Recent content by goshen28

Thanks for all the feedback. After poking around, and leveraging some of the ideas in the thread, I've planning on the flooring to consist of 1/2" soundboard, 1/2" OSB and 3/4" plyron which will be finished by painting it black. This is to minimize noise and resonance and still provide a clean...

In an effort of hitting my 16" height target, and also to facilitate compartmentalizing sections <100 sq ft, I'm thinking I can build my "walls" the joists will sit on with a 2x4 bottom plate, a 2x4 on its side for wall height and then the 2x4 top plate (see pic). Still debating whether the top...

Thanks for the great advice, Bill. It was just what I needed.

We have to replace a stage in our room. Currently we are using 4x8 temp staging bolted together into a stage 24 wide and between 8 and 16 feet deep. The stage has become squeaky and noisy, plus with acoustic drums and electric bass on it, it is really a boomy drumhead.We are going to replace...