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My New Studio Build (perhaps overly detailed)
- Thread starter silky smoove
- Start date
I’ve done a ton of wrenching on cars in my lifetime.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is when to put down the tools and walk away. Clear your head and approach the job with a fresh perspective. I feel your pain. I’ve been know to throw a tool or two.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is when to put down the tools and walk away. Clear your head and approach the job with a fresh perspective. I feel your pain. I’ve been know to throw a tool or two.
No need. These don’t provide any isolation, just absorption and diffusion. Some traps actually work better if they can vibrate a little as it lowers the absorption frequency potential.
Good advice. Despite my emoji tirade I wasn’t actually mad or upset. It was just, as I put it, a comedy of errors. My final approach to the whole thing appears to be working very well.
Get it together toggle bolt manufacturers! 
They shorted me by one bolt, and gave me an extra head (this was after I lost one inside the wall after cross-threading it).
They shorted me by one bolt, and gave me an extra head (this was after I lost one inside the wall after cross-threading it).
Well, that’s all for today. Tomorrow I’m going to mount the sawtooth hangers on the five panels I can hang and get them installed. Depending on how long that takes I might run down to the next closest hardware store (9 miles away) and grab more toggle bolts so I can keep going.
I’d be knee deep in tacos and beer at this point. I hate those 1hr jobs that take 9hrs...
This sounds like just about every single DIY job I’ve ever attempted. Right down to the multiple trips to the hardware store for no good reason.Today was an absolute comedy of errors. I worked from 9am until 4pm and didn’t hang a single panel. Not one.
I emptied out the main room and took all of the cardboard from the treatments down to the transfer station to be recycled. On my way home I stopped at Home Depot to grab some toggle bolts for hanging the treatments.
I get home and realize that I don’t have the correct bit (3/8”) to drill a hole in the drywall for the toggle bolts. I head back to Home Depot and pick one up.
I get home once again and notice that the manufacturer’s recommended bit size for the pilot hole in the drywall is larger than the diameter of the bolt head. This isn’t a big deal if you’re going through a piece of material, but since I’m just using these as posts with a spacer to give the sawtooth hangers on the back of the panels something to grab onto, this won’t work.
I return to Home Depot once again and get some washers with a 1/8” hole and a 1” outer diameter. This will allow the toggle bolt to tighten up to the wall without cracking the drywall. I also get some clear sealant to put behind the washer to seal up the pilot hole and not compromise my sound isolation.
I get home and the real fun begins. Here’s the basic assembly of what I put together:
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There are a couple of problems here. The first is that I didn’t factor in the size of the teeth in the sawtooth and the fact that they won’t fit over a 1” OD washer. The second is this:View attachment 3273039
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Looks great right? ...WRONG!!!
Here’s the problem:
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The bolt is long enough to get through, but not long enough to allow the head to open when it goes through the wall.
A longer bolt is the obvious solution, but remember that you can’t allow anything to touch the studs behind the drywall or it short circuits the isolation assembly. The space from the face of the studs to the back of the drywall is 1 3/4”. Two layers of 5/8” drywall is 1 1/4” thick.
1 3/4” + 1 1/2” = 3”
The next size up for bolt length is 3”...
My solution is use some smaller washers sandwiched between two larger washers. This will stand the bolt off a bit, keep it from touching a stud, and will leave a gap for the sawtooth hangers to sit in.
I head back to Home Depot for the FOURTH TIME TODAY. I get there and find that they only have 12 of the 1/8” x 3” toggle bolts in-stock. Fine... Screw it... I buy what they have, check online, see that store near my office has more in-stock and vow to pick them up next week. At the rate I’m going there’s no way I’ll be done tomorrow anyway, so no harm no foul. I also grab the smaller washers to use as spacers.
This is the resultant assembly:
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It works perfectly and there’s 1/8” of clearance from any studs that might find their way into my drilling location. Winner winner chicken dinner.
...Until I forgot to take the hat channel placement into consideration when I drilled my first hole in the wall. I clanged into the upper flange of a piece of hat channel. The toggle bolt won’t fit in that location, nor will any of them fit along the chalk line that my wife and I snapped. It’s an easy fix (patch the hole, then snap a new line about an inch higher), but after working all day to accomplish nothing I decided to throw in the towel and try again tomorrow.
What a day.
Hang in there!
First panel is airborne. My bolt and washers system worked great. It feels rock solid.
North wall is done... and so am I... for the day.
