Part 4 of this series involves everything wall related. We bolted all the framing into the floor and existing walls, finished insulating and layering all the walls and ceiling (filled every crack and crevice), installed all the interior OSB board, and began the stages of drywall instillation.
100% of the drywall used in this project was reused - donated from a HUGE indoor warehouse cannabis grow that had to shut down. Making use of that potent Portland local Offerup/Craigslist community once again, a phenomenal access point for reusing/repurposing. An @ELAmental vocal booth for conscious hip hop would not have been complete without the implementation of some #EarthDeeds.
Digging through these mountains of discarded drywall was kind of insane - retrieving all of it, awkwardly loading in my truck that has a topper and roll bar, and driving it to the studio with my tailgate down in the midst of a crazy rainstorm.... well let's just say it was 1,000+ times easier to write that than it was to live it - nuts.
I would have preferred to have purchased the gypsum-sheetrock new and repurposed the 2x4's for the framing instead, but as those who repurpose for construction often well know, the timing does not always line up with your preference for donations when your facing a deadline. All the damaged drywall made quite a mess and also made the task of fitting them extremely challenging and time consuming, leaving my hands callused from pushing on the top end of a razor knife too frequently. I did end up scoring some used 2x4's from the same warehouse which I ended up utilizing for the acoustic panels we eventually built (more on that later).
I never use adhesive in any of my creative projects (although I will be forced to when the Auralex foam arrives for the ceiling/door), but I decided to try per the influence of the example blueprints I discovered in my research… it did not work AT ALL for attaching the soundproof layers together. Never again - I spent quite a long time scraping the non-stick "adhesive" off the OSB as shown in the video.
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