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I have quite a large garage that I have always wanted to convert to an additional rtoom. That can wait though as know if would take a lot of work and building regs would apply.
In the mean time, I want to plaster the pig bricks, paint and maybe put a studwall up to divide the room as a band room and utility room.
Is it as simple as doing the work, or do building regs apply?
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is it part of the house? I converted an integral one
Have you seen Esmono rooms btw? A used one of these can be great if you want to keep your neighbours happy
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just leave enough room for the fridge, sofa, and TV.
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most modern construction will be pitiful for sound insulation.
My loud room has thick 2 skin old brick walls, double glazing and then secondary glazing
This works well - you can just hear loud stuff when outdoors, but you have to remember sound escaping through doors, air vents, through the ceiling, etc
Ultimate trick is Esmono rooms, £5k + second hand
Just thought what do you want in the room? Toilet, kitchen or just a room?
MASSIVE +1 !
Do not under any circumstance mention 'Music Room', 'Film Room', 'Special sound proof orgy room'. Nothing that infers sound. My mate built a small cinema room in his house, the guy who drew up the plans and submitted them to the council left the words 'music room' on the drawings. The resulting hassle and cost building regs have put him through is akin to an EU directive for square apples.
I have spent some time looking into the options available in order to create a usable soundproofed room without going too far over the top. The difficulty most people face is......how far do I go? If you speak to specialist suppliers and some of the companies that install studios it can kill the concept dead due, in the main, to the complexity of creating a tomb-like environment that has to be ventilated and which will cost over £10,000 on the soundproofing products alone. Most of us don't need this!! Unless of course you're a drummer and then you have to go that extra mile.
My main concern was finding a compromise between loss of physical space due to the depth of stud walls/resiliant bars/ soundproofing products and having enough space to work whilst at the same time having a reasonably well soundproofed space. The garage we have is not massive and if we had gone with the optimum in terms of proofing walls it would have been like a corridor.
First of all, in 99% of cases you don't need planning permission but you do need to involve building control. This ISN'T a big deal. You pay a fee and that's that. They inspect the build at intervals and as long as you are doing it properly, and there's no point in not doing it properly, then they won't give you any hassle.
The external walls of the garage are cavity with heavy thermal blocks on the inside/space/bricks. Internal walls are thermal blocks.
We're going for a screed floor rather than a suspended floor......much, MUCH better option. The floor will then need some matting prior to installing floor coverings. Consider underfloor heating as you don't want rads in the room.
Up and over door will go and in it's place a brick/thermal block wall with outer triple glazed window and inner double glazed with about a 6-8" gap between the two.
Ceiling is currently plaster-boarded - this will come down and resiliant bars will be fitted to joists. Plasterboard (2 x 15mm acoustic plasterboard with green glue/acoustic matting between) will then fix to the resiliant bars with insulation behind. Ceilings are a major issue.
Walls will be stud and 100mm each side....these will sit on neoprene strips so no part of the stud is in contact with existing walls or floor. This dramatically reduces sound transfer.
We will use 2 x 15mm sheets of acoustic plasterboard on the walls with either green glue or acoustic matting sandwiched between.....haven't decided yet. Good quality insulation will fill the gap between stud and existing walls.
Door into house will go and frame will be fitted with rubber seals and, to save money, a fire door will be installed instead of a 'studio door'.
We already have electric in the room and a fuse box so that helps a lot.
That is an incredibly simplistic overview but I wanted to make it clear that the process is easy, hassle-free and as long as your expectations aren't too high....i.e. zero sound-spill..... it IS worth doing. I reckon cost will be in the region of £7000-£8000 using a builder and worth every penny.
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I converted my last garage - very cheaply, the house still allowed too much noise out for the neighbours
If you move house you will of course lose your investment, whereas a garage-sized Esmono room would cost about the same, and could be moved to your next house
http://www.studiospares.com/isolation-booths/esmono-4x37x2metre-high-room/invt/411540
http://www.esmono.co.uk/
used Esmono rooms come up around half price every month or 2
I agree with @ToneControl too.......it's a hell of a lot of cash to chuck at it and then find you're not reducing sound leakage enough. That's one of the reasons I haven't pressed the button yet. Unfortunately the only way you're going to now if your spec is man enough is to spend the money and do the work but................?!!
Maybe the solution is to start sticking dig shit through my neighbour's letter box............?
The esmono units do look like an excellent idea too.....I'm going to seriously look into that. As @ToneControl wisely says, they can be moved when you next up sticks. Masses of food for thought!