Soundman2020 - Studio Design Forum

5354 Nice work. I like the side noggins too! The roof is of course at a slight angle, will you be building the inner room with a flat ceiling? It would make certain aspects of the acoustics simpler. 5350 Thanks also for the thoughts on the door. This diary is a bit retrospective, so the OSB has gon...

Day 336 - OSB arrives for the roof and outer skin. A whole week of sunshine predicted; excited to see what I could get done. IMG_20220830_091846.jpg Spent most of the day tidying up a few bits and stapling the DPM round the foundation slab up onto the studwork. Day 337 - Roof OSB goes on - My Dad, a...

Day 334 - Roof joists and Truss Clips go on. This was quite a straight-forward process, although the joists were heavy. My 12 year old son helped out; who said child labour was over ;) IMG_20220828_161531.jpg IMG_20220828_175508.jpg IMG_20220828_175554.jpg IMG_20220828_175643.jpg IMG_20220828_175653...

5339 I've found a mains powered electric drill to be a godsend when drilling into masonry! It doesn't surprise me that the carpentry is a bit off square. I believe carpentry is done to lower tolerances than joinery, and is one of the reasons a door frame is an added structure with the stud wall. Th...

Day 333 - Noggins go in along with 150mm concrete screws in between all studs through sole plate. these things clamp the sole plate to the slab like a vice but drain the drills fast. 6mm Pilot holes with hammer drill first; really hard getting these in. the frame is 'going nowhere' now, haha. IMG_20...

5329 well, at least the easy part is over :-) looks great! Thanks. Yep should be plain sailing from here... :lol: Now that the concrete was curing, I had to once again focus on the house renovations and squeeze in a family holiday. So fast forward to... Day 331 - 25th August - Wood arrives for exte...

... Day 236 - DPM and Insulation installed IMG_20220529_190938.jpg Day 244 - Mesh in and Cement mixer pump arrives! IMG_20220530_093625.jpg IMG_20220530_111756.jpg Lots of pipe! IMG_20220530_120036.jpg IMG_20220530_115040.jpg Pumping! we had to move it all around with rakes - very messy and I learnt...

Hi all, Following up on my thread in the Design forum (https://www.digistar.cl/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=950) I will be posting my progress here. The ground works (slab) were finally completed in June this year. Excavation of my rear garden began in September 2021 however, so i'll try to get up ...

endorka wrote:Qr Bbpost Exciting stuff. Looks like a good sized room with the short external dimension being 5m?

Yep. internal dimensions should be 6m x 4.5.

Ok, haven't been posting much but after almost a year of off and on groundworks, the structure of the studio is going up. I have been doing everything pretty much by myself so it’s been slow progress; lots of things for the first time too. The ground works have been getting done in-between trying to...

Thanks for all the concerns/suggestions guys. The sun actually rises behind the studio and continues it's arc up and around the side (where the smaller, wide window resides), I have considered it's path and think it will be fine. I was saying probably but that was because the plans are not final yet...

Hi all, thought I would provide an update as to the current direction. Thinking about the main use of the room, I want it to be a recording studio AND a room that can turn out decent mixes. Obviously there will ahve to be compromises but I'll do my best to have a fairly decent environment for both a...

4211 Hi Sam Your build sounds very similar to mine. Whereabouts are you? Hi Gareth! thanks for the generous offer! I'm in Surrey. I would gladly share the benefit of my experience having nearly completed something similar and some of the mistakes I made that you might be able to avoid. Send me a pm...

Thanks for the answers and sorry it has taken me a while to respond but I am also renovating the house at present, pretty much by myself, so I have been flat out with that... 4209 'She' roof? sorry, what is that? Damn this keyboard! It's in a really bad state, and I have to replace it, but I'm not k...

4200 Hi there Sam, and Welcome to the Forum! :thu: :) Thanks for the welcome! Hopefully I can add something, with my build, that will be valuable for future builders! 8-) I’m looking to build a humble recording/mixing studio at the bottom of my garden. :yahoo: I bet that's how you feel, after takin...