DIY Home Studio Build - Part 1

[@brolls2735]

Been really enjoying your video's thanks. I feel obligated to mention you need to be carful when tightening up older homes. Your loosing all that air drying potential the cracks and holes were providing. Leaks or condensation issues that used to be able to dry can get out of hand leading to mold and rot.

[@JackofAllMinistries]

Thanks man! And thanks for the advice. Fortunately there hasn’t been any issues yet, but it’s been something I’ve been concerned about.

[@Team_Johnston]

Cool!

[@JackofAllMinistries]

Right?!

[@sickmessiah]

Great work man .. I Building a room within a basement room .. Went around the HVAC and im adding a mini split to not use the house hvac . Im using the under the stairs closet as a server for my PC and cat6 routing for both audio and Ethernet . The room within a room main room its self is completely dethatched except its on the foundation .. Filled the floor Jostes with rockwool . The room framing includes a new ceiling with more rockwool in-between those studs . Under that is MLV completely taped and ceiled . resilient channel over the MLV ( in hope of some diaphragmatic action .. LOL ) Plywood on the ceiling to i can hand my full ceiling cloud easily . liquid nailed the first layer of drywall to the ply on the ceiling . Green glue then my second layer of drywall .. All soundbreak xp drywall on both layers . I left the exciting studs and drywall of the old build behind the new build because that should be something else to grab some sound . Plus one wall is the walkout wall so im not surrounded by concrete anyway .. I cut the existing old builds wall against the concrete so whatever sound that does make it to that wall wont travel through the other side of the basement through vibration . So its not directly attached to the rest of the basement like it was before ... I hope im up and going in a few months .. I work 60 hour work weeks on nights and im gone all week until the weekend .. So im almost 3 years into the slow remodel .. ugh

[@JackofAllMinistries]

3 years?! Wow! Quite the time investment! Not surprised though. I planned to knock mine out in a month and it took 5.

[@sickmessiah]

@@JackofAllMinistries I planned on a year. It will be 3 years in April. lol

[@JackofAllMinistries]

@@sickmessiah Hopefully the end is in sight!

[@camorich8826]

Illinois me too💪🏻 looking into a project like this myself

[@JackofAllMinistries]

Sweet! Hope you're enjoying the cold weather these days! I'm totally glad I built mine, one of the best things for me.

[@camorich8826]

@@JackofAllMinistries 😅😅🥶🥶 not really my room has been a challenge trying to figure out how to do it... It's up stairs and kinda octagon shaped with no door on stairs

[@JackofAllMinistries]

@@camorich8826 oh man, that is challenging... I'd love to see what you come up with in the end

[@stephenpostier6456]

When you were planning this, did you consider attaching two pieces of drywall glued together in between the floor joists to the subfloor above?

[@JackofAllMinistries]

I did consider it for a moment, but I was honestly too lazy to make all of those cuts. In hindsight, I wish I would have done a little more but probably not that for two reasons. 1) soundproofing materials generally have exponentially diminishing rates of effectiveness as you add more. The general rule of thumb for drywall is that you cut it in half for every sheet. As in one sheet gives you a 20db reduction, a second sheet gives you 10db, a third gives 5 and so on. For that reason I’d like a different material that works address another set of frequencies. 2) I would like to have used something flexible like MLV so I could attach it without having to be precise or having to seal gaps on the edge.

[@benjiiwoo]

So what did you do to lessen vibrations ? No isolation clips needed ?

[@JackofAllMinistries]

I just screwed it directly to the joist. Isolation clips certainly help, but I'm not convinced they're worth the extra cost (although it seems to me someone sent me a link at some point for some reasonably cheap ones). Screwing directly in reduced the amount of surface area in contact with the drywall by 91% which seemed good to me at the time. Clips take that down to 99%.

[@benjiiwoo]

Thanks seen you covered it on video 2!

[@JackofAllMinistries]

@@benjiiwoo Yep! Sorry I didn't even think about that.