Concrete Wall Grows Taller
For this new week, we started the task of building the concrete shell that will sound proof our Entertainment Room. The first task was to make a template to help…
Ten Concrete Beams Arrives
Suddenly at a bright early hour, our concrete beams, all ten of them, arrive! We had to parked them on our driveway in such a position so we could then…
Concrete Blocks Arrives
The first load of new building material arrived today. 576 dense concrete blocks arrived with a ton bag of soft sand, eight bags of cement, two large paving slabs and…
Stud Wall Built and Covered in Fermacell Boards
This week, we started on building our timber Stud Wall that surrounds the concrete shell that encloses the Entertainment Room. But before that, we created another piece of equipment down…
Setting out the Entertainment room
For the start of our new week, for the start of the work inside the house, we got on in sorting out the area where the Entertainment Room is situated.…
Concrete Material for Sound-Proofing Shell for Entertainment Room collated and Ordered
After buzzing around several different suppliers, all across the country, looking for pre-stressed concrete beams and dense concrete blocks (the heavier 20kg ones), we chased down various prices, ranging from…
Ordered Concrete Beams and Blocks plus Sand and Cement for Entertainment Room
Today, for our Entertainment Room, we calculated the number of concrete blocks and concrete floor beams needed to build a sound reducing barrier around the walls and ceiling. There are…