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Capitalism Works For Capitalists

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep . . . It starts at 6:30 AM and, together with numerous other stressful construction noises, goes through breakfast, lunch, cocktail hour and dinner. In south Walton county, construction crews are permitted to work from 7 AM until 7 PM six days a week Monday through Saturday. Residents miss the white construction crews. They didn’t get going until 8 AM, knocked off at 3:30 PM, and didn’t work on Saturdays But the Mexican construction crews produce non-stop construction noise 72 hours a week.

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Innerspace (NMF part 5)

With the interior skeleton largely in place it is time to turn my attention to putting some skin on these bones–the inside bones anyway.

So to begin, first we have to ensure that there is a layer of dampening material between each layer of the structure.  In this case I’m using an underlayment foam.  It is relatively inexpensive, easy to come by (the flooring isle), and effective in covering a large surface area.  This is partly to dampen the wall surface and partly to help create another layer to seal one side from the other.  It isn’t much of a barrier to sound, but it does help.

Beginning with the roll foam:

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A Fine Errection (NMF part 4)

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/02/17/its-not-my-fault-part-3/

The title of this section was carefully designed to get Stucky to at least open this post.  He may not read it, but while NickelthroweR inspired me to get started, Stucky’s equally amazing DIY narratives encouraged me nearly as much.

So here begins the part where it gets really hard…really.

Just not this way:  (Stucky at home reading TBP)

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It’s not my fault…. (Part 3)

Laying the Foundation

For the backstory see:

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/02/12/its-not-my-fault-part-1/

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/02/17/its-not-my-fault-part-2/

As with nearly any building project, big or small, you build the base and work up from there.  This project is no different; however, we want our base to have a few interesting and unusual properties.  In this case we want our base to provide access for ducting, we want it to be as isolated as we can make it, and we want it to be easily portable.  Easily portable?  That is absolutely essential.

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