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post #811 of 3532
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Originally Posted by warrenP View Post

Oh Oh, does that count?! I'm building shelves this weekend... does that mean the theater is underway? Sweet!!!!

So I followed up on the previous post and did indeed build new storage shelves last weekend. This weekend I may fill them with some of the junk in the future theater room! Progress!!!!
post #812 of 3532
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OK, I'm back, I'm caught up at work, and ready to go.

It's September...Back To Theater Time! It's that time of year when everyone gets all excited and buys a bunch of shiny new crap they don't really need and makes plans about how great and different THIS year will be. I can hear it now...THIS year I WON'T be a nerd...THIS year I'll hang out with the cool kids...THIS year I'll hang a projector, just to measure screen size.

Yeah, right.

Looks like some of us have grajimitated (sorry, I went to the same HS as Big) and others have been left behind (sitting on their big fat lazy behinds). Others are still at home crying for Mommy. Some seem to have just plain dropped out. Looks like a few even went to summer school and actually caught up to grade level.

Playtime is OVER kiddies. BACK TO WORK. I don't care if it IS the first week of school. Not only is there homework everynight, but weekends, too. ESPECIALLY weekends. And I'm not talking about "check-the-box-with-the-C-A-T-in-it" type homework. I'm talking the "DO-IT-YOURSELF-and-show-your-work" homework. You're NOT going to get any help from Mommy or Daddy with THIS homework.

Oh, there WILL be a test. A test of your manhood (and I use that term loosely). Now, who's ready to step up? HUH? Who wants that piece of me? Yeah, YOU! I'm talking to YOU. I'm ready. Come on you losers.
post #813 of 3532
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Originally Posted by tlogan6797 View Post

Now, who's ready to step up? HUH? Who wants that piece of me? Yeah, YOU! I'm talking to YOU. I'm ready. Come on you losers.

Does this mean you will finish your rough-in this year?
post #814 of 3532
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I'm hoping to. I'm expecting to drywall by the end of the year (2008, for all you wise guys out there. I know what you're thinking). Maybe not the finishing, but the drywall up.

There. I've said it. Now who else has a plan?
post #815 of 3532
I still think the Habitat Theater build for Tom is the only way he'll make any progress.......
post #816 of 3532
What you took time off? Sissies. I must have a disease then. I work every spare moment, most of Saturday, all of Sunday. You'd think I'd be done now since I started in April, but I'm getting there.

Plans?

1. Drywall installed and complete by Oct 1st. I'm almost ready for it now. No, I'm not doing the drywall myself! Been there, done that... bought the cheesey t-shirt.

2. Paint by Oct 15. This of course requires me to buy a paint sprayer. Mooooore Toolz.

3. Carpet/flooring, doors, trim... yeahhhh. Carpet I'm subbing out so that can be installed right after paint's in. The rest may slow me down considerably.

4. First Showing: I'm shooting for Thanksgiving. We'll see if I run out of energy by then.
post #817 of 3532
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Originally Posted by tlogan6797 View Post

I'm hoping to. I'm expecting to drywall by the end of the year (2008, for all you wise guys out there. I know what you're thinking). Maybe not the finishing, but the drywall up.

There. I've said it. Now who else has a plan?

Mine is drywall up and finished in the whole basement, have the IB chamber running and have the new HVAC and mini-split system up and working.
post #818 of 3532
Thread Starter 
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I still think the Habitat Theater build for Tom is the only way he'll make any progress.......

That would work for me. BTW - How's that backyard still comming along? I want to see some pictures.
post #819 of 3532
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Hey, YOU! Javadoc. Yeah, I'm talking to YOU. You want a piece o' me? Don't go sticking your big fat nose in here and be calling me and my buddies sissies without the guts (that's the nice word for it) to stand up and take it like a MAN.

Your plans mean nothing to me. Nothing but a lot of hot air. And it must be that extra thin Colorado air. It affects your brain. AND your "manhood." You gonna crawl back under that rock or you gonna stand up like a man? Huh, which is it?

You know where to find me.
post #820 of 3532
My plan? Here it is big guy....my plan is to drop this thread on it's ear. Last month I seemed to be the only one who got anything done (I completed my entire list). I'm done with this thread...it's a time sink right now.

Continue to talk amongst yourselves....

CJ
post #821 of 3532
Ouch!! CJ must've started early this weekend, hes getting all high (pun intended ) and mighty on us.

