So when I get back east I'm going to be finishing my renovations on my little studio in the woods. It's a large loft of a 2 car garage. It's a barn shaped roof and I have a little bit of height to play with. It's by far a tight building but I'd really like to have good isolation between the live room and control room. I'm going to do a double wall, double window double door between the two rooms. I've been picking up pieces of information here and there on how to go about tackling such a job and I thought I'd post here to see if I can get some more insight.
So like I said I plan on doing a double wall, one is already framed with 2x4 so I'm going to leave that and I'll do the second wall 2x6. Not going to sheath the inside of the the two walls (thanks Matt). How much air space should I have between the two walls?
Doors? Not really sure where to start when it comes to this. Will a regular interior door work as long as it well sealed when its shut and I do a double door, or should I use exterior doors?
Windows- I just learned that they should be different thicknesses. Is there anything else to think about when sealing this. I have a good carpenter working with me so as long as there nothing funny I should keep in mind then I shouldn't have any problems.
Insulation? I assume this product would do the trick.
http://www.kent.ca/kbs/en/product.jsp?p ... talogId=44
Floor.....
This is probably the biggest obstacle to overcome. The floors between the garage and studio aren't insulated. I'm unable to insulate the floor due to how the garage doors are installed. My initial plan was to put down 3/4 rubber matts of the existing floor, frame a 2x4 floor, insulate it, then sheath it in. Someone told me to just put down cement board panel(what goes down before ceramic tile) instead of the rubber then put down whatever floor I wanted to. I feel as if my idea is better. What do you folks think?
I'll try and post some pics of what I have to work with so you get a better idea.
Thanks,
Dylan