Building a table room

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Long story short, I'm purchasing my first home, and it has a pretty big pole barn in the back, I want to put up a divider in, and create a pool room and on the other side, my welding shop. I'm experienced in environmental controls for regulating heat and humidity, but would anyone have any suggestions on what type of walls to put up to insulate the room with the correct heat/humidity? Not sure if I want to put up drywall but I can. Plain particular board would also be easy just not sure it would insulate well. Shoot me some suggestions!

Edit: located in mid Michigan, sorry, should of realized that would help
 
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fishermanOICUR1 said:
At the least, heavily insulate your pool room walls and ceiling and carpet the floor.
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Ceiling is already insulated as well as 2 of the walls. carpet won't be a problem, just looking for recommendations on an easy way to put up walls with good insulation. Don't really care to drywall and staple rolls, but I can if that's the best way to go about it
 
Hope these ideas help.
I built an outbuilding 16x20.

Base your rooms needs on HVAC concerns.
Keep the Dust outta that room.
Personally I'd do boiler heat.
WHY, Heat soak from this source, will help create a stable slate/room temperature.
You don't want a room at 70 and your slate cold or have to get slate heaters.
Flooring
Your other major concern.
I kept my 16x20 out building simple.
Dug the hole, poured the slab.
Purchased 5 ,1/2'' thick Rubber rolls16'x 4' and rolled up out, lapping up against the wall.
Where the rubber seams met, used Red Duct tape to keep control of the floor dirt/crack build up.

Only thing I dislike about rubber flooring is when you drop a piece chalk. :)
 
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Remember to run all your wiring, security, speaker, electrical(need a ‘switched’ light above pool table) and don’t forget plumbing if needed .. HVAC
You can use foam board for insulation and if you have moisture problems check into vinyl planks for flooring. Don’t forget about wifi, the router in your home might not extend to your building
 
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There are of course many options. High density foam is great, but you would have to put up a stud wall, and dry wall it. Very flammable. Do you have hog confinement buildings in your area? Familiar with the premade panels they use? EPS used to be one of the better ones.
 
2 winters ago, I lost the plumbing in the 1940s house holding my pool table.
The wife and I had been discussing raising that house and building something new on it for a few years. That house was 40-feet from the back door of our actual and current house.

I live in a city that is not allowing buildings over 2450 SQ ft on a property of 65'×95'
So, we worked with an architect and after 6 months we had blueprints ready for city hall.
4 months of delay in city-planning, and
Due to a bunch of city-mandated considerations and a few of our own, my pool room is the bottom of a 2 bedroom 1½ bath 2 car garage apartment, while the new "main" house is a 3 bedroom 2½ bath.........

The garage apartment down stairs was designed to hold my 8-foot table with nothing impeding the stroke of a 60" cue and more than due consideration of 30" height of the table, and before any complain that I should have migrated up to a 9 foot table, this would have caused the main building to shrink by 300 SQ ft, something the wife would not buy off on (the lack of size not the 9-foot table). Compromises......

Drywall was put in last week, and interior work has begun. It is supposed to be move-in in July.
 
What are the regulations where you live, that would be a good start.

Back in Nebraska a buddy wanted plywood walls in the garage to screw stuff to but they're a fire hazard so he installed plywood and then drywalled over them.
 
That is exactly what we did. In pole barn. Two studded walls put up, fiberglass insulation ceiling and walls, and 1/4 in Luan that was leftovers we acquired. We are Northern Ohio.
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@buckshotshoey, wow, adirondack player's chairs! Did you design and build them? I was super into woodworking when I was younger and made one when I was 14 or so (normal height). That's why it popped out at me on your picture.
 
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