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When I installed my Window and door in my garage I measured to 6mm as the biggest gap and worked the brickwork out where needed. Then the sills of the window and door threshold were filled with sand (sound and heat goes straight through hollow plastic. All gaps are then filled with acoustic grade fire caulking.
All sockets should be surface mounted, not cut into the plasterboard. Again heat and sound will go straight through hollow plastic. Ceiling lights the same, don't cut into the plasterboard.
Plasterboard should be measured to be a good fit within 3mm or so and any gaps filled completely with easy fill .. then lay another layer so the joints stagger and don't land in the same place. Caulk out and tape the joins
When it's done right it's quite eerie because you enter the room and you can't hear anything going on anymore. Also you don't see any insects because there just isn't any gaps.
Just thinking should I do one area at a time (i.e the walls first) it should improve the heat loss at first then move onto the ceiling and lastly the floor or just do it all at once at labour charges are expensive. Probably want to the same people to do it cos of guarantees?
Approx 60% of heat loss is to ground
Trust me ...I'm a building Surveyor and building technologist
Portioning the room won't necessarily be cheaper either as we will still need to do the stud wall and clad both sides. New door, and probably a second electric ring. So whilst I might have to redo just 2 brick walls I don't think it'll save me any money.
And they simply just screwed the plasterboard straight over, no dot n dab. So the original system is wrong to start with.
Just need the right balance to keep the room warm and not over suffocate it so it can breathe.
I should have a first quote coming through this or next week.
I've done 2 garage studios and a 4200 sqf proffessional recording studio mate ... Celotex is no good for this purpose, doesn't have the mass. First thing we did when building 2020 studios was gut the unit throw all the Celotex away.
Rockwool has ok thermal but very good noise insulation due to its mass. Cellotex is basically aluminium foil lined foam, so good heat insulation but not much noise absorption capability.
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Like I mentioned above more concerned about heat loss. There’s far too much of a temperature drop once the heating has been turned off.
Unfortunately most builders don't consider this and that's why a lot of peoples man caves perform so poorly in these respects.
I'm also wondering about the air gap, on the ceiling a bloke who came round to measure up and give me a quote said 50mm on ceiling. Didn't say anything walls. 50mm as well?
How can I get around this without having to recut the opening for the door entry?