Dungeon Building

Well, pets, this has been quite the adventure.

With very little building/renovating experience, my partner and I decided to build this dungeon by converting our garage. With almost 500 sq ft to play with, we felt that sound proofing was possible without really loosing our usable space.

I researched sound proofing and learned that 'a room within a room' with decoupled walls, baffling and green glue appears to be the most efficient...

The garage floor, being that the garage is very old, is cracked and raised in places. We built a floating subfloor to have a level workable surface. Sound easy? Because It was a huge pain in the ass. All the dungeon equipment is in the garage, so we piled everything on one end, built the floating floor frame, added decking, moved everything onto the decking, built the rest... with all three of us holding down full time responsibilities (myself as a full time student, my partner works as does our dear pet who volunteered much of his time to this project).

You can see here how darn crowded everything was, as we struggled to build this floor. What a pain in neck!

The new house does not have the room to store all the dungeon items (and we have vanilla's over often, so out of respect for their rather conservative view of the world some things need to be kept out of site!)

Thankfully, as the decking was added, things improved.

The decking made it a great deal easier to move the furntire and dungeon supplies out of the way, and gave us a nice flat surface for bulidling the floor frame. So things moved a bit more quickly at this point, except for the door.

The garage sank shortly after it was built, creating this very crooked door frame. The door is also a 32", which is not acceptable.

By this point we had sealed up the garage bay door as well, so we need another door.

I am not big on installing doors... so I hired a contractor for this part. I bought two doors, solid core so that they offer some sound proofing as well, and had the contractors cut a hole in the wall for the second door. It took them the entire day (and I think they snooped my items, the brats) but it is Done!

I was installing the decking the day they arrived to install the doors. Because the floor is floating we added 1/2" osb on top of the decking to give it a bit more oomf. With a tonne of pl and screws the decking is now VERY solid.

At this point we are still waiting for One Call so that we can get heat out here. Brrr.... I have two little heaters keeping us from freezing, but the wind certainly is being horrid. Gotta love Edmonton, sometimes.

With the floor done I then insulated the windows on the inside and out, and covered them on the outside. In the spring I will build some 'shutters' for them. For now, they are insulated, sound proof and taken care of. There will be no windows in my dungeon!!

We started building the inside walls. These walls are not touching any of the other walls, but instead will be a decoupled room within a room. The insulation will add some baffling, and then we will drywall with two layers (green glue between) to complete the sound proofing.

We then had to close up the ceiling. A friend of a friend sold us some OSB for cheap as heck, so we used that to close up the attic. We rented an insulation blower and then closed it up entirely. It is warmer in here already! Now... we are getting somewhere.

Once the interior walls are completely up we will drywall and paint. There will be under the flooring heating for the center (rope and takedown area) of the room. If ONE CALL doesn't get their act together I will install an electric fireplace until spring.

I cannot wait!! I am very excited to have this project FINALLY coming together. There have been so many misadventures in creating this space... the $$ I have sank into this is a bit terrifying.

I will update soooon...

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