The April Fools Flood Procrasto-Budget Build - Page 3

Ok, I need finalize the layout, any input on the bathrooms? Anyone have a nice little half bath they can show me a layout of? Or take pic? Or give me dimensions? help!

Bhuttman! Awesome thanks for the pics!!! i take it the 8' dimension is longer the room needs to be due to the shower? I will redo my plans at 3.5' wide and check the clearences.

Jp- thanks for the pocket door tips, is the 24" door a bathroom or closet?

Thanks guys!!! Awesome, I love when I can eliminate the unknowns!!

Did a bunch of work on the weekend but did not have a chance to take pics. The common wall on the bathroom/theater are all that is left for framing on the theater (except for soffits). The layout is changing for the better!

Good idea, I was thinking of a sports theme....

I went by one of my friends shops (graphics company) yesterday and we started talking about screen material, he has some vinyl that I think would work great for a DIY screen. When it comes time to get PJ and screen I am going to get some samples and see what works best.

This is the framing around the exhuast vent, I will frame a small box around it later. The closet will go across where the 2x is laid on the floor, the screen will go in front of that (either hinged frame or drop down screen).

Soooo Crappy Tire (Canadian Tire for you yanks, its a store where I would buy anything but tires at) has there garage organizer system on sale.



I figure a couple of these should help me with my garage mess which will in turn help me move stuff from the basement speeding up the process.

So I am in to some weird framing for my AV and PC Closets it has kind of slowed progress. Once I get past that It should be quick work framing in the bathroom, then the OSB can go down in the theater. I am trying to decide if I should lay down the OSB before or after I frame the closet/screen wall. I am thinking if I or anyone else wants make that one big room in the future it would be easier if the wall was framed on top of the OSB.

Indicated by the Red lines...

With the platon flooring the instructions recommend doing the exterior walls on top of the plastic platon floor and then put the OSB down with a 1/4" gap all the way around. It says you can frame non-supporting walls on top of the OSB.


I was basing my furnace room on the rule of thumb for clearance from furnaces and hot water heaters etc. The front should have at least the same distance as the entire depth of the device. The sides and front should be at least on half the width and depth for access.

This is a more recent version of the layout, the washer dryer will be stacked. So there should be more then 3ft between them and the furnace. The hot water heater is its original position. The main panel for the house is in the garage.

Got a bit of framing done during the week on the bathroom/ theater common wall, this shot is looking towards the rough in for the toilet, through the space where the sink wall will be.


Theater side (notice how I have gone from calling it Rec. Room to Theater). If I would give one piece of advice to anyone it would be remove everything you can from the build area that is not construction material. This TV is always in the way, and can be a distraction, plus you end up moving everything 10 times when you want to move to a new area.


Fancy Chisel work, I could have done this with power tools but my dad had brought over some of my grandfathers old tools so I decided to try my hand at it the old fashion way.

Got a bit of framing done yesterday with my youngest (2 year old) helping out. He swept and counted out screws!

I avoided a pontential critical error by placing the toilet beside the rough in to quadriple check the distance to the wall. I had made a mock up previously but somehow got it wrong after checking 3 times. I would have been short by 3/8" when the drywall was in. So I moved the closet wall back which still gives me a healthy 26" Wide x 21" deep closet. I was going to put a 21" Panasonic in the a/v closet but it looks like my 27" Toshiba CRT would even fit.



Picture from the theater side, the space between the pole framing and the box out for the toliet is going to be a 6" deep x 48" wide recess for a DVD shelf or some other storage.



Picture from the office side...

I think I have 90% convinced myself that I am going to go with 2 -28" pocket doors behind the screen. It requires 114" min. width and I have 116" and it will allow me to save some space as well as eliminate the worry of the kids opening the door and damaging the screen.

I don't feel like I am making progress (pics would be a waste of time) however I must be doing something because I went through 40 2x's and had to go to HD twice this week. Looks like I am going to need to get another delivery this weekend of 2x's, pocket doors, and OSB. I think it may be time to move the remaining crap out of the basement and clear room for flooring.

Ok, did a quick 3D sketch to make things a little easier to picture. I will try to throw in some speakers, and furniture soon.

Overview


Theater cut away with a 110" screen

A little more detail....

I finally found a picture of what I was thinking of doing for soffits/bulkheads. I want to leave a 4" gap and have lighting out of sight, like the picture below from the Trump Tower article:



Any ideas on the best way to do this?

It may be a good way to manage cables after the fact as well, I could have troughs for the cables to run to conduit in the walls. I could run the cables in the trough and then drop them into the appropriate conduit.