Pimp My Garage - Page 7

How'd it go? Find anything nice? I'm a little scared about what carpet may end up costing.


Sand in the stage ensures that it doesn't resonate from subs sitting on the stage (creating peaks, etc.).

It's somewhat room and equipment dependent - acoustic treatments are there to treat something - so it's best to diagnose (measure frequency response and decay times, interpret) and then prescribe treatments. However, it is apparently impossible to overdo bass trapping, so I've gone at that first without measuring; similarly with the front wall, there seems to be a general consensus to kill it, so I've done so. I'll hold off on the rest of the room treatments (walls) until I've got carpet and furniture in, and have measured with REW.

Right, no hat channels / clips. Since its detached from the house, I haven't focused much on sound isolation. REW is Room EQ Wizard, a program used to do acoustic measurements. Sand under the stage is to make it completely non-resonant, so subs sitting on it don't excite it.

Thanks Michael, sounds like I better get shopping. Besides, I'm falling further behind you in progress.

I went to Home Depot at lunch just to see what carpet they have - even that fairly generic stuff is 22-30/yd - ouch, a lot more expensive than even just a couple years ago. I may end up sewing together scraps of remnants... :-|

I noticed now that they like to advertise the price by the foot instead of by the yard, maybe they think it doesn't look as godawful expensive that way.

Thanks for the carpet suggestions guys!

Here's a (very) little progress - built shelves within the side columns, and fabric frames for the side column faces - slow going because I was using leftover scraps from the THT, plus no table saw. Hopefully will get the other four columns done this weekend. Sure.



I took delivery of the Berklines I ordered back in August - which means I better get some carpet in. Only opened one box and assembled and tested the motorized recline.



Checked a few places for carpet - here are the ones I'm looking at - the dark brown with the large diamond pattern is my front runner. What do you think? The carpet guy came to measure, says I need 58 yards - initially it was 62, but then he realized the carpet I was interested in comes 15' wide, not 12' wide, so less waste. Will come to $1800 installed, including pad (~$31/yd incl pad and install). Will mull it over this weekend. Turnaround is supposed to be about a week.

Maybe I should check if HD / Lowes can get those same carpets, and if so, what their price would be, just as a sanity check.

Called HD, they don't carry either of my front runners. Boo. Thought they could special order just about anything, maybe not for carpets??

Thanks gaitkeeper, sounds like you got a nice deal. I shopped around a little more, didn't see any better deals or carpets that I liked more without breaking the bank (there were some nice looking options for about triple my price). So I'm going to go ahead with that dark brown diamond pattern Shaw carpet (Shaw Complete Decor Q1784, Color 00702 Mystical), will drop off a deposit this afternoon. I'm going to schedule the install a few weeks out though, in the hope that I can finish my sawdust making phase at least (furring, panel frames - going to take off Monday and Tuesday next week to work on those).

Thanks guys! Sometimes when I post an update and don't get any feedback, I suspect I've done something horribly wrong and nobody wants to mention it! =)

I'm going to set up the carpet install in about 3 weeks, to give me some time to get my sawdust making done hopefully, so I don't make as much of a mess with the carpet.

Yes, but the box, what are your thoughts on the box? I wonder if I should have gone with a darker shade of cardboard.

Oh yeah, I looked at some intricately patterned carpets like that, but too rich for my blood.

Thanks guys for the box support!

If nothing else, I figure the cardboard will be useful to lay down on top of a layer of plastic drop sheeting, to put the ladder on when I inevitably have to do some more work on the ladder after the carpet is in.