Small studio build in Tallinn, Estonia
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 2:41 am
Greetings each and every one!
First of all, thank you to John and administration for keeping this forum alive and sharing the knowledge with people around the world. And also, people/users who posted and still posting their studio builds processes - this forum is special!
And of course, the second:
We would like to build a small recording/ rehearsaling studio space for our own use. Main purpose: to rehearsal with our band, record and mix our music. The place as I feel could fit us four-five playing instruments and recording vocals. But! Yeah, we have a really limited space. If you ask why we should build here, instead of looking for another space? (Cause of course in such small city like Tallinn, you still could find larger spaces for rent)
Well, really easy to answer:
- we are already here for three years
- haven't got any troubles with neighbours as we are located in the area of building were no offices located
- haven't got any problems with the landlord
- we are on the first floor
- we have confirmed, that we can do any kind of recostructions at this place
- and of course monthly fee is really affordable for us
- we can play and do studio here and that's whitout any problem
Limitations:
- there is a halfway, where workers of cafe (cause it is located nearby our room) deliver products at the daytime and they running with forklift through the halfway to the backyard - that's the loudest sound coming from outside of our space. From 7am to 5pm usually on the working-days.
- there is a door which is totally sealed and we can't open it. This door leads to another room where somebody using it for a storage. We can't remove it or build a solid brick wall instead of it (that's only one restriction, that we have for now). It is located on the front wall, behind the soffits (which you will see on the sketch up file or on the .pdf plan)
- space
Room size/ Structure of the room:
- total size is 27,4 m2
- there are two separate small rooms; wc 3,52 m2 and shower 3,18 m2
- the actual "living space" or studio space is 20,7 m2, not to mention future vocal booth
This is old soviet, shoe-fabric building and with brick walls and concrete ceiling.
4.9 m height
5,8 m long
3,6 m width
What we would like to do for studio:
- we would like to devide this 20,7 for two rooms; mixing and recording/ rehearsaling room
- we would like to turn shower to vocal booth
- WC will stay, cause we still want to use it
Budget:
- to keep construction around 2500.- ~ 3000.- euro
First thoughts: to install 50mm insulation and double layer of plaster board to the wall where the "locked" door is located, as we still can hear something through that door. Same way to use this option for the wall which devide halfway and our room (before the main frame). To use double doors on the entrance. And mainly use the wooden frame of 10cm thick with 100mm insulation inside. To close our ceiling with osb-sheets (I still need to check which thikness we can use, cause I afraid of the weight of our future ceiling, thought that plasterboard could be really heavy for our future ceiling). As the default ceiling still really high and it might be hard to fix studio ceiling on the height of 2,5 m (I think this is more or less best height for studio ceiling or I could be wrong..?) The deviding wall between mix and rec rooms has a double layer of plasterboard between frames and the same 10cm wooden frame.
Ventilation system:
We are still looking for the best method and price of it...
Sketch Up file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h0n7o8qyql7uf ... o.skp?dl=0
Plan .pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wiiham6gv4z4v ... 8.pdf?dl=0
Forgive me please If with some topics I'm not so clear, cause English is not my mother tongue and studio building is something new for me and all of us, but we are really looking forward to the process. Thank you in advance, if you could guide us somewhere to finalize our plan.
Kindly
Saimon
First of all, thank you to John and administration for keeping this forum alive and sharing the knowledge with people around the world. And also, people/users who posted and still posting their studio builds processes - this forum is special!
And of course, the second:
We would like to build a small recording/ rehearsaling studio space for our own use. Main purpose: to rehearsal with our band, record and mix our music. The place as I feel could fit us four-five playing instruments and recording vocals. But! Yeah, we have a really limited space. If you ask why we should build here, instead of looking for another space? (Cause of course in such small city like Tallinn, you still could find larger spaces for rent)
Well, really easy to answer:
- we are already here for three years
- haven't got any troubles with neighbours as we are located in the area of building were no offices located
- haven't got any problems with the landlord
- we are on the first floor
- we have confirmed, that we can do any kind of recostructions at this place
- and of course monthly fee is really affordable for us
- we can play and do studio here and that's whitout any problem
Limitations:
- there is a halfway, where workers of cafe (cause it is located nearby our room) deliver products at the daytime and they running with forklift through the halfway to the backyard - that's the loudest sound coming from outside of our space. From 7am to 5pm usually on the working-days.
- there is a door which is totally sealed and we can't open it. This door leads to another room where somebody using it for a storage. We can't remove it or build a solid brick wall instead of it (that's only one restriction, that we have for now). It is located on the front wall, behind the soffits (which you will see on the sketch up file or on the .pdf plan)
- space
Room size/ Structure of the room:
- total size is 27,4 m2
- there are two separate small rooms; wc 3,52 m2 and shower 3,18 m2
- the actual "living space" or studio space is 20,7 m2, not to mention future vocal booth
This is old soviet, shoe-fabric building and with brick walls and concrete ceiling.
4.9 m height
5,8 m long
3,6 m width
What we would like to do for studio:
- we would like to devide this 20,7 for two rooms; mixing and recording/ rehearsaling room
- we would like to turn shower to vocal booth
- WC will stay, cause we still want to use it
Budget:
- to keep construction around 2500.- ~ 3000.- euro
First thoughts: to install 50mm insulation and double layer of plaster board to the wall where the "locked" door is located, as we still can hear something through that door. Same way to use this option for the wall which devide halfway and our room (before the main frame). To use double doors on the entrance. And mainly use the wooden frame of 10cm thick with 100mm insulation inside. To close our ceiling with osb-sheets (I still need to check which thikness we can use, cause I afraid of the weight of our future ceiling, thought that plasterboard could be really heavy for our future ceiling). As the default ceiling still really high and it might be hard to fix studio ceiling on the height of 2,5 m (I think this is more or less best height for studio ceiling or I could be wrong..?) The deviding wall between mix and rec rooms has a double layer of plasterboard between frames and the same 10cm wooden frame.
Ventilation system:
We are still looking for the best method and price of it...
Sketch Up file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h0n7o8qyql7uf ... o.skp?dl=0
Plan .pdf
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wiiham6gv4z4v ... 8.pdf?dl=0
Forgive me please If with some topics I'm not so clear, cause English is not my mother tongue and studio building is something new for me and all of us, but we are really looking forward to the process. Thank you in advance, if you could guide us somewhere to finalize our plan.
Kindly
Saimon