Over the last 10 days or so the ceilings and joists have been removed to create a large amount of space, over the last couple of days the footings have been built to provide footings for what will be the acoustic barrier wall..... Because of the fact that there are a couple of houses within 100 yards of the studio we have over engineered the sound isolation on the live room, providing a full height block work wall inside the existing structure, within this block wall will be constructed a timber frame acoustic wall thus providing even more isolation of the live room. This live room will have two suspended acoustic barrier ceilings above it so will be pretty much silent to the outside world.
In terms of the internal construction we decided a few weeks ago to give the work to Studio People. We figured that the acoustic treatment and construction of some of the specialist aspects (air con 'plenums', drop ceilings etc) would be better carried out by the guys who designed the studio in the first place. It's going to look great when it's finished.
Pretty excited about the whole thing now, it's been a hard slog as we've been living in the house for 6 weeks or so with no heating or hot water.... You can imagine how cold that was when we had the snow a few weeks ago, a period of time within which we had no internal doors for two weeks, and half the house exposed to the weather. We had to go to Spain to get some warmth, seriously.
But now things are coming along nicely. The main house is unfolding and we can almost call it comfortable. We're currently busy making sure that the 2 bedroom accommodation for studio clients is ready for the arrival of Bongripper this weekend, we (Conan) are touring with these fellers and Humanfly from Leeds soon. The studio accommodation is now plastered, painted, carpeted, beds are getting made up tomorrow, windows are in, the kitchen and bathroom tiling is being sorted tomorrow and the flooring in the lounge there is on the way tomorrow too. This has been a huge job, but we;re plugging away with the help of our builders who have been great.
Concrete is being poured tomorrow and brickwork is starting next week.
Anyway, here are some pics.......