I know RPh was looking for a goals list for September but it's just making me think to much of what I need to do and taking motivation away. So rather than make a short list this time around I'm just gonna proclaim to kick butt this month . Have a nice weekend
post #822 of 3532
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Originally Posted by tlogan6797 View Post

I'm hoping to. I'm expecting to drywall by the end of the year (2008, for all you wise guys out there. I know what you're thinking). Maybe not the finishing, but the drywall up.

There. I've said it. Now who else has a plan?

BTW - your plans include stopping by to get your speakers any time soon?
post #823 of 3532
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Originally Posted by tlogan6797 View Post

Hey, YOU! Javadoc. Yeah, I'm talking to YOU. You want a piece o' me? Don't go sticking your big fat nose in here and be calling me and my buddies sissies without the guts (that's the nice word for it) to stand up and take it like a MAN.

Your plans mean nothing to me. Nothing but a lot of hot air. And it must be that extra thin Colorado air. It affects your brain. AND your "manhood." You gonna crawl back under that rock or you gonna stand up like a man? Huh, which is it?

You know where to find me.

Oh man, fell out of my chair laughing!!
post #824 of 3532
CJ, Bro...don't you get it? This is a procratinor's thread....in reality, we all sit on the front porch and think of what should be, you....well you are prolly much too accomplished to be Loganated....You are the Man!
post #825 of 3532
OK, I have to ask and maybe this question has been brought up already, but are we ever really done with our theaters???
For instance, my room is technically done, but I still need to add a few things to the lobby area like a marquee over my hush box vent outside the room. Put a kick plate on my finished candy counter. Then I want to build another marquee and ticket window.
These are items that should be a week or two per project, but I have been procrastinating for months.
Then when these projects are finished, I am thinking about doing a star ceiling.
So I don't think a HT is ever done at least I don't think mine will be.
post #826 of 3532
Well master bedroom is stripped of all furnishings, poly lined carpets and drop cloths in place. Going to start marking out new ceiling perimeter ....... supplies should be delivered mid-week..... Game On .... I'm thinking will be back in the room by end of the month
post #827 of 3532
Thread Starter 
DISASTER STRIKES!

In the form of Hanna. Yes, it's happened. The dreaded basement flood. At least 2 inches of water above the Dricore, throughout the entire basement.

Saturday, I was running some wiring. I need to extend the two circuits for equipment in the front of the room to the new location in the back of the room. I had 100' roll of 12/2. Of course, I needed 60' per run. So, in the meantime, I make three runs of coax to the side wall plate (to make my own component cable - I have about 1000' I got for free so I thought I should use it). By the time I got that done it was getting to lunchtime and my wife had gone out to run some errands while it wasn't raining as hard as they were predicting. So I have to make a trip to HD for ANOTHER 100' (and yes, in hindsight I should have just had them run me 60' off the big roll) and pick up something for lunch.

I CHECKED THE WALKOUT WELL BEFORE I LEFT and there was 1/2" MAYBE 1" of water in there. It's about 6" inches deep. I cleared the drain "just in case." So as I pull out of the driveway, it hits full force. I run to HD, then drivethru for fast food on the way home. Get home and eat. About 10 minutes after that, my wife gets home. I sit for another 15 minutes or so. Make plans to meet my brother in Baltimore for dinner.

I head back downstairs, a total 90 minutes MAX has passed, and I've got a wading pool down there. Sump pump failed. My son was home, so we got him and started bailing. WE COULD NOT KEEP UP. I figured if we at least got below the level of the door, we could start getting water out of the basement. As soon as we got it below the door, got inside to start bailing, it was back up outside. I had a small shop vac and we got that going, but it was really of little help.

I had my wife call a neighbor up the street that does handyman services to see if he had a pump. Or at least a bigger shop vac. Yes! He does. Says he'll bring it down. Five minutes later, the power goes out. We call back on the cell to se if he has a generator. No, but he'll bring down the pump anyway. He shows up with TWO pumps modified to stay on and adapted for a garden hose. Meantime, we're still trying to bail. 20 minutes later, power come back on. We get the pumps going. AND start using the 16 gal vac. Takes about 30 seconds to fill, but is too heavy to get up the stairs to dump, so we have to bail a couple of buckets out each time to get it light enough to carry.

