foam Easily with These DIY Open-Cell Foam Cutting Tips
At The Foam Factory, we offer a broad range of foam cutting services, from bulk runs in the tens of thousands, to incredibly precise, computer-controlled cuts made with a stream of water .005 inches in diameter. For jobs that need a personal touch, we also have decades of skilled hand-cutting experience on our team as […]
Tags: Cut Foam, DIY, DIY Foam, Foam Inserts, Open-Cell Foam
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Pick The Right Glue For The Job: How to Select Adhesives For Bonding Foam
Whether you’re rebuilding the engine on a car or helping your child with his or her science project, things always go smoother when you use the right tools for the job. This is equally true in the world of foam, whether you’re a homeowner working on a DIY project or a business making custom seat […]
Tags: Closed-Cell Foam, DIY, Foam Glue, Open-Cell Foam, Spray Adhesive
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How To Glue Foam: Helpful DIY Foam Tips
DIY projects are more popular than they have ever been, as people look for ways to stretch a dollar, find a new hobby, or take greater ownership of the things in and around their lives. With this trend, people aren’t only taking on more of the typical at-home projects, they are also expanding their efforts […]
Tags: Couch Cushion, DIY, Foam Cushion, Open-Cell Foam, Spray Adhesive
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Strike a Bull’s-Eye With Foam Archery Practice Targets
A sport that requires skill, patience, and technical precision, archery is something that may appear easy to an observer, but actually takes an immense amount of practice, focus, and hard work to perfect. Proper form, strength, stamina, and self-awareness are all necessary for consistent success in archery. And the only way to get to this […]
Tags: Archery Target, Closed-Cell Foam, DIY, Neoprene, Polyethylene
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How To Get Better Speaker Performance Through Decoupling
A premium sound system can cost tens of thousands of dollars, but is also able to prove its value to a listener the second a favorite song reaches its crescendo, or when a blockbuster movie’s big fight scene breaks out. But no matter how much is spent on speakers and receivers, their performance will still […]
Tags: Acoustical Foam, Bass Trap, DIY, Sound Absorption, Studio Foam
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Climb Higher With Confidence Using Bouldering Crash Pads
As people focus more on their health with fun, exciting ways to stay active, rock climbing has become a particularly popular recreational activity over the last few decades. As the number of people participating in this hobby increases, it makes sense that the potential for injuries is greater than ever before, based solely on numbers. […]
Tags: Crash Pad, DIY, Foam Pad, Gym Rubber, Lux Foam
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Create Your Own Live Action Role-Play (LARP) Equipment With Custom Open and Closed-Cell Foam
Blending imagination, creativity and integrity, the world of Live Action Role Play, or LARP, features interactive stories in a real-world setting, all constructed by the games’ participants. Those participants, or LARPers, take on character roles in a fictional setting while using the physical world around them, combining role-playing board games with live performance. One of […]
Tags: Custom Pads, DIY, LARP, Polyethylene, Safety
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