So my wife and I will be building a new house soon, and I've been spending a whole lot more time on these forums over the past weeks than I should have.
I should totally be doing homework right now or getting ready for work. Anyway... so we don't have any official plans yet, as we'll be making a ton of changes to a pre-made plan to make it our own once we get the plot. I know, it seems like it's a long ways away, but I've got to be thinking about how high I'll need the ceiling, and the different soundproofing methods and how many rows, risers and seats. I also want to have a bar at the back. Also, within reason, cost isn't an issue.
So my first questions are about soundproofing. I've been all over this forum, as well as Soundproofingcompany.com, and others. I've read all the articles, and spent way too many hours absorbed into forum posts, and I haven't found a definitive answer to what I'm looking for. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just that I haven't found it yet.
1. Up to 3 walls will be foundation concrete walls (most likely 3). I've read that because the forms are a little bit away from the concrete, I won't need to worry about decoupling, as it's already basically done. Is that right?
2. With decoupled walls, do I still use hat tracks, or is a hat track just another way to decouple where building a second wall isn't an option? Also, is using a double stud just another replacement for decoupling or hat tracks?
3. If I were to use all of these following methods, would it be too much, create a triple leaf effect, are some of them just different ways to do the other, or would it be just right, especially for foundation walls? Decoupling, double stud, hat tracks, double 5/8" green glued drywall (just regular, from what I've seen and read, the quietrock doesn't do too much).
4. With us being so tall, and with me wanting at least two different risers, main level with first row of seats, first riser with second row of seats, and second riser with bar and minifridge, I'm thinking that the 8' that our building ususally makes the basement ceilings isn't going to be enough. I've looked at the riser height calculator and it seems like I'm going to need like 10' ceilings!
5. I'm thinking I want a soffit, because I'd like to have Jeff at NightSkyMurals do our ceiling eventually. The reason I'd want a soffit is so that I could eventually hide some blacklights that point at the ceiling to illuminate his work. This also complicates #4.
Lots to think about, and I don't think our subcontractor knows very much about what I was asking. My wife thinks he does, and that I was using different words than he's familiar with, because when I said I wanted decoupled walls, he later started tellign me about how you can build a room within a room. I trust him, I just want to know exactly what I want before he starts trying to lead me in any particualr direction.
So my wife and I will be building a new house soon, and I've been spending a whole lot more time on these forums over the past weeks than I should have.
So my first questions are about soundproofing. I've been all over this forum, as well as Soundproofingcompany.com, and others. I've read all the articles, and spent way too many hours absorbed into forum posts, and I haven't found a definitive answer to what I'm looking for. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just that I haven't found it yet.
1. Up to 3 walls will be foundation concrete walls (most likely 3). I've read that because the forms are a little bit away from the concrete, I won't need to worry about decoupling, as it's already basically done. Is that right?
2. With decoupled walls, do I still use hat tracks, or is a hat track just another way to decouple where building a second wall isn't an option? Also, is using a double stud just another replacement for decoupling or hat tracks?
3. If I were to use all of these following methods, would it be too much, create a triple leaf effect, are some of them just different ways to do the other, or would it be just right, especially for foundation walls? Decoupling, double stud, hat tracks, double 5/8" green glued drywall (just regular, from what I've seen and read, the quietrock doesn't do too much).
4. With us being so tall, and with me wanting at least two different risers, main level with first row of seats, first riser with second row of seats, and second riser with bar and minifridge, I'm thinking that the 8' that our building ususally makes the basement ceilings isn't going to be enough. I've looked at the riser height calculator and it seems like I'm going to need like 10' ceilings!
5. I'm thinking I want a soffit, because I'd like to have Jeff at NightSkyMurals do our ceiling eventually. The reason I'd want a soffit is so that I could eventually hide some blacklights that point at the ceiling to illuminate his work. This also complicates #4.
Lots to think about, and I don't think our subcontractor knows very much about what I was asking. My wife thinks he does, and that I was using different words than he's familiar with, because when I said I wanted decoupled walls, he later started tellign me about how you can build a room within a room. I trust him, I just want to know exactly what I want before he starts trying to lead me in any particualr direction.