Family day out on Saturday (Haddenham Rally) so only Sunday available for studio building.
By the way, I received the new switch for the burnt out drill and fitted this during the week and now works perfectly. So I now have a spare drill which will come in quite useful.
Sunday:
Today's task was to assemble the door frame wall. Having already constructed the door frame last weekend I attached two lengths of stud work to the outer sides. These were screwed between the top and bottom timbers of the frame at exactly 37.5mm (3 x 12.5mm drywall) from the inside surface of the frame. This ensures that the drywall ends up perfectly flush with the inside of the door frame and also helped to align the frame when secure it to the rest of the framework. If you read earlier you'll know that the door frame will be offset to the right (looking from inside) of the outer door, maximising the amount of space available to locate the DAW. All went together really well and with two stud work uprights and noggings screwed I have myself a very sturdy doorway construction ready to mount the door to. Although I have plenty of offcuts I ended up with exactly the right amount of stud lengths for the uprights - more luck than judgement I think!
Electrical:
As you may know the fan will be located in the garage. The switching and fan speed controller will be located inside the airlock so the cables will be fed into the studio and back out to the fan, via the switch. I have pretty much designed the electrical layout so all I need to do now is feed the tails through allowing enough length to reach the desired positions. I'll need 2 x 2.5mm T&E (Socket Ring), 1 x 1.0mm (Lighting), 1 x 1.0mm T&E (Spur for Fan) and 1 x 10amp round section (Fan Return).
I made a start feeding the electrical cables through from the garage. I managed to get a few lengths through before the end of the day but this is a job I can probably get done during the week. That's that for the weekend but a reasonable amount complete - more next weekend...