John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum

Hey guy's i got a big job ahead of me !!! i'm building 4 seperate rocording studios A,B,C,D in a wharehouse space. My space is 98 x 80 with 30 foot ceilings brick/block walls and a concrete slab. i'm the builder not the designer not sure about the designers layout. thinking on hirering another. i'm floating the floors on rubber.does it help to cut the concrete slab between room and if so does it need to be cut all the way througn to the dirt below ??? then filed with acostic caulk

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Why? Do you have any idea how complex and expensive it is to float floors correctly? And doing it on rubber seems questionable.

You should probably read this, very carefully:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8173

And to find out how to do it right, read this:
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/obj/irc/doc/p ... /ir802.pdf

Floating a floor is much, much harder than it sounds.

It helps yes, if done correctly. But as a builder, you should already know that you can't just cut an existing slab then expect to build a studio on top of the cut part... That would be dangerous, and probably illegal in most countries.

Ummm... yes, but that's not all you need to do!

Ummmm, no, acoustic caulk is not the correct material for filling an expansion gap between pieces of concrete. I though you said you were a builder? I would expect that builders know how to deal with joints in concrete correctly.


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