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mcgibbon
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Hello everyone,
I am planning on building an entirely new structure at the back of my house in the garden which will have 2 new rooms. The one room I will use as an office and the other room will be a music room and I want to soundproof just the music room and I would like some advice on how I should do it. Basically from the existing house I will have a door going into the the new office and then from the office I will walk down a small passage which leads to the music room. At the beginning of the passage there will be a door and at the end of the passage there will be another door. The music room will have no windows and will have a double concrete foundation incase I wish to extend upwards at a later date. The music room will also have a flat concrete ceiling. Another thing is the house has a garden inbetween all the neighbours (10 meters away)
Am I safe in assuming that a double concrete foundation will eliminate the need to treat the floor in the music room? What about the roof? Will a slab on concrete be a good start and then start building a room within a room?
Seeing as the structure does not exist yet I want to get the best options possible before I start. I was planning on putting up a double brick around the music room and then have another single brick wall 6 inches in from that and I thought that that may be good enough but after reading a few articles on the web it seems that it wont be. I am not too worried about space as the music room dimensions are quite large.
I was planning on raising the floor in the passageway with another slab of concrete so that when you get to the music room you open the door and take a step down into the music room. That way I can ensure that when the door closes its tight fitting on all 4 edges to the door frame. I will use some form of a rubber seal to assist making it as sealed as possible.
Once the room has been built to stop the sound from getting out I will treat the sound accoustic. I have attached a small jpg image of the layout of the room.
Anyone have any ideas/thoughts on this?
Many thanks in advance!
Grant
I am planning on building an entirely new structure at the back of my house in the garden which will have 2 new rooms. The one room I will use as an office and the other room will be a music room and I want to soundproof just the music room and I would like some advice on how I should do it. Basically from the existing house I will have a door going into the the new office and then from the office I will walk down a small passage which leads to the music room. At the beginning of the passage there will be a door and at the end of the passage there will be another door. The music room will have no windows and will have a double concrete foundation incase I wish to extend upwards at a later date. The music room will also have a flat concrete ceiling. Another thing is the house has a garden inbetween all the neighbours (10 meters away)
Am I safe in assuming that a double concrete foundation will eliminate the need to treat the floor in the music room? What about the roof? Will a slab on concrete be a good start and then start building a room within a room?
Seeing as the structure does not exist yet I want to get the best options possible before I start. I was planning on putting up a double brick around the music room and then have another single brick wall 6 inches in from that and I thought that that may be good enough but after reading a few articles on the web it seems that it wont be. I am not too worried about space as the music room dimensions are quite large.
I was planning on raising the floor in the passageway with another slab of concrete so that when you get to the music room you open the door and take a step down into the music room. That way I can ensure that when the door closes its tight fitting on all 4 edges to the door frame. I will use some form of a rubber seal to assist making it as sealed as possible.
Once the room has been built to stop the sound from getting out I will treat the sound accoustic. I have attached a small jpg image of the layout of the room.
Anyone have any ideas/thoughts on this?
Many thanks in advance!
Grant
But it will help the room to sound right/balanced. The isolation construction will prevent sound from getting in or out. 