Stablegate Studio construction, England

I fnally got around to selecting pictures to show the construction progress of my small garden studio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/99314602@N ... 681739957/ The specification was that it had to look good and fit into our garden and that it could be reverted easily to a garden room or hobby room if we needed to sell the house. Acoustically, it needed to provide a decent space to play mainly acoustic instruments and occasional electric guitars not played at full crank and it would never have to track drums in it. I am currently fitting Rockwool rwa45 to the walls; then it's RC1 and then two layers of Gyproc - 19mm planking and 15mm acoustic board with a layer of GG in between. Any questions and suggestions would be gratefully received. 8) My budget was £15k - about US$23k and I'll just about do it for that. This includes the groundwork and base brickwork that accounted for about a third of that cost.

terrible workmanship, you will have to take it down and send it here :) very nice work! if possible, use 2x 19mm drywall instead of mixing the sizes as the increase in mass will help with LF isolation.

Thanks, it has been a labour of love - apart from the damn acoustic caulking and getting the roof insulation to stay in place. :evil: I will consider your 2x19mm suggestion; any idea what the db attenuation difference will be by going that route?

Very impressive work, wish my carpentry skills were as good as yours :D

Roguejackal wrote:

Very impressive work, wish my carpentry skills were as good as yours :D

Thanks but its mainly trial and error. Sometimes you just have to jump in and try stuff out. And the joints are just screwed butt joints - nothing fancy. Getting the angles right is most of the battle but once you have the measuring tools to get the correct angles and a decent power saw, you are largely home and dry.

The latest picture with the outside lamps on at night. I also painted the base wall inside with waterproof mastic paint. Despite the tremendous rain over the past week, the single skin brickwork was dry as a bone on the inside. I reckon my plan to use engineering bricks has paid off. :P I'll post more pics from the inside when the electricians have finished their work on Tuesday.

Updated photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/99314602@N ... 620588151/