Hey everybody,
I am helping a friend design a practice space in his garage for his band, after reading about the floating floor in the stickies, I realize we probably don't need to build one. However there is a concrete floor in there and we would like to do something other than concrete. Is it a bad idea to do a floating timber floor like this one?
http://johnlsayers.com/Recmanual/Titles/Acoustics3.htm click on the flooring tab to see the example
Would it offer anything in isolation or acoustics at all? Not that it matters, but if it doesn't then I dont wanna spend the $ on the Insulation for it.
Thanks,
B
Recommendations for a floor
Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 13948.
The example you directed to is designed for creating isolation so as you aren't looking to obtain isolation with your floor just a straight laminate floor directly on the concrete would suffice.
The other option is staining the concrete like this studio floor. A concrete cutter was used to create the tile shapes before staining.
http://www.johnlsayers.com/Pages/jergen.htm
That looks pretty sweet...like big tiles. We are taking steps to soundproof the walls so really the isolation properties of the floor would'nt be a bad thing either. The walls will be the existing studs with rockwool then treated with resilient channel, cieling with hat channel, then 1 layer of 5/8 drywall and 1 layer of 1/2 drywall. This is an attached garage where one of the walls is shared with the living room. Just from what I've read in the sticky's, it seems as though a floating floor isn't going to help much with the STC. (Correct me if I'm wrong here)
Thanks,
B
I think your money would be better spend building a room within room. Only one layer of 5/8 would be needed and a laminate floor would give you some extra isolation.
Yeah okay, would there still be a need for the resilient channel if we went this route? The reason I ask is that we are on a pretty limited budget.
Thanks,
B
If you do what John said, and build a proper "room within a room", then no, you do not need resilient channel. The framing for the inner "room" is already decoupled from teh outer "room", so adding RC is pointless. The purpose of RC is to decouple, but the framing already decouples. So you can save money there by not using RC, provided that you take great care to ensure that the inner-leaf framing is totally decoupled from the existing walls and ceiling. - Stuart -Yeah okay, would there still be a need for the resilient channel if we went this route?