The New Studio Saga
April 13, 1999 (my birthday)
I called every drywall company in the book, several times and couldn't even get a call-back. I finally got one guys' wife and she said it would be at least 6 weeks before he could consider it. A friend of a friend knew some guys and they said they could do it - for double the national average price, cash money off the books, I would supply all materials. I added it up and it came to over a dollar a square foot. Suddenly, materials that looked too expensive seemed much more reasonable.
I found a plywood "bead and board" panel for the machine room and bench room.
Tim Hintz came over to work for me for a couple of days, and we got the sheet rock up in the gallery and bench room ceiling. I rented a panel lift for a few days - it is worth every dime. We insulated between the gallery and machine room-primarily to cut down on noise.