I need some professional input here from someone who has a lot of experience with construction / remodeling.
My wife and I want to turn our formal dining room into a 4th bedroom. We need it for my home office, and the way the dining room is setup makes it very convenient. I've had a number of quotes on this project, but they all came back being a lot more than I want to spend, so I'm going to just do it myself I think.
Here is what we're dealing with (don't mind all the kid toys):
If you notice, there's a portion of the ceiling that hangs down lower in the dining room. What I'm planning on doing is putting the new wall up so it meets the bottom of that low hanging area. The new wall will have a door in it, and that pocket door going from the kitchen to the dining room will be patched up and turned into a wall.
I know how to do most of this. The framing is easy, as is the rest of it for the most part. My issue is I'm not sure what the best way to attach a new wall to an existing wall is, given that the existing walls have sheet rock on them and everything.
If I put up a new wall and then put sheet rock on it, where the seams of the new wall meet the current walls, they are going to have gaps in them (though they'd be small gaps), and that will look half ass. My thought was that maybe I cut the sheetrock off the existing walls in the areas where the new wall frame will go, and then when I put the sheet rock on the new wall, I can install some of those 90 degree metal pieces that attach one piece of sheet rock on the current walls to the sheet rock on the new wall.
This would also allow me to drill the 2x4s on the new wall directly into the studs on the existing walls instead of going through the sheet rock that currently sits over them.
In other words, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make this new wall integrate seamlessly with the existing walls in the most professional way possible. I don't want this to be some sort of a hack job is what I'm saying.
Oh, and in terms of the best insulation for letting the least amount of sound in, what would you suggest?
My wife and I want to turn our formal dining room into a 4th bedroom. We need it for my home office, and the way the dining room is setup makes it very convenient. I've had a number of quotes on this project, but they all came back being a lot more than I want to spend, so I'm going to just do it myself I think.
Here is what we're dealing with (don't mind all the kid toys):
If you notice, there's a portion of the ceiling that hangs down lower in the dining room. What I'm planning on doing is putting the new wall up so it meets the bottom of that low hanging area. The new wall will have a door in it, and that pocket door going from the kitchen to the dining room will be patched up and turned into a wall.
I know how to do most of this. The framing is easy, as is the rest of it for the most part. My issue is I'm not sure what the best way to attach a new wall to an existing wall is, given that the existing walls have sheet rock on them and everything.
If I put up a new wall and then put sheet rock on it, where the seams of the new wall meet the current walls, they are going to have gaps in them (though they'd be small gaps), and that will look half ass. My thought was that maybe I cut the sheetrock off the existing walls in the areas where the new wall frame will go, and then when I put the sheet rock on the new wall, I can install some of those 90 degree metal pieces that attach one piece of sheet rock on the current walls to the sheet rock on the new wall.
This would also allow me to drill the 2x4s on the new wall directly into the studs on the existing walls instead of going through the sheet rock that currently sits over them.
In other words, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make this new wall integrate seamlessly with the existing walls in the most professional way possible. I don't want this to be some sort of a hack job is what I'm saying.
Oh, and in terms of the best insulation for letting the least amount of sound in, what would you suggest?