Ventilation

Now I really need to decide on how to do the ventilation. Since the old inlet is in the wrong place (see pic) I need at least two new inlets and I need to decide where they will be. I also don't now if I need a dedicated outlet from the computer box. I have gotten a tip about a guy here in Luleå which had a similar problem when he did his studio. I must call him.

Some progress on the walls!

I have really made some progress now on the wall stud frames. Three out of four frames are now in place and I will try to finish the last one and arrange the roof studs during the weeks to come.

Floor done!

I have just finished glueing the second layer of floor chip board. The floor is now done and I can start with the wall studs, really nice! I was really curious how the floor would feel in terms of stability (how "massive" it would feel) and it seemed to have worked out quite well. It feels really solid and heavy. Wall stud framing next!

Pics

New floor:

















Ventilation idea:

Ventilation

Something that (I guess) is a quite common issue among home studio builders is ventilation. If you want a soundproof room, the physics require that room to be as airtight as possible. That doesn't fly very well with good ventilation. In my case, I need to find a good compromise between good sound proofing and good ventilation. Although most of the time i'll be alone in the studio, there will (hopefully!) be occasions where I rehearse and record a small band.

In order to achieve this, my idea is to have two ventilation ducts letting air in from the outside and have one air outlet from the room. The outlet will have a really quite, big, slow moving cylindrical fan which can be turned off when really sensitive recordings are to be done. I'll also have some fans in a computer box where the computers will be.

(Still no pics function, I'll update as soon as possible...)

First layer of floor done!

The first layer of the chip board floor is now in place! After the floor stud adjustment nightmare, the first layer is now in place and looks really nice. It turns out that the overall height difference over 4.50 meters is about 7 mm which is ok (and pretty good in this garage!). My nice father in law did an effort the other day and finalized the first layer. The second layer is coming up soon! I'll try to buy it so that I can put it in place during the weekend. I have two choir concerts coming up on sunday so it is only saturday that is available for building.

Right now it seems like there is some blogger error so that I cannot upload any pics. I'll update as soon as possible.

Tilting floors are not nice!

I have now spent a lot (read 2 full days) of rearranging the floor studs in order to get the floor completly even. Imagine that you have the drain in the middle of the floor with the floor tilting everywhere towards the drain roughly one centimeter per meter. It was really a nightmare! I am now at last approaching a flat, even floor with only some final adjustments to be done. Yesterday, I bought some floor isolation (mineral wool) as well as floor chip boards. I have also gotten hold of a laser to use for measurement.

Since I will use two layer floor chip boards I need to glue them together with some proper glue. There are all sorts of glue available but I would like to have glue which not only holds the boards together but also act as an acoustic dampener. Unfortunately, that kind of glue is not cheap. One particular brand, Ardex S48, would probably cost me about 6000 SEK for the floor, walls and the ceilling. I'd love to find a cheaper alternative! Any suggestions?