Newbie. Question about sealing a room

Started by danframpton on 17 March 2006. 4 replies.

Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 5838.

Hi everyone. (I have read through the rules and I hope I can abide by them.) Great site! I have enjoyed reading through all the posts. I have recently blocked in where my garage door was and installed a sealed double glazed unit. I intend to build a home mix room for my portable Protools rig in this new room and have found some detail drawings on the sae site that I now realise are the work of John Sayers. The garage has a flat roof and one side adjoins the outside wall of my house. I want to be sure that I can work late and not have my young children complain about the noise. All fairly standard so far I know. I do however have a twist to all this....... I want the studio to look like a standard room and also be used as a spare room. I am putting a nice sofa bed in, to double for client comfort and spare bed. I have been intending to build a fairly standard 'inside out wall' type construction. Whilst talking to the building inspector who is overseeing the construction I realised that I had overlooked something in my plans. Because I want it to look like a standard room (and because the building inspector requires the window to be a fire exit) I haven't intended to put a pane of glass in the inner room. I had purely intended to take the material surface of my finish across onto the sill of the outer window. I have realised of coarse that this will destroy the seal within the room. I am wondering now whether I can achieve a seal to the window in a similar way to the floor. ie. a window board and surround (maybe mdf or suchlike,) mounted and sealed against neoprene. The building inspector also raised a concern that with all the Rockwool/Fibreglass I intend to use there will be a danger of condensation because of the un-vented airspace in the ceiling cavity. I have to admit I was a bit confused by this. Can anyone help answer either of these questions? PS. The wall that has just been built in the front of the garage has two low-level airbricks to vent the timber floor. Is this a problem? Thanks in advance to anyone who has read this far....
Dan, any chance of a couple of pix and/or a floor plan so we can get a better idea of what you have? Thanks.. steve
Very Basic I'm affraid but hopefully these will help.
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I have also taken these pictures showing the window, which is yet to be installed and also the ceiling. I have been doing some research into the condensation question. What I understand is that due to a lack of air circulation there may be a condensation problem. The building inspector suggested putting four mushroom vents in the roof, although he pointed out that this would spoil the insulation rating and therefore require a further 10 inches of rockwool. I can't say I'm keen to put four holes in a flat roof as they are notorious for leaking. Is this my only option or can you suggest another way? Thanks for the response Steve.
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Sorry. Should have resized the hieght, not the width. Here it is again.
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