Storage room -> Music practice room
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:48 pm
Hi everyone, I am Max,
First of all, thanks for all the effort and time that has been put into this amazing knowledge base. After quite some time of reading it, I'm thinking whether what I have in mind is feasible or not.
Overview:
I would like to convert the storage room on the top floor of my building to a room where I can play music and maybe record/mix some demos. The main goal is noise reduction, I plan to do the acoustic treatment later on.
Instruments I play:
Here is a link to the SketchUp file!
Sketch File
Thank you in advance!
First of all, thanks for all the effort and time that has been put into this amazing knowledge base. After quite some time of reading it, I'm thinking whether what I have in mind is feasible or not.
Overview:
I would like to convert the storage room on the top floor of my building to a room where I can play music and maybe record/mix some demos. The main goal is noise reduction, I plan to do the acoustic treatment later on.
Instruments I play:
- Acoustic/Electric guitar
- Singing
- Maybe I would like to get an e-drum kit
- I measured with a db meter app 1 meter away and it shows between 95/100 db-C when I'm playing acoustic guitar/singing, maybe this is not very accurate. (When I'm not playing the meter shows 40db-C).
- Hopefully 45/50db but I know that this will be very difficult.
- I would preferably not spend more than 10k euro, just for the noise reduction.
- It is located in the 4th (top) floor of an old Amsterdam house from 1912 (it's currently a storage room), so there are no neighbours above. Only neighbours below and to 2 of the sides.
- It is roughly 4,40m x 2,2m x 2,2m height until the start of the ceiling wooden beams.
- 2 of the walls are brick walls.
- The other 2 walls are made of a very thin layer of wood and don't have any kind of insulation at all. The only use is to divide the storage spaces.
- Joists floor construction with plywood sheets on top of it. My assumption is that between the plywood sheet and the drywall ceiling downstairs there is nothing in the middle. The flooring noise reduction is
my biggest concern being that the available height is very limited for this room.
- Remove the 2 wooden walls and build them again with metal studs, cover with dry wall just the outer, glass wool in the middle and leave the other side open.
- Plan electricity and ventilation.
- Build box in a box with metal studs, with glass wool and cover with dry wall only the inner side of the inner walls, install inner door, and inner window.
- Fill in the space between the wooden beams in the ceiling with rock wool, and install a ceiling decoupled from the walls.
- Build a decoupled floor (I still need to check what can be done here that doesn't use a lot of height). I think it would be okay if I end up with a total room height after box in a box of around 2m.
Here is a link to the SketchUp file!
Sketch File
Thank you in advance!