After almost a year of research and design, construction is about to start.
The theater will be approximately 14 feet wide by 20 feet long. The ceiling is 8.5f eet high. Screen will be a 120 diagonal cinemascope. LCR and main sub will be behind the screen. The room is going to be acoustically treated with Quest panels.
The best thing we have done so far was to hire Dennis Erskine from day 1. I bought the Signature level design from Dennis and I now plan to upgrade to the Reference level (Dennis comes over and calibrates all the A/V gear) The plans, including, framing, acoustics, HVAC, lighting, etc. we got from Dennis are amazing. This was money well spent.
Basic construction will be staggered 2x4 on a 2x6 bottom and top plate with two layers 5/8 drywall with Green Glue. Soffits run all around the theater which will hide all the HVAC.
I started last weekend by removing the existing carpet in the basement and some ceramic tile that was in the way of the new construction.
Before I can start framing, I still have some HVAC ducts to get moved and some plumbing pipes that are in the way of the backer boxes for the pot lights.
Friday PM, I am expecting a delivery for all the materials (drywall, OSB, plywood, insulation, MDF, cement board, lumber, etc.). I was able to pay a little extra to get the delivery guys to bring everything straight to the basement!
Stay tuned for some pics and also the exciting list of gear that Dennis has suggested (Dennis has champagne tastes!).
Wow nice work! Don't know how I have never seen your build before. Beautiful work so far and nice selection of gear. Looking forward to seeing the final results on this one. Subscribed.
Those plugs are flanged outlets. 1 for projector and 3 behind the screen. They will connect in the PowerHouse to feed the plugs to projector and 3 behind the screen.
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Those plugs are flanged outlets. 1 for projector and 3 behind the screen. They will connect in the PowerHouse to feed the plugs to projector and 3 behind the screen.
No. You plug one end of an electrical cord in the PowerHouse and the other end (a special female locking connector) into the flanged outlet. This will feed power to the projector plug and the 3 plugs behind the screen.
The reason for doing this as opposed to wiring the plugs directly to an electrical panel is that I can provide constant 120 balanced power to those plugs and also for the projector I can go from the PowerHouse to a UPS battery back up and then to the flanged outlet supplying the projector. Clean, 120v balanced and battery back up power.
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Carpet is finally installed!
Here is a picture of the Nailor diffusers in the floor. I had these powder coated in flat black. The whole platform acts as a bass trap. The brass plate is a floor mounted plug for the electric recliners
I was also able to finally complete the fabric install. The only thing left to do is to install the baseboards, crown molding around the cove light and moulding around the acoustic panels. That is my job for the weekend. I have someone coming over to help me with the trim. The trim is cherry wood in a dark espresso stain.
Here are a few pictures of the room with all the fabric installed. The colors on the pictures however don't reproduce the actual colors of the GOM fabric unfortunately.....
As my door is almost 4 inches thick with the acoustic panel and as the walls have the 1 inch fabric track I had to get a custom strike plate for the door latch
Here is an update on my kitchen/concession stand. The microwave an trim kit are installed
The popcorn machine and warm better dispenser look great on the back counter (the hot butter also tastes amazing!!!)
Oh and the fountain dispenser is finally here. I do however need to clean, it, hook it up, etc. Believe it ir not there are more parts for it in the room behind that wall than the actual unit on the counter (pumps, CO2 bottle, syrups, pressure gauges, etc...) This was a unit used in my father in laws restaurent. It is used and is quite dirty but once I clean it up and get it going it will me awesome.
I'm still trying to source that out. I think the local Coke distributor will do it, if not I have some contacts in the restaurent industry who should be able to get it for me.
Got the trim done this weekend. Here are some pics of the final project. Note that on the back wall I ran out of the small 1 x 1 trim (only 3 pieces are missing!)
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