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I have done a really quick drawing to show the proposal. What do you think?

thanks sammy.

Hi guys,

Any comments on last couple of posts?

Thanks,

sammy

Hey Sammy, thanks for updating your profile, even tho your screen name helped -

"Soundproofing on a budget" would be as short a book as "Poland's Who's Who" and "Italian War Heroes", "Honest Politics for Caring Politicians", etc - although your basic concept is good as far as mass-air-mass, having only one layer of MDF at each location will mean pretty minimal isolation; especially since your corrugated roof metal will weaken that section (isolation-wise) at lower frequencies. I'm not sure how to calculate just how MUCH it will hurt isolation, only that it WILL.

Putting narrow battens over the joints would help a bit, but they would need to be totally glued as well as screwed in place; standard practice for gypsum multilayer walls is no less than 1 foot of offset each way for all joins between wallboards.

I'm about to crash and burn (up since 2pm yesterday, it's 8AM here now ) So if you have any ideas for increasing mass without increasing cost, I'd like to hear them... Steve