Now for an episode of "This Old Room"
Now bear with me here!
I just built an 18'X 19' room with the same wall design. In between my house and another building farther back. The building was there, but it was falling apart, and shit. So, I put a new roof on because the old one collapsed from too much snow before I was here. I supported the new roof with jacks and posts, and ripped everything under it down to the ground. Then dug nine 16"X 36" holes, poured some concrete, and built a new floor off of some posts like a deck. Before I sheathed the floor I insulated it with R-19 certainteed, then sheathed it with 3/4" tongue and groove. I built two outside walls then sheathed them with 1/2" OSB. I probably should have gone thicker but, money was a big factor at that time. A buddy of mine does flooring, so he was able to get me mad amounts of 5/8" pad. I stapled some to the inside of the OSB in between the studs that the OSB was "SCREWED" to, and behind the inside studs, then insulated the walls with 16" R-19. I stapled it from one inside stud, to one outside stud. I did the same with the one interior wall too, only with sheetrock instead of OSB. The back wall still has the other building behind it, like a little barn kind of, So I just built a normal 2X4 wall. I rocked it all with 1/2", and put an exterior door on the interior wall. It's all mudded, and taped, and connected to the house with a six foot space for a utility room with another door in between the house and the sound room. So that makes my room 12'x 19'. Knowing I wasn't done with the walls yet, I rolled out some carpet, and we set up to play for the hell of it. "Alot" of sound is blocked right now, but as you can imagine with the rocked walls, it's like a big friggin' can. The next ingredient in my particular project is going to be 3/4" homasote. It has awesome sound barrier properties, and will deadin the room beautifully. I'm going to leave the backwall sheetrock at first. I don't want it too dead. The room right now has a strong echo. If you think about it, an echo is a double of whatever the sound is. It's going to make it louder. Take away the echo, and you take away almost half of the volume. I'm not saying Echo=Volume as a rule, but in this case, I know it does, Because the drums are alot louder now, than when the room was just insulation. The homasote is kind of costly so I'm at a stand still again. But I think with some homasote and some auralex...I'm on to something. Sorry if that was all boring, I had a good time sharing it.
Peace and drugs (I mean Love),
T.J.Hooker