We get the water low enough that he volunteers to put in a new sump pump. He sends HIS wife to HD, who picks up the last 1/3 HP pump, and because the box was open and it was on the floor, she picks up one the few remaining 1/4 HPs, too, just in case. She also knows exactly which fittings to get and what a check valve is. No wonder he married her.

We get the pump going and that baby starts water flowing through the 1.5" PVC at full force. I look outside and the PVC comes out of the house above ground, runs down the side of the house and terminates in a 90 degree elbow. LOVELY. BUT...due my procrastination in returning a 10' section of 1.5" PVC, I can extend the drain! But my stairwell is longer than 10'. So my neighbor uses the rest of the 5' piece he used installing the pump and we get it past the stairwell.

About 30 minutes later the water is gone. Pump ran for another good 30 minutes at full force. After that, on and off, as it should.

...to be continued, next post.
post #828 of 3532
Damn, Tom! So sorry to hear that! Been there done that in my last house. We had two sumps that ran full bore everytime it sprinkled outside. I hope you didn't lose too much.
post #829 of 3532
Yowza!

Hopefully the damage was limited... Thank goodness for your neighbor as well!

I was sure that my basement would take the opportunity to flood due to Hanna since we had pretty much finished the last of the big projects (carpet and screen wall) by Saturday afternoon. The rain started right as we finished up for the day and went to dinner.

Thankfully the protective measures I had taken over the last few years paid off; chimney cap, sealed the cinder blocks at the base of the chimney, repaired a large crack with an injection kit, and put in gutters along the front of the house with extra long drains to the drainage field in back.

Keep us posted!
post #830 of 3532
Thread Starter 
HANNA, continued

So, the water was in there for a total of, maybe, 3 hours. When I first got down there, got my shoes off, and starting walking, the Dricore was actually floating. Hence a "floating" subfloor.

We called a few other neighbors, got as many fans going as we could down there. Dricore settled down. Surveyed the damage. Got up what we could. We were exhausted. And my back was killing me by then. Wife put in an insurance claim.

Sunday we went down to get out as much as we could and get a better sense of the damage.

WE ARE LUCKY.

The vast majority of the damage is to the boxes that things were stored in. So far, all that we lost is a print from the music festival in the town my wife is from. She has been collecting them yearly. She thinks she can replace it. I lost the bottom row of a box of books, with mostly sentimental value. We had a box of albums (for you young folks, that's an old fashsioned iPod) that got wet, but again not that big of a deal. Most of the other prints were in frames and wrapped in towels, and many of the other things in boxes were inside plastic bags. A few of the mat boards were wet, but we think in pretty good shape.

I had a couple of carpet remnants rolled up and standing up that I planned to put on the storage room floor once I got the rest of the shelves built, so we just tossed those. A few sheets of drywall I had planned to put behind the shelves I hadn't built yet got one edge wet. I can probably save those.

Worked most of the day. We now have a pile about three feet high and four feet wide of wet boxes and junk out on the top of the stairs. We really don't think we lost anything of value, except....

The box for the Denon 3806 got wet. BUT the actual unit is upstairs. So it was just the box.

What I think I lost is a set of Lionel trains from my Aunt. In orginal boxes. Even the outer box it was originally sold in, just plain carboard inked "Lionel Trains" a model number and "39.95." All the oirignal orange boxes the trains came in. The working cattle car, AND milk car, too. The instruction manual is copyrighted 1953. Anyway, we're trying to dry them out.

So far, the Dricore SEEMS OK. I'm sure we won't know for a couple of days at least.

AND, no one got hurt.

I am positive that this is soley the result of the failed sump pump and not any drainage issues. The house actually sits up and all four sides slope away from the house. Once the sump pump got going, the water drained very rapidily.

We have NEVER had any other water issues. Once right after I put down the dricore, it came close, but the drain was blocked, Once I cleared it, it drained fast. AND I TESTED THE SUMP PUMP LAST FEBRUARY. I had moved and rewired the box it plugs into for my electric rough-in. So I tested it after that to make SURE it worked. It failed sometime between then and now. I didn't notice anything amiss because in the five years we've been there, it has only run a few times, anyway. And even then it's usually AFTER the rain when the water has time to seep under the house and into the pit.

