Substantial posts by OSC46, who started the thread, and by the forum’s most active contributors. 22 of 50 posts are listed.
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OSC46, 6 March 2021I am building a 80m2 studio from the ground up here in Central Portugal. The studio was partially design by Stuart Allsop, who used to be on this forum. Construction…
OSC46, 6 March 2021One thing I should add that I need advice on is I am using the Yamaha HSM80 monitors which have a rear port and we plan to soffit mount these. What is the best way to do…
OSC46, 9 March 2021Wow.. Glenn.. that looks great and I will send this to Joules for sure. They started today but no large progress as they are still just clearing the site for the…
OSC46, 20 March 2021March 16th Great weather and Paul and his two helpers did a great job today. The corner of the ruin was cut off, the foundations for that side of the building cut dug…
OSC46, 29 March 2021March 22nd José and Gil showed up about 8:45. Weather is awesome. They will focus on the steel work and the frames for the front of the foundation. Paul showed up for a…
OSC46, 1 April 2021April 1st Paul and the guys arrived about 12:45 and put the bricks and got their laser level set up, boots and tools and waited. The concrete pump arrived about 13:45…
OSC46, 2 April 2021The sandy looking wall is actually granite!!! The ground is granite as well. Seemed strange to dig out 40cm of the granite, which is pretty solid and fill it with…
OSC46, 4 April 2021Original idea if you see the drawing at the beginning of this thread was to use some of the granite blocks but in the end the space is just getting smaller and smaller…
OSC46, 16 April 2021April 12th Started off sunny but was cloudy but 15. The guys made good progress on the steel shuttering now that the steel was finished. The first 3m is almost done.…
OSC46, 5 May 2021Monday April 19th Guys arrived a bit before 9. José had to deal with his car and would be coming after lunch. Metal shutters were supposed to come at 16 and did not.…
OSC46, 13 May 2021May 6th Guys arrived at normal time and Paul soon after. They have finished the walls now to the final height of where the roof will be. They still need to build the…
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OSC46, 30 May 2021May 14th I was surprised how fast it went yesterday. They got all the main beams up, supported them from underneath and put in the bricks for 85% of the roof! Wow.. They…
OSC46, 18 June 2021June 4th I messaged with Joules and he is going to come next Weds for a meeting about the studio. This is great news as I have a lot of questions for him and I will make…
TomVan, 18 June 2021OSC, Look for your posts daily to see what you have done this week. Please take a picture of your view. Very curious :) Love what you've done to the place :wink: I echo…
OSC46, 19 June 2021Thanks Tom.. We are putting two outlets for power on each of the walls in the live room. Each will have 3-4 outlets, so we can avoid extension bars on the floor. We will…
OSC46, 19 July 2021June 17th-18th They made a huge progress on putting the rock wool into the walls and Paul got the main windows in the live room part all plasterboarded and it looks…
OSC46, 15 September 2021July 20th Paul and José showed up a bit before 9.. Gil had a car accident so is out of work for a bit. Cleaned up some stuff on the roundabout and are moving the…
OSC46, 20 September 2021Yes.. I think so as well. We have had many good discussions and it is disappointing that everything has taken so long but looks like they will finally be here to make me…
OSC46, 30 November 2021It has been awhile since I posted or was on the forum. Been a bit crazy, slow, frustrating, as always but we are almost there. The building is finished except for one…
OSC46, 18 January 2022Joules has started now and all the framing of the control room and the ceiling is in. He will return in a few days to start constructing the rear bass traps for the…
OSC46, 24 January 2022We have tiled the front of the building now which looks really nice. Joules has built the speaker encasements and will finish filling the front wall with sand today..…
OSC46, 12 February 2022Some good progress was made last week and the rear bass traps were put in, the floor in the control room was laid, the front wall was tiled and all the fabric frames for…