I’ll say one thing for my contractor Joe McCabe, the man wastes no time at all. Barely is the outside shell completed than his team is inside marking the floors and starting the framing. This was kind of neat for me, I’ve never been a part of a ground up construction before. On Monday, Joe asked me to come by while they marked up the floor.
MONDAY AUGUST 30
The construction crew runs chalk lines all along the concrete slab to mark the wall locations and being there gave me the chance to visually see for the first time what the walls look like laid out in the building. Here they are marking the unfinished open space, about 1400 square feet of space we can use for a variety of things include an insert stage.
Joe squaring up the VO Booth that sits right behind the Machine Room and beyond that is the Screening Room. Yep, in these days of computers, iPhones, laser tools and the like, a good metal square with a good set of eyes is all you need to square up a room.
Marking up Edits 5 – 8. We did move some walls around a little to give more room for the edit suites and also widened up the front hallway a little. I hate tight narrow hallways, need some extra room there.
I’m standing in Edit Suite 2 looking down at Edits 3 and 4. You can see the chalk lines going down the floor marking the hallway and the walls for all the rooms.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31
We have walls! Along the right side are Edits 5 – 8. In the back there you can see the outer wall of the Screening Room.
A closer look at Edits 5 – 8. Each room has a double wall between them with a 1″ air gap between the walls. We’re doing this to help prevent sound transfer between the rooms. Ideally a 4″ air gap is what you really want, but we’re trying to conserve some space in the building. We’ll also be running special accoustical drywall in between the rooms that really help cut down on sound transfer.
Joe’s team framing up Edits 1 and 2 with the Screening Room in the foreground.
John Demonstrating the 1″ air gap with his hand between the walls.
It’s so neat to finally be able to stop just visualizing the place and actually see walls and hallways taking shape. We’re very VERY thankful to be able to do this particularly in today’s economy!
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