New Studio Build Underway

[howiedrum]

A picture is worth a thousand words. In this case 50 pictures! I will spread them out over the next few posts.

Sub panel

Water/Sewage ditch. Took four days to go 100ft. by hand. Lots of rock underneath. Not sure why the plumber didn't get a ditch witch. Hit two irrigation pipes. Definitely the roughest part of the build for my wife during Covid.

Inner leaf oversized engineered ceiling joists. 24oc. Long story. Lost a few inches of height. Live and learn.

Outdoor Condenser and electric/propane lines

Wiring studio. Three holes for electric and one for cable to be installed in future surface mounted raceways.

Wiring close up. The outlet blue boxes are for my kitchenette. Another mistake. Added putty pads to them instead of removing...

Wiring in ceiling for future track lights.

Insulation arrived!

Scaffolding for Ceiling insulation. My dog Daisy is making sure everything looks good.

This is a view of the 18" gap between inner and middle leafs.

Silencer box sleeve. Close to joist but not touching!..

Gap with 5/8 drywall and green glue over OSB. This was the hardest part for the builders. The fact that we had gorgeous sunny days didn't make them any happier.

Almost done. That final piece will be built on the ground and lifted/screwed into place...

[lostandfound]

Howie.....
really compliments for the "mammoth" job you are doing!!!

Lucio

[howiedrum]

Thanks Lucio! I have been watching yours too! So nice to have this forum to share with each other. Most people where I live think I am crazy.

Here are more photos.

Inner leaf wall safe-n-sound insulation installed

Ceiling first layer of insulation. Safe-n-sound. Nice product. Easy to work with. We had to strap it in. I will fill the gap with fiberglass insulation.

Here is fiberglass insulation added in ceiling. Also strapped in.

Jeff shown here installing the fiberglass with his mask on. This was just before we were all required to wear masks.

3/4 OSB and 5/8 drywall being added. Hard to see but each stud was caulked before the OSB was attached. Green glue is behind each piece of drywall.

Exterior window. After mistakenly buying two interior commercial noise reduction windows I installed this exterior window and will add the interior windows next.

Inside view of exterior window.

View of window with first noise reduction laminated glass interior window.

[howiedrum]

Not sure why but some of those last photos were rotated. Here are more.

Drywall with mud and finished window

Electric and cable trench. Used ditch witch and it was done in four hours.

Wall primed.

Walls and baseboards painted

Kitchenette trimmed with west view

[howiedrum]

Time for doors. Started on June 4th. I hired Tom, a recommended local carpenter. Up until then I was using the GC's builders. The GC gave me a credit for four pre-hung solid core doors and 4 hours labor. Tom was $35 less per hour than the others. He also read and studied all of my door plans I sent him from a variety of sources. The other builders would not have had the patience for that. We still need to install the door closers.

Two front doors and two sheets of 1" MDF. I guess when my camera orientation is vertical it uploads horizontally.

Door jamb

Door jambs close up

Interior front door from inside hung with four heavy duty hinges

Exterior Door added. Inside view.

Outside view. Drop down seals on bottom of doors.

Tom sizing up the MDF. He ended up hanging the doors and then adding the MDF to the hung doors. It worked well and he was able to do it alone.

MDF added. We put some green glue between the layers in the field and some adhesive on edge where screws went in.

Rubber seals glued in

Close up of seals and hinges

[Starlight]

Source of the postMost people where I live think I am crazy.

But how do you know that we don't think that, too?

A great set of photos, Howie.

[endorka]

Yes, amazing work. Well done!

Cheers,
Jennifer

[SoWhat]

Greetings,

Amazing! Thanks for all the photos!

All the best,

Paul

[Starlight]

Howie, how are you doing? Have you gotten further along with your studio? We'd love to see how it has turned out.

[Dr Space]

Looking really great... They are just doing my building now so no pictures of the inside to show yet!

[howiedrum]

Starlight!!! So great to hear from you. Man I got swamped with work at the university I teach at. Two new classes and I had to video everyone one of my lectures. Anyhow I just wrapped up my semester and I can finally get back to work on the studio. I will post more pictures to add to these from back in the Fall of 2020 soon. The construction part is done so I will be posting on the treatment section of Soundman2020.

Stuart, if you are out there, I hope all is well.

Howie

[Soundman2020]

Source of the post Stuart, if you are out there, I hope all is well.

Hey there Howie! Things are looking up now, thanks! I've been off-line for way too long, and really wanting to get going again. Please do update your thread, showing where you are and letting us know what you might need help with, so we can get your place finished!

- Stuart -

[howiedrum]

What a pleasant surprise to hear from you Stuart!

Ok I am going to post pictures of where I left off. My last photos were from June 4, 2020. I will now show you what I did since then. First more on the doors. I only did two layers for the doors. If I were to do it again I would probably do three.

Rubber Seal Taped In Place and Hinges Added.

Inside Front Door.

Outside Front Door

Rubber Seal and Bottom Wood Stained Plate

Inside Door Finished with Closer, Handle, Trim, & Painted

[howiedrum]

Ok next inside-out ceiling fabric, flooring, lighting, and raceways.

Tom cutting the first layer of black fabric.

Stapling up Black Fabric

Black layer stapled

Stapling up white fabric over black

Laying Vinyl Floor

Ceiling Fabric & Floor Finished. Adding Trim.

Trim Finished. Would use thinner trim in hindsight.

Track lighting up.

Surface Mounted Raceways and Outlets

[howiedrum]

More photos.

Front Door. Still needs to be painted.

The following photo is of my front porch. It violates the setback and will have to be changed to a cantilever style, in order for my building to get permitted. I will loose 3'-7" of overhang. The builders used my fence line as the basis for determining where the building would be situated. Unfortunately part of my fence was beyond my property line. The contractor blamed the county and the county blamed the contractor. I have yet to do anything about it. I am leaning towards not changing it and having an unpermitted building. The contractor said he would do the labor for free, but that was over 6 months ago and he may be going out of business. I was just too busy to deal with this until now.

Front Porch. The posts violated my setback from road by 4ft.

REW Tests.

New Desk.

Blue Lighting. Using Feit Smart WiFi Color Changing Bulbs. I have access to all sorts of colors. Connects with my iphone. Works ok. It can take a while to get bulbs to change. But no buzzes and I can set a nice mood.

All Vaccinated! First time playing with friends. 6/9/21.

Superchunk bottom corner bass trap. Used my leftover safe n Sound.

Superchunk top corner bass trap. Used R30 Attic insulation. The straps were inserted to help with any compression. Not pretty but should do the job.

Superchunks installed.

Superchunk top eye hook. Attached white string from corner molding to the eye hook to keep it from falling in case we get an earthquake.

These last few pictures were from last week.