Music room renovation

robwright · September 2020

I want that one!

What do you reckon you have spent on materials?

Adji · September 2020

Nice man, be interesting to find out the difference the rockwool in the floor and the rubber slabs have made as its something I've considered my self.

Great work so far!

WiresDreamDisasters · September 2020

robwright said:

I want that one!

What do you reckon you have spent on materials?

I dread to think!

Certainly over £1000 on it so far. The floor would've been the bulk of that. If we're including tools and stuff that I'm gonna use on the rest of the house, then probably closer to £1500, maybe a tad more.

WiresDreamDisasters · September 2020

Adji said:

Nice man, be interesting to find out the difference the rockwool in the floor and the rubber slabs have made as its something I've considered my self.

Great work so far!

The floor feels really solid, you can feel there is mass under it, if that makes sense. It's definitely made a big improvement to impact noise, but I don't know about airborne noise yet until I get it all set up.

Here is the datasheet for the Acoustilay 15 panels:
https://www.soundreduction.co.uk/content/files/srs_acoustilay_data_sheet.pdf

Keefy · September 2020

WiresDreamDisasters said:

robwright said:

I want that one!

What do you reckon you have spent on materials?

I dread to think!

Certainly over £1000 on it so far. The floor would've been the bulk of that. If we're including tools and stuff that I'm gonna use on the rest of the house, then probably closer to £1500, maybe a tad more.

Money spent on decent tools is never wasted.

WiresDreamDisasters · September 2020

Agreed, and there is a lot of stuff to do on the rest of the house too! Gonna turn the attic into a storage hole as well, so it'll all come in handy.

PolarityMan · September 2020

Gonna look boss when tis done for sure!

WiresDreamDisasters · September 2020

Don't know what colour to make me walls. What would go nice with red panels?

PolarityMan · September 2020

I made mine white so anything you put ont hem defines the room....I put a chonging great zodiac mural on mine.

octatonic · September 2020

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Don't know what colour to make me walls. What would go nice with red panels?

Two tones of grey:

Image: http://www.bluefrogaudio.co.uk/wpimages/wp47706d16_05_06.jpg

Kebabkid · September 2020

Although I haven't got any red showing here in the pic of mine when first done, I agree with James that 2 tones of grey would work well.

WiresDreamDisasters · September 2020

@Kebabkid ;
When I saw your shots I was like "I wanna do THAT!"

I'm thinking a dark grey with my red panels, and I'm thinking of having stenciled images across the front of the panels. Some cool Japanese samurai movies or something.

Moominpapa · September 2020

@WiresDreamDisasters Are you going to do anything special with the window, or are you not too bothered about sound getting out that way?

WiresDreamDisasters · September 2020

Moominpapa said:

@WiresDreamDisasters Are you going to do anything special with the window, or are you not too bothered about sound getting out that way?

Actually not that bothered. I'm using it as a way to let low-end out of the room.

digitalkettle · September 2020

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Moominpapa said:

@WiresDreamDisasters Are you going to do anything special with the window, or are you not too bothered about sound getting out that way?

Actually not that bothered. I'm using it as a way to let low-end out of the room.

Nah...just get an air freshener

WiresDreamDisasters · September 2020

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And there's paint going on the walls!

fretmeister · September 2020

Great job.

I’d love to do that.

WiresDreamDisasters · September 2020

Just cut in for the ceiling. Cleaned up some nasty spots. Couldn't be arsed to start the first main roll though!

And I'm getting itchy trigger fingers for a new computer ... mmmmmmmmmm

duotone · September 2020

Looking good! I really like the contrasting wall colours.

WiresDreamDisasters · September 2020

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Sorted the ceiling out. Got a few bits across the top of the walls to patch up, but we're basically done. I'm loving these colours!

Ordered skirting boards. Should arrive by the weekend I hope. If not, then next week. Think I'm gonna try kerf cuts for the rounded bit of the bay window. Cut across the front of the board so I can bend it inwards, then fill in the gaps with filler, and paint. We shall see.

After that it's picking the positions for my acoustic panels, putting battens up for those, and being a bit more methodical about it than I was in the flat, coz I want them straight on the walls and with a bit of a gap!

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