# Studio Floor Design
**URL:** https://community.mwtm.com/t/studio-floor-design/6250
**Category:** Studio & Gear
**Created:** [April 24, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/studio-floor-design/6250 "2024-04-24T17:16:09Z")
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### Author:  [@Sylvain\_Mayoli](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Sylvain_Mayoli)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/studio-floor-design/6250/1 "2024-04-24T17:16:09Z")
Hi John, thanks for sharing your precious knowledge with us here!
We are building a studio in a 150yo house with wood floor on wood-beams. ( rock wool under the beams for insulation from the garage).
-What would be a good solution to treat/ avoid exciting the floor? In order to level it up, we planned a 5cm layer of dry cork grains, and an OSB floor floating to it. dry floating floors.
-I was also curious about your “vented floors” design under the console at Rue Boyer. Have you done that anywhere else? We would be tempted to do it but it’s a pretty bold move!
Congrats on the Rue Boyer design by the way, hoping to visit soon!
Best
Sylvain
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### Author:  [@John\_Storyk](https://community.mwtm.com/u/John_Storyk)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/studio-floor-design/6250/2 "2024-04-27T10:00:34Z")
> [@Sylvain\_Mayoli](#):
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> We are building a studio in a 150yo house with wood floor on wood-beams. ( rock wool under the beams for insulation from the garage).
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> -What would be a good solution to treat/ avoid exciting the floor? In order to level it up, we planned a 5cm layer of dry cork grains, and an OSB floor floating to it. dry floating floors.
That sounds like it will work - density is what you are going for. Use glue if you can and nail. When you are cross seaming - don’t have seams on top of each other - We have had some good luck with plywood - 2 layers of 5/8" gyp board and then final layer of plywood - make a very tight floor on 12’ spacing - fill void with some kind of insulation.
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### Author:  [@John\_Storyk](https://community.mwtm.com/u/John_Storyk)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/studio-floor-design/6250/3 "2024-04-27T10:00:56Z")
> [@Sylvain\_Mayoli](#):
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> -I was also curious about your “vented floors” design under the console at Rue Boyer. Have you done that anywhere else? We would be tempted to do it but it’s a pretty bold move!
We have done this once or twice before, We use very advanced custom software (BEM - boundary element method) to determine a kind of heat map for sorting out very specific LF pressure positions (go to [REDIacoustics.com](http://rediacoustics.com/)) . Turns out that a location that is optimum for LF absorption at specific low frequencies is often directly above or below the listening position. We are rarely able to get the opportunity to introduce a resonator below the mix position chair! At Rue Boyer, we were able. We did a similar treatment at Church Studios in London.
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### Author:  [@Sylvain\_Mayoli](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Sylvain_Mayoli)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/studio-floor-design/6250/4 "2024-04-27T12:15:55Z")
that’s very cool! thanks for both reply. We will then definitely go ahead and build over the old wood floor and beams, here is the “sandwich”:
-studio
-wood flooring ( or cork finish)
-new solid OSB floor, 100 % floating on screeds, no nails ( or gypse)
-2" dry screeds made of expanded cork (or clay balls)
-old wood floor nailed on
-wood Beams
-insulation projected underneath the beams.
-garage
I will look into REDI Acoustics right now. Thanks a lot!
Sylvain