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Congrats on the trip and the funding!
Maybe when they get back they'll find that you've constructed a studio for them down there. How convenient!
Maybe when they get back they'll find that you've constructed a studio for them down there. How convenient!
When we were buying our current house I looked at a few places with large finished basements as potential studio space. The problem with them in the Seattle area is that most basements we saw tended to only be about 7' high, or in some cases even less. I'm very tall at 6'-6", so it was immediately evident how a pair of overheads would be negatively impacted by ceiling reflections when mic'ing up a drum kit.
Incredible. Not at all what we were expecting, and I say that in a good way. The people were very nice, albeit quite stoic as I've heard is common among Scandinavian countries. The food was quite possibly the best food I've ever had in my entire life. They have almost no imports of fresh food into the country so if you're eating fish or lamb (those two comprise most of the diet) it was practically guaranteed to be fresh. We stayed two nights on a working farm in a guesthouse and were treated to food that was raised, slaughtered, prepared and served all within a few kilometer radius. We ate raw smoked lamb one night and it was mind blowing. The scenery was astonighly beautiful. Even the places that were desolate and barren (think Hawaiian lava fields covered in gray/green moss and an ambient temperature of 55-degrees farenheit) there was a strange beauty to it all. Communicating and driving was a piece of cake. The flight was long and boring, but at least it was direct. We'll definitely be back, but we won't likely do the entire ring road again. Instead we'll hang out in our 2-3 favorite places for multiple nights each. Totally worthwhile. Ungodly expensive, but still totally worthwhile.
Absolutely. It's a topic I've spent much time considering.
It's adjacent to an alley that three houses use for access, two of which will drive the full length of the studio before turning into their driveway/garage. Garbage and recycling trucks use the alley as well, but fortunately they come on Tuesday mornings when I'm almost always at my office and never working in the studio. Other than that it's quite quiet. So the noise is intermittent, but when it occurs it's substantial. Potentially take-ruiningly substantial. In that regard, sound isolation is VERY important.
It's not too big of a concern as I'm friends with all of my neighbors and they know what I'm building. That said, the neighbor closest to the studio is a crotchety old man in his mid-80s who's the most hateful, racist, mysoginistic, xenophobic, bigoted awful creature I think I've ever met. His mental health is breaking down, which is quite sad to see, but I can't say that I'll miss the seemingly endless tirades of him standing in his front yard and screaming "god damnit!" on an endless loop for (seriously) 20-minutes at a time or until someone calls the cops on him. It's a really bizarre situation. Still for whatever reason, he's decided that I'm one of the few people on the planet that he likes. Still, I don't want him to get irritated by the sound and make living next to him even more "interesting" than it already is. So again, sound isolation is a big deal here.
Nope. It's a fixed installation. People do move houses from time to time, but I think that comes with having more money than sense in a lot of cases.
Therein lies one of the rubs. If I do the Whisper Clips and hat channel the treatments would absolutely be portable. In fact, I would likely take them down, say "screw the sound isolation" and cut in a couple windows to make it more appealing as a general artist's studio space, man cave, she shed, etc. If I do the John Sayers inside-out wall design the treatments become part of the wall. It's a more elegant AND effective solution, however the end result is something that I would have to practically destroy in order to disassemble and any salvaged materials would just be raw building materials, not neatly packaged acoustic treatments.
I don't think sound isolation will add anything to resale value. It's far too specific. I'd just cut in some windows and call it a life.
Indeed. That's the way it goes with studio building. Actually... Talking through those points above have me leaning towards clips despite the decreased isolation potential and VERY slight loss of floor space as a result. I know we won't stay in this house forever, so I might as well plan for the future. We'll see... My mood changes like the weather in Iceland
It also grows caveats, risks and consternation, haha. It's a very complex tree.dude great news man!!! glad you found that tree that grows money
We have lots of basements here in Seattle as well, but they're commonly not full height. Typically around 7' from concrete floor to bottom of joists is about all you can hope for in a lot of older homes. We toured one home where the master bedroom, living room, a guest bedroom, and a bathroom were all downstairs. The ceiling was so low that anywhere I encountered a smoke detector I had to veer out of the way. I'm a tall guy at 6'-6", but that was ridiculous.
It's not a term specific to electrical work. Putting on my civil engineer hat for a second: Any buried pipe will have a cover specification that accounts for region-specific freezing requirements for pipes carrying liquid (not applicable here), and enough separation between surfaces weighted by vehicle or equipment traffic to keep the pipe from being crushed (also not applicable here). Since neither situation is applicable here, and it's a scenario where even direct-bury wire would have been acceptable I'm hoping the electrical inspector is reasonable.
I'm only restricted at two points measuring about 6" parallel to the pipe trench. Building up won't help me in this case since what would be required would be 6" of added elevation. That would completely screw up the parking pad next to my house as well as the interface with the stairs up to the back door.
It won't be, because nothing will be changed with how the stairs interface with the ground elevation.
Digging deeper won't help unless we're talking about going so deep that I could tunnel underneath the pieces of concrete. The depth of said concrete is unknown, and I'm not really into spelunking
I refer you back to post #10 of this thread, way back on page #1. Not interested in going back down that particular rabbit hole if it can be avoided. If I have to I will, but I'm hoping for a reasonable inspector.
The car I was driving at the time couldn't accommodate the full 10' lengths of pipe, so I cut them in half and grabbed a handful of unions. A simple coupling would have sufficed, but they were out of them in the 1 1/4" size.
