The 'I can't believe you want the largest room in the house' HT build.1 - Page 17

Mate, that's fantastic news. Congratulations! Really happy for you both.

Hey there Tony, nice to hear from you. Undecided on the step. Maybe once I place the chairs in the room a location will be more obvious. The sliding mitre saw is fantastic. Has a laser guide as well which makes cuts real simple. I am gonna try to get the stage done this weekend as well. Maybe Monday as I have Tom which slows progress (in a good way). Then I can give the room a thorough clean and reduce the dust. The door you see is actually resting where the window was. I had to remove it as the floor level has raised 40mm, just over 1 1/2 inches. Its after midnight and the brain is still churning with what needs to be done.

Hi Peter,
Had a full morning so far. Sealed up all the gaps between the flooring and the walls as per the recommendation of Peter M. I will cheerfully send him the bill for the caulk. It ate about 7 tubes! Kaaaching!!!!
I have replaced an electrical box and brought it up to the rear corner of the riser for buttkickers power if I feel I need them. Screwed down the ply top on the riser and cut all the timbers for the stage. Going with 8x2 Oregon on 12 inch centers. Should be enough with stacks of insulation and two layers of 15mm (3/5 inch) ply on top. As I am on joists, I have decided not to go with sand. Think I may be pushing things a bit far with the old girl!!!!!
That will be about all today. Spending the weekend with Tom. Hope to finish the stage on Monday and then I need to work out treatments for the front wall. The fun never stops!!!!

You just did! Of course, you are most welcome on opening night, as long as you don't mind Transformers. The original and best.

Got stuck into work yesterday afternoon and framed up a simple stage. It's 4.16 metres wide x 1.2 metres deep x 230mm high (13.6 feet x 4 feet x 9 inches high). It's made entirely of 8x2 oregon so pretty heavy when assembled. I can vouch for this

Got it all screwed together last night by myself but at that point I couldn't face stuffing insulation in, so called it a night.

Ended up waking up at 6am and decided to get back into the theatre room for some more work. First order was bringing a power line up through the stage for a power outlet. This is a 20 amp dedicated circuit. Don't know what I will need it for behind the stage wall (maybe a track light to mount behind the screen) but thought I would pull it through and top mount a power outlet box.

Needed to check out a section on the side frame of the stage for the cables. Typical, but when I pulled the wires through the drywall, It was about 2 inches short from the top of the side timbers. Quick check out and there was room for the 5 cables (LCR plus 2 subs).

Stuffed the stage with the remainder of my horrible itchy scratchy insulation (happy that's gone!) and then got the first layer of ply down. Each layer of ply is 15mm (3/5 of an inch thick) and the stage top is twin layers with Green Glue.

Took two hours today with Dad's help and we managed to get the stage finished. It is as solid as a rock and not going anywhere. Should be a good platform for the Danleys. Made sure that it cleared all of the walls.

Anyway, some more pictures.


Riser stuffed with insulation (not too tight) and ready for the ply.


Power outlet box mounted to the top of the ply. For the buttkickers if I decide to use them.


Sorry about the fuzzy pic. Here's the timber cut up yesterday ready for stage assembly.


Stage framed up. Room smelt good with all that sawn up oregon.


Another shot of the stage.


Stuffed with insulation. Few bags in there! Power line also brought through top of stage.


Where I had to check out the side beam for the speaker wires. It lined up when the stage was pushed forward.


Starting the Green Gluing between the ply layers. Hopefully will make a difference.


He's such a help... already on the stage.


Getting the room tidy again.


View from the entry door, past the rear riser toward the stage.

I think I have earned some time off for a couple of days. Time to put up the Christmas tree and have some fun out of the theatre room.

Hi mate, The third row will be the verandah... I think I can do better than that!

Sounds like a great idea, but I don't want to put my guests to sleep before the feature presentation! Mate, I am up to 17 pages with 40,000 odd views and I haven't even hooked up a speaker yet. At this rate, my movie will be longer than Ben Hur!

Hi there mate,

Not sure what the issue is, the photos come out fine on my Iphone. Maybe others are having issues but seems to work ok at my end.

How's your room coming along?

