LemonTree
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I moved house about 6 weeks ago into a new place with a huge attic. It's about 30' x 36'. I tore apart very carefuly my last studio in the old place and am recycling most of the materials including all the timber & rockwool. Obviously the plasterboard couldn't be saved so that, caulk and screws should be the biggest part of my budget.
The floor joists up there are 6"x2" with 4" of mineral wool between them. I've done a floating floor before and intend to rubber puck the joists and run new (used) 2x2 in the opposite directions so the beams cross at right angles. I'll have my 50mm rigid Knauff RW45 between my 2x2 then particle board tongued floor sheets, a really old carpet and another layer of tongued floor boards layed in the opposite direction again and a new (hurray!) carpet over the top.
So my floor from the bottom up is 19mm plasterboard on the ceiling below, 6" joists with 4" of mineral wool, 1" rubber pucks, 2" floor joists with rigid RW45 in between, tongued particle boars, carpet, tongued particle board and another carpet... and the good news... I don't record acoustic drums. I have a roland TD3 kit and superior drummer 2.0
So for the walls and ceiling up there I'm not really sure how to attack it. I have some angled 4x2 supports and 5x2 trusses 2/3rds of the way up the roof. I've already cut and moved 3 of the angled supports on each side making an inlet for my desk on one wall and an inlet for my couch on the opposite wall.
The trusses I plan to raise 10" each to claw back some of the height I'm losing with the floating floor to 7'2"
Would panneling up the supporting trusses first then floating the floor and building a new room on the floater be overkill? I'm thinking if I double plasterboard the outsides, fill with RW54 and maybe, plasterboard..maybe just carpet halfway up and plasterboard the rest on the inside thisa will be enough.
I done the whole room within a room in the last house and it worked well but an attic isn't exactly a room. For one there's a hatch to down stairs to which I've already fitted a good quality folding sprung ladder and plan to have the control room behind a door away from that as I know it's the weakest spot for sound transmition to the rooms below.
I'll be back up there tomorrow with the camera and get some pics taken. Anyone done an attic studio before that can offer me advice?
Oh yeah..it's a semi...we have a neighbour but they are party animals so I don't see any problems there. I know I'll be making less noise than they do so I'm more concerned about not hearing them than them hearing me.
Thanks,
Alex
I moved house about 6 weeks ago into a new place with a huge attic. It's about 30' x 36'. I tore apart very carefuly my last studio in the old place and am recycling most of the materials including all the timber & rockwool. Obviously the plasterboard couldn't be saved so that, caulk and screws should be the biggest part of my budget.
The floor joists up there are 6"x2" with 4" of mineral wool between them. I've done a floating floor before and intend to rubber puck the joists and run new (used) 2x2 in the opposite directions so the beams cross at right angles. I'll have my 50mm rigid Knauff RW45 between my 2x2 then particle board tongued floor sheets, a really old carpet and another layer of tongued floor boards layed in the opposite direction again and a new (hurray!) carpet over the top.
So my floor from the bottom up is 19mm plasterboard on the ceiling below, 6" joists with 4" of mineral wool, 1" rubber pucks, 2" floor joists with rigid RW45 in between, tongued particle boars, carpet, tongued particle board and another carpet... and the good news... I don't record acoustic drums. I have a roland TD3 kit and superior drummer 2.0
So for the walls and ceiling up there I'm not really sure how to attack it. I have some angled 4x2 supports and 5x2 trusses 2/3rds of the way up the roof. I've already cut and moved 3 of the angled supports on each side making an inlet for my desk on one wall and an inlet for my couch on the opposite wall.
The trusses I plan to raise 10" each to claw back some of the height I'm losing with the floating floor to 7'2"
Would panneling up the supporting trusses first then floating the floor and building a new room on the floater be overkill? I'm thinking if I double plasterboard the outsides, fill with RW54 and maybe, plasterboard..maybe just carpet halfway up and plasterboard the rest on the inside thisa will be enough.
I done the whole room within a room in the last house and it worked well but an attic isn't exactly a room. For one there's a hatch to down stairs to which I've already fitted a good quality folding sprung ladder and plan to have the control room behind a door away from that as I know it's the weakest spot for sound transmition to the rooms below.
I'll be back up there tomorrow with the camera and get some pics taken. Anyone done an attic studio before that can offer me advice?
Oh yeah..it's a semi...we have a neighbour but they are party animals so I don't see any problems there. I know I'll be making less noise than they do so I'm more concerned about not hearing them than them hearing me.
Thanks,
Alex