Completing the Studio

We finally got the studio finished! Here's how the all-important floor was done.

We began by laying down a sheet of black plastic material as a moisture barrier. Then a layer of ply with special foam pads glued underneath in a predetermined pattern -- to give the required spring.

Then another layer of ply glued and screwed on top of that... Our friend Dave is spreading the glue here. By this point, we've got a pretty solid floor -- but lacking the nice surface finish.

Finally the bamboo arrived. There's a bit of a story here. In the end, we were unable to find a Portuguese supplier -- even though we were in contact with a firm that brings bamboo flooring into Lisbon from China. They would only sell wholesale -- and have no distributors at all within Portugal! Minimum sale was a container load -- enough flooring for about 6000 square metres. Our studio is only about 33 square metres! In the end, we bought from a London company and had it brought over specially to Portugal...

Note the planed down area on the far side of the floor -- where somehow I got the levels wrong. (There was lots of adjustment to do, what with an uneven floor and two door sills at different heights...)

There it is done. One happy cat (she loves the space) and one happy Megumi.

Now it's 99% finished and fitted out with a sound system and storage for Meg's sheet music, yoga mats, etc.