A hurdle we knew we would have to face eventually has temporarily halted the work on the studio sub-floor. What can only be described as a large metal table is getting in the way of our timber work and needs to be chopped down. We are cutting the table at the bottom of the cylinder so we can put our sub-floor joist-work over the top of it. The metal is almost an inch thick around the perimeter of the cylinder and it took nearly an hour with an angle grinder to get through.

This week deliveries from 3 different suppliers came with the rest of the materials for the studio floor. Remember, we can't build directly onto the concrete so there is loads of work to do building in a sub-floor. We're squashed for workspace so we're prioritising the construction of the live room floor first, when that's done we can use that floor for extra workspace. The materials we are using: 4x2 Timber carcassing Adhesive high-density foam rubber isolation tape Fo

After quotes, consultancy, research, prep-work, designs, re-designs, revisions of re-designs, and more quotes, we're finally ready to start building! The first order of wood was made last week and we finally got down-and-dirty with the building work. First on the list is to construct a timber subfloor that raises the studio floor off the concrete floor. The two main reasons for doing this is that the concrete floor is very uneven meaning that laying the studio floor directl