bobcatarts
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Due to architectural villainy, my black box has stairs to the second floor offices and support spaces that cut through an upper corner of the main performance space. With effort, smaller groups people can sneak down sufficiently quietly during performances but larger groups or the ignorant/rude go THUMPTHUMPTHUMPing enough to disturb things on stage. Though it was renovated in '07 or '08, I believe it is still the original wooden carriage and carpeted treads making up the stairs, with just drywall boxing around it. It cuts through the space at an angle, and the lower part of it was partitioned off to be a piano/storage closet.
I'm trying to avoid taking the stairs apart or knocking out major section of drywall (IE major renovations) if possible for mostly budget reasons. Am I crazy to want to just bore some holes along the drywall and underside of the stairs to inject a crapton of AB foam (or similar) and fill up the voids? Would that even help at all? Would that create any hazards?
My boss is asking for the "anything you can do without doing anything" solution, and I'm trying to avoid using magic and keep within the laws of physics in this universe.
I'm trying to avoid taking the stairs apart or knocking out major section of drywall (IE major renovations) if possible for mostly budget reasons. Am I crazy to want to just bore some holes along the drywall and underside of the stairs to inject a crapton of AB foam (or similar) and fill up the voids? Would that even help at all? Would that create any hazards?
My boss is asking for the "anything you can do without doing anything" solution, and I'm trying to avoid using magic and keep within the laws of physics in this universe.