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Jul 19, 2013 18:24:55 GMT
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Jul 19, 2013 18:33:50 GMT
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It started off as being just for personal use but has now become a second business for my boss while I look after our main business. It's not my money so I have no say in how much things cost. The cables have to be on show as we are now dealers for them. I rarely use the room myself. Most if not all the cables are by Chord and they do make a noticeable difference in quality and performance. The room looks great and I bet it sounds great too, Thanks for posting the pics of the build. I'd love some genuinely brilliant quality gear in a room to make the most of it. I've got some "decent" stuff but it's really let down the speakers being sat on an eggcrate board ikea desk in a breeze block room! Don't keep kidding yourself about the cables though man, they do nothing!
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Jul 19, 2013 18:48:07 GMT
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Meanwhile down in my room I ripped out the ceiling and reinforced it by doubling up the joists so the floor above would be more stable. A doorway was blocked up and a pillar built for an rsj. We slid in into the room through the stairs. And eventually got it against the beams lifting it up bit by bit by hand.
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Jul 19, 2013 19:05:38 GMT
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I did more or less the same in the other room and then cut rockwool to fit between the beams and then put up some plasterboard to make it look pretty. The blocked up door was covered over and the stairs boxed in for a neater finish. That's about where we are at the present with work on the room slowing down considerably over the last two weeks with other things getting in the way but we're in no great rush and will plod along as and when we can.
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You're living the dream, I'd love to have a hi-fi business. I grew up with relative high end stuff (Linn/Meridian/B&W) and once you've heard music on a decent system, it's hard to go back!
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Aug 23, 2013 20:46:33 GMT
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We've done a little more since the last update and now some of the lights are wired in and working. A new breaker board was installed in the roof space above the new room as there's plenty of room up there. We still have to take down the old office and continue on the new room to almost the outer wall of the building.
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Aug 23, 2013 20:59:14 GMT
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The central lights are now up and look pretty funky. Plasterboard has finally started to go up on the walls. Two layers, the joints filled, rubbed down and then a layer of thick lining paper. The double layer floor was screwed down in readiness for the new floating floor to be laid on top of it as the last thing we wanted was a creaking floor. Corner lights wired in to give a nice ambient glow.
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Aug 23, 2013 21:06:30 GMT
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Back to the floating floor. First went down a layer of rubber matting made out of reconstituted car tyres. On top of that went some high density tongue and groove chipboard as was used in the first room we did and we know works. Battens were screwed to the walls as supports for the desk and a couple of shelves that will be made out of counter tops. Stay tuned for more exciting developments in the weeks ahead.
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Aug 26, 2013 11:15:42 GMT
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This is just on another level!
Outstanding!
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Sept 14, 2013 19:01:26 GMT
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This is just on another level! Outstanding! Cheers Mr Speedy, it's coming along quite nicely now. We've managed to do a little more and have added some more traps and cut the work tops ready to be fixed on the walls as a desk and shelf. They are pretty big pieces to work with but appear small once situated in the room. An awful lot of cutting and painting of various sized strips of wood went on to border and finish off around all the traps and built in cork notice boards. It has a certain 60's vibe going on now but I quite like it in a Mondrian sort of way. I may buy my boss a lava lamp for xmas as the psychedelic cherry on the cake. We also bought some office furniture in oak and shoved it under the shelf with a filler piece in the gap between them and the worktop. It looks quite good imho. In the corner where the desk will be my boss sorted out all the wiring inside some impressive looking trunking. I am currently in the middle of taking down the old office and spent Friday removing fibreglass insulation from the roof and packing it into bin bags. If you thought lagging a roof was a messy, sweaty and itchy job un-lagging one is 10 times more miserable, believe me.
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Nov 14, 2013 19:54:28 GMT
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It's been a while but we're still at it. This is the old office which the new room is replacing so the next job was to tear it apart. The entire contents were then put into the new room and filled it up quite nicely. Only the floor to go. Both the old office floor and the floor under it were pulled up as it ran out so much we had to try and rectify it somehow. We screwed down two layers of 22mm flooring staggering the joints as a good base to start from. We then continued the new walls into the new empty space we had created.
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Nov 14, 2013 20:08:56 GMT
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Once the frame work for the walls was up we lifted up the ceiling beams. In case you were wondering there's just the two of us working on this and it's all done by brute force and ignorance. We built a new back wall to give us a square, flat surface to work with. The large rectangular hole is for a future heat exchanger or air-con unit. We're undecided as yet. My boss spent several days adding various layers to the floor to get it as level as possible before laying the floating floor on top of it. The new rear wall then had a frame made against it which was filled with rockwool and a secondary wall built further out once again filled with rockwool. It's coming along nicely and should be finished by xmas...possibly.
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Nov 28, 2013 21:33:40 GMT
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This is the roof of the new room. The beams are 300mm deep and are first filled with a 100mm slab of rockwool and then the remaining gap stuffed with fluffy insulation. Two layers of 18mm plywood are glued down, with acoustic sealant,and screwed down to the beams and each other with overlapping joints fully sealed. Then a coat of bitumen was rollered on and a sheet of 4mm hardboard tacked on top and painted with floor paint. The area with the bin standing on the pieces of wood is where the tin roof leaks and is a future project but for now we trowelled on a thick, gooey layer of water proofing mastic to stop any water getting through to the new ceiling below. The bin will stay there for now as well as since we filled in the access hole we can't get it down even if we wanted to. This is about where the room stands at the moment but there has been a couple of weeks spent on the various cabling for electrics, phones, pc's and music streaming. All far too complicated for me to get my head around I'm afraid. Crazily it is so well insulated that we are having to turn lights off to regulate the room temperature.
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Nov 28, 2013 23:11:25 GMT
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need to install a fan or some kind of sir conditioning unit for the hot days I would assume?, if just normal lights are making it toasty, and with the systems running producing more heat could/will be a bit of a problem? with that much insulation you don't want condensation to occur -but I'm sure youre aware of that (currently studying building services engineering so I know it through and through haha) so cool though bet you can belt out some proper tunes on a proper system without fearing for the neighbours frowning upon you when you see the next
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Mar 20, 2015 18:17:50 GMT
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We did actually complete the room quite a while ago but I had been waiting for my boss to update his thread on an acoustic forum and he never let me know that he had until this week but better very late than never. Slowly taking shape and plenty of wires for all sorts of things. A total of 91 bass traps ended up in this room alone and each one made by hand.
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Mar 20, 2015 18:23:05 GMT
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This is how the room ended up looking. It's quite a nice place for customers to chill of an evening and weekend while listening to whatever music takes their fancy whether it is vinyl, cd or streamed.
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