The bottom plates and studs appear to be drying out OK. So, we'll just have to wait and see if I'm replacing the dricore.
post #831 of 3532
Sucks big time... Are your walls built on top of the dricore??? My worst nightmare if it is.
Shortly after moving to my new home, we had like 2 weeks of heavy rain. Well the builder said the basement was always dry so no need for a sump pump, although a pit for it had been put in. My wife goes to put stuff down in the basement one saturday morning 2-3" of water across the entire basement, coming up from the sump pit, lovely.

Now with sump pump installed haven't had futher issues but I will be installing a back up pump which is battery protected in case of power failures.
http://www.acehardware.com/product/i...ductId=3197456

Sorry for the nightmare Tom. Best of luck.
post #832 of 3532
Man Tom, sorry to hear that. I hope the overall damage is minimal. Water can wreak havoc quickly.
post #833 of 3532
Crap, Tom! That really sucks. Even with our house on a hill, our sump-pump started to kick in a couple of hours after the rain started. The two other times the pump has kicked in during the last two years was after it had been raining for days and the ground was already soaked. I kept praying that we wouldn't lose power, because there was no way we would be able to keep up with the volume of water that was pouring into the well. I'm sooo sorry that this happened to you.

At least you didn't have the drywall up and it sounds like minimal loss of sentimental stuff. Let me know if I can be of any help getting you back on track.
post #834 of 3532
Sorry to hear about the sump failure. Here is a quote I pulled from here a couple years ago on sump pumps. The pumps this guy mentions are not cheap.

Quote:


jeffleonard
Z2 & Panamorph Fan

Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Westlake, Ohio
Posts: 312

I sell sump pumps (along with many other things) for a living.

The quietest pump I have ever heard (and it's in my basement) is made by Barnes pumps. It's a 1/2 HP and puts out near 4000 GPH. I have had people complain that they can't hear it, so how do they know it's working? Can't please everyone...

Get yourself a battery backup, too. And don't go cheap, the <$200 ones at Home Depot are glorified bilge pumps. Check out the Wayne water Systems isp-40. Again, it's in my basement.

If you can't find either of these locally, shoot me a PM and I can ship it to you.

Oh, I forgot...Flotec/Simer pumps are junk. (IMHO)
post #835 of 3532
Thread Starter 
Appreciate all the thoughts.

I won't know for a couple of days how the Dricore holds up. I DID build on top, but I haven't tacked it down yet, so I'm pretty confident that IF I have to replace it, it can be done realtively easily. Still a PIA, but can be done.

I DEFINITELY plan to come up with a backup plan.

Took a bunch of pics, will try to upload some tonight.

Cathan - I actually wanted to come by last week, but with the last minte trip to the beach and not getting back until late Tuesday, I had a pretty busy work-week. What's a good day this week?
post #836 of 3532
Sorry to hear... I know I checked my pump religiously on Saturday, and sweat bullets when the power went out. I'll keep my fingers crossed that everyhting dries out OK.
post #837 of 3532
Damn

We lost power at about 4 pm Saturday and thereafter I was shining my flashlight down an access hole in my sump well every hour to check the level of the water. Luckily it never came up. I also discovered that my battery on the backup battery system had bit the dust.

As a back up I grabbed my UPS with battery and planned to see if that would fire up the sump pump for a few cycles if the level rose, which it didn't.

We did however not have power until 6pm Sunday. 26 hours later.

I was wondering if anyone took a beating with all the rain and I'm sorry to hear that the Loganator got hit.

Tom, let us know what your recovery plan is and maybe a few of us have some spare time to get you back on pace. You know it's like the Tour de France. When one of the lead bikers goes down because of crowd interference the rest of the racers wait for him to catch up.


I've got a spare dehumidifier if you want to borrow it.
post #838 of 3532
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Originally Posted by BIGmouthinDC View Post

Tom, let us know what your recovery plan is and maybe a few of us have some spare time to get you back on pace. You know it's like the Tour de France. When one of the lead bikers goes down because of crowd interference the rest of the racers wait for him to catch up.

That's the spirit, we all need to wait and take a break for Tom to catch up...

Sorry to hear Tom, but at least you hadn't gotten to fully drywalled walls and carpet yet, that would have really been bad news.
post #839 of 3532
Sorry to hear of your flood, I've never even heard my sump pump come on - guess I better try to test soon

As per Big - you need any help just give me a call
post #840 of 3532
Yeah, what they said. I can help if you need anything. You are only a mountain away.
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