John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum Archive

I saw a company who do garden rooms/buildings - they say :

“there’s no need for a concrete foundation for their buildings, instead they use a specially designed concrete pad with piled designed foundations.
This means we can install onto uneven ground. Also using this system allows great ventilation underneath the structure thus preventing rising damp”

Not sure what their system is or where you get these pads from.

Is this possible when building a decent studio or do I still need a concrete foundation?

It would save me having to dig out a base and fill it with concrete that’s for sure.

Thanks

... in which case the floor is not damped by the ground, so it is basically a giant drum head, that will ring and resonant boomily...

By far the best floor for any studio, is slab-on-grade.

- Stuart -

Thanks Stuart, yes I’ll go with a standard concrete base then.

Would it make sense to pipe the electric in to the base first and then pour the concrete in? I thought if you did your base first and THEN you tried to pipe your electric in that this might cause a flanking issue going between the 2 leafs as you piped it through.

Would it make sense to pipe the electric in to the base first and then pour the concrete in? I thought if you did your base first and THEN you tried to pipe your electric in that this might cause a flanking issue going between the 2 leafs as you piped it through.

Install conduit throughout the area and then pour the slab. As you can imagine, having a COMPLETE SketchUp design is critical to know where your conduit needs to be. This is conduit used for electrical, data, audio, etc.

Greg