taking things apart

Neighbor on the other side of my studio area’s party wall had a cold last week. I would not know this, but for the lack of isolation between our units. With this in mind, Blackmer suggested I open up the walls enough to have a look inside for acoustic paths. We suspected that the partition between units doesn’t extend past the corner, through the perpendicular wall, to the exterior rigid insulation- leaving a large flanking void to compromise any other attenuation efforts. I opened a 2″x3″ hole, and found a loose stud. Just hanging there.

Add that to the mistake they made in putting all of the outlets on one breaker, and we’ve got a little more reason to be suspicious of the GC’s talents. So we’re waiting for the electricinas to decide how to remedy their error, and now fretting about how to deal with the wall ’situation’. Now I’m wondering what we’ll uncover next.

At least we have plans! Here’s a draft. The final version is on paper. The anticipation is killing me.