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My New Studio Build (perhaps overly detailed)
- Thread starter silky smoove
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My week is basically shot, but I've got a four day weekend coming up so I should conceivably be able to finish the trim by Labor Day.
The bad air quality is starting to subside. The air outside in Seattle is still such that if you're outside for 8 hours it's the equivalent of smoking 3.3 cigarettes. That's way down from the 9 it was at points last week and the week before. I've also got the required torque wrenches from my buddy, so as long as the AQI continues to improve I'll be good to go on HVAC soon. I'm planning on doing it the 8th and 9th of September before I leave for a vacation on the 10th. If I can get everything hooked up mechanically and the building sealed back up I'll be happy. Electrical and final mechanical will have to wait for contractors. Baffle boxes for the HRV are still a possibility, but they won't happen until after everything is operational and the interior is finished. I don't want to build them if they're not needed for adequate isolation. If the HRV proves to be a weak link in the isolation perimeter I'll build them after the fact.
The bad air quality is starting to subside. The air outside in Seattle is still such that if you're outside for 8 hours it's the equivalent of smoking 3.3 cigarettes. That's way down from the 9 it was at points last week and the week before. I've also got the required torque wrenches from my buddy, so as long as the AQI continues to improve I'll be good to go on HVAC soon. I'm planning on doing it the 8th and 9th of September before I leave for a vacation on the 10th. If I can get everything hooked up mechanically and the building sealed back up I'll be happy. Electrical and final mechanical will have to wait for contractors. Baffle boxes for the HRV are still a possibility, but they won't happen until after everything is operational and the interior is finished. I don't want to build them if they're not needed for adequate isolation. If the HRV proves to be a weak link in the isolation perimeter I'll build them after the fact.
Look like fun....I just retired from the commercial door business. Unpacked many doors like that!
Does the laminate flooring require any underlayment for air flow, moisture seal, or any other reason?
Is an acoustic foam pad under the flooring required to provide additional isolation?
Is an acoustic foam pad under the flooring required to provide additional isolation?
It doesn’t technically require it, but it’s advised. I’ll be installing 7mm floor muffler. It’s a well regarded product that adds some cushioning “softness” to the feel of hard flooring on a solid (ie no crawlspace or basement) foundation. It also provides all the needed moisture barrier, although my construction methods already keep it out.
Underlayment only provides isolation from flanking paths and footfalls if there’s an occupied space below the floor (ie one floor above another). Since mine is atop a steel floor joist foundation filled with Roxul, several feet of compacted crushed rock and then earth it won’t provide any additional isolation.
Main room trim is flying. It looks a little stark without anything on the walls, but once the treatments and guitars are up it will add a nice bright accent to lighten up the feel of the room. Tomorrow I’ll do the angled north and south wall sections that lead up to the peak of the vault.
First of the four vault trim sections is done. You can see on the left side (northwest corner of the structure) where the truss web wasn’t perfectly planar with the rest of the structure. I realized it while building the middle leaf of the ceiling. I realized it again while I was hanging drywall ledgers. I realized it yet again when placing hat channel. I realized it a fourth time when I was building the inner leaf. Each time it got less out of plane, and I was hoping by the time I got here it would be close enough to be invisible. No such luck. A little foam backer rod and a generous application of caulk will make it invisible to everyone but me once it’s all said and done. Good enough to call it a victory as far as I’m concerned 
I was going to work yesterday and take today off, but my laziness won out yesterday, so today is a make-up day.
This is the stink face you make after you forget to reset the miter angle and blow it on the last remaining board for the last remaining trim piece to be installed in the vestibule and have to run down to Home Depot to buy one more board and a backup board just in case you’re an idiot a second time.
Good thing I bought that spare board. As soon as I got back from Home Depot I promptly made the 17D miter cut for the wall, and then a 17D miter cut for the vault. The vault’s miter cut should be 13.5D. 
Oh well. Had a spare. Vestibule is done. With that all of the ceiling trim is installed. After the PL Premium adhesive sets I’ll use a nail set to drive the heads of the nails below the surface of the trim boards, backfill the holes with bondo, and then touch them up with a Q-tip and some white semi-gloss. After that it’s backer rod, caulk and any other white touch-up areas to wrap up this task.
Oh well. Had a spare. Vestibule is done. With that all of the ceiling trim is installed. After the PL Premium adhesive sets I’ll use a nail set to drive the heads of the nails below the surface of the trim boards, backfill the holes with bondo, and then touch them up with a Q-tip and some white semi-gloss. After that it’s backer rod, caulk and any other white touch-up areas to wrap up this task.
