We are converting an attached single skin garage. The separate stud walls are to be built with air gap/insulation/soundbloc plasterboard etc to make a room within a room. The room will be used as a music room/home cinema/studio etc.
Our investigations show the concrete slab is nice & thick & has damp layer under it. The building reg has asked for a course of bricks under all stud walls with a dpm laid on the floor & lapped over the bricks & then build the stud wall on the brick layer. Is there a way around that? The builder thinks we should be able to lay dpm on floor, then build stud walls directly off the concrete floor.
I would like to avoid the BR solution as this will kill our sound isolation plan for the room. I would appreciate any tips & advice please
Cheers
Fib
Our investigations show the concrete slab is nice & thick & has damp layer under it. The building reg has asked for a course of bricks under all stud walls with a dpm laid on the floor & lapped over the bricks & then build the stud wall on the brick layer. Is there a way around that? The builder thinks we should be able to lay dpm on floor, then build stud walls directly off the concrete floor.
I would like to avoid the BR solution as this will kill our sound isolation plan for the room. I would appreciate any tips & advice please
Cheers
Fib