Soundproofing Magazine
Soundproofing advice and information for Drummers.
Blog part 4
Issue#4 Construction
The main construction processes
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| Lay The Floor |
Stage4 Part1
The
floor and walls of the inner room can easily be isolated from the concrete
garage floor by putting down a 25mm (1") layer of polystyrene sheet. Despite
being polystyrene, this material is very strong in compression. It will provide
very good thermal insulation, but more importantly, it will for prevent
vibration from being transmitted from the walls down into the floor and
therefore into the main structure of the building..
Polystyrene sheeting
laid on the floor
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| Building The Stud Wall |
stage 4 Part 2
Erect the inner stud wall
The stud
frame for the inner wall was put up next. It would have been better to avoid
connecting the top of the uprights to the rafter joists. This causes sound to be
transmitted from the inner walls into the exterior frame of the building. This
turned out not to be a massive problem, but the room would have performed better
had the situation been designed around.
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| Board Out The Inner Walls | Stage 4 Part 3
The
inner walls of the practice room were then boarded out with a double layer of
plasterboard.
Boarding out the inner walls
A
standard door (in the UK at least) is 30" wide. However, I thought that in the
future, I may want to put something large like an upright
piano
into the practice room. Therefore, I put in a 33" door to give that bit of extra
space
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| Finish The Outer Walls | Stage 4 Part 4
Construction of the
outer wall was actually last stage to be completed, but I'll put it in here
because it fits at this point.
The
outer wall completed with the doors hung and an access hatch to the roof space
above the practice room. The holes drilled in the door are to allow air in when
the extractor fan it running.
It was
at the point when I put the plasterboard on the outer wall that I discovered how
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