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I’m adding two more layers to one side of the structure. There is a 2” gap where the sheets will go leaving a 1/4” gap. Which side of the additional sheets should the gap be?

I’ve had several suggestions to use a resilient material under the wall between the wall plate and the floor. My floor is a concrete slab and in my reading, information about how a concrete slab transmits sound is all over the map. Or I’m not understanding what I’m reading. I need to decide...

The Drum Bubble The room’s only purpose is to contain my drum kit and allow me to play with some privacy and not intrude on my family or the neighborhood. Here’s what I built: a 7’x9’x8’ room in a room, 2”x4” framing with rockwool in the bays, on the concrete slab of my garage. The entire...

My room build got to the point where I could actually start testing. The initial results are disappointing, but fixable I think. Originally I installed a window AC up on one wall which was inexpensive at $180 and did a great job of cooling the room. But in my tests it was clearly leaking a...

For a very small studio, the only space I had to work with was a nook in my garage about 7x9 with an 8’ ceiling. In this space, I built a room, completely decoupled from the house, constructed of two layers of 5/8” drywall with green glue outside and inside, four layers all together, on 2x4...