droped ceiling treatment

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hey guys [and girls/women]....... anyways.... i will be aquiring a new space for my "studio". it will be two rooms one with a door to the other and the other open to a hallway...... there is many issues to deal with..... first. the room are very close to the central AC. and heather. second, theone room ahs a dropped ceiling. I was wondering what kind of treatments i could put ontop of the ceiling tiles [between the dropped ceiling and the subfloor of the next floor] my main concern for this is there is a a florecent light fixture int the ceiling [where tiles would be] and i am concerned about heat and it being a firehazard. third the walls of the room [on 3 sides] are hallow with no insulation. i knwo this is typical of interior walls, but should i put somethign in them..... ok well thats all i can thnk of and if i forgot any needed deatils please tell me.... thanks
 
Slim,

> I was wondering what kind of treatments i could put ontop of the ceiling tiles <

For what purpose?

If you want to make the room sound better, put in the thickest fiberglass you can manage. But if you want to minimize sound leakage to the upstairs, fiberglass will do very little.

--Ethan
 
i was looking more towards isolation [as much as possible, with in my budget]. im just a teenager working 40 hours a week at a crappy job for a crappy wage and i have to pay for my car and insurence. so i relaly dont have much, but i got a few hundred that my rents dont know about so thats how im paying for this..... i was working on my car and noticed this sticky thick plastic [maybe vinyl]. and i asume it is for a sound barrier,a nyone know about this stuff, and/or where i can get it and how much it costs.

thanks and osrry for not being specific
 
and another thing, with fiberglass is it safe to be exposed to the air becasue on one wall on the outside it doesnt go up to the subfloor and i know fiberglass can bother skin
 
You're not going to get any noticeable isolation unless you rebuild the walls adding more mass and an airtight seal for each room. Any attempts at isolation will most likely be a waste of time.

You can achieve some better sound with proper treatment. Rigid Fiberglass is great for that. It looks crappy and that is why it should be covered but it's not really much of a health issue that I am aware of. I have some (many) exposed pieces in my junky studio and it's no big deal.

A 1.5"x2'x4' piece of rigid fiberglass is about $7-10.
 
Hey dude, how much isolation to you need? what is the layout of these 2 rooms? dimensions etc. Vinyl works but only if it is airtight. It would be easeir and maybe cheaper depending on how much you value your time to remove the hanging ceiling and hang sheetrock then reinstall, you might be able to improve things with some extra mass which isnt expensive, but to do it right is alot of grunt work. you need to make friends with a carpenter ASAP unless you have the right tools.
 
oh yeah. FIBERBLASS BLOWS. it only bothers skin if you touch it, it is supposedly toxic but I have eaten enough of it over the last few years to tell you that it wont kill you immediately.
 
slimcamp said:
..... i was working on my car and noticed this sticky thick plastic [maybe vinyl]. and i asume it is for a sound barrier,a nyone know about this stuff, and/or where i can get it and how much it costs.
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That stuff is placed in the car to dampen vibrations in the sheet-metal. It has almost no value in a recording room/studio.
 
if you can make a continuous membrane of vinyl it will dampen acoustic vibrations... cant help but to.

no its not ideal because its impossible to work with but motion is motion and mass is mass.

if this stuff absorbs kinetic energy in a cars vibrations wouldnt it dampen acoustic energy as well. you would need to follow the same rules to avoid structural resonances that you do with any kind of mass but plastics may have alot to offer in isolation technology. I may be wrong. open to correction on this one guys i am a builder not an engineer.
 
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