G'day Peter,
Had to remove the door due to the floor thickness. Seems to have confused everyone! Will need to plane 40-45mm from the bottom of the door before I can reattach it. Also going to attach two layers of ply to the door with gg for added mass for isolation. That should bring it pretty close to the thickness of the walls.

Was contemplating charging admission. Need to recover all of these extra little costs I wasn't planning on! Need to get in fast with Elill. I won't see him for dust once your room is up and running! Going to maximise my small window of opportunity.

Cheers mate. Chat soon. Greg.

Hey there Peter,
I will saw off the bottom of the door. Need to replace the architrave i think to level up with the walls and the thicker door. Then install the acoustic seal.
In terms of the step, I have some timber left over. Will probably build a riser step when most of the work is done. May even make the stage a little fancier.
Just happy to have the room clean. If only for a short time!

The Big Day finally arrived yesterday. After completing the stage, I framed up a simple screen wall (a'la Big Mouth's Minimalist approach) and hung my piece of 13 1/2 foot white material from it. Took me a couple of hours to work out how to properly mount the Chief mount with the anamorphic lens, adapter plate and slide and I will need to make some adjustments.....

I am really happy with the projected image, if only on a piece of white calico material with about 100 creases in it!. In 16:9 mode I could pretty much fill the entire wall with a sharp image. In 2.35, I could get up to 140 inch wide image with pretty good clarity with the lens with only a little bit of pincushioning. Easily accounted for with a velour border on the screen frame. I still have an astigmatism correction lens to fit which is supposed to make the image sharper again. That will be the last thing that I do.

I still have quite a few tweaks to make to the projector, with adjustments to the colour, brightness, contrast, lens placement, angle, etc but this projector has a really simple electronic zoom and focus along with a very versatile lens shift. All in all, I am pretty happy with the setup. Now I just need to decide on a 2.35 image size that gives a good quality image and the maximum comfortable viewing size so that when I switch to 16:9 the image is not too small. I guess this is the dilemma that most people have when deciding 2.35 vs 16:9.

My internet connection is down at home so I am unable to post any pictures and I can't access photobucket from work. Will post next week when I am back on line. For those locals, you are most welcome to come around and check out the improvised set-up.

Cheers

Greg

Nice to know you guys have my back in terms of trust!!!! Still offline with my Internet. Thanks iinet! In any case, not an awful lot more to report. I am going to be building columns thisafternoon and mounting surrounds. Have 2 new 10m hdmi cables on order for the projector. Once the columns are done I will probably finish leading up to Christmas and then begin in earnest over the break. Columns will probably end up about 40cm wide x 20cm deep. Next post will be with pictures.
Cheers and merry Christmas to all!
Greg

I had a fairly substantial pile of timber delivered a couple of weeks ago for the flooring, riser, stage and internal framing for the fabric track and I am pleased to say that I am getting towards the end of it. Built the wall mount columns for the surround speakers (4) and for the front lights (2) and am now working my way around the room and onto the ceiling so that hopefully by end of tomorrow morning there will be no real wood left and I can start cleaning the front of the house for Christmas visitors. Will need to work out a layout for fabric track and once that's done I can get the fabric on order.

Wired and hung my 4 x Emotiva ERD-1 Bipole / Dipole surrounds which proved to be a pretty simple affair. Really well designed mounting brackets. So far, have been absolutely impressed with everything that I have purchased from them. Have not properly connected the wiring to my amps yet. Instead, I have wheeled the equipment rack over towards the door and have just connected two speakers to my amp. Still sounds pretty good and it's amazing what an improvement a bit of power can have on the speakers.

I am working afternoon shifts this week. Home at midnight, up at 6 to keep working. Probably sleep for a day after Christmas lunch at this rate but I really intend to prove the maxim wrong about hanging the projector.... although I did watch transformers dark of the moon yesterday at 150 inches diametre... very impressive picture. Sorry to say a pretty mediocre film!

Gotta keep going. Intend to have the room at least ready for acoustic treatments by Christmas. Will have worked out screen size by then too. Leaning towards about 140 inches 2.39:1 at this point. Love the immersion and the 16:9 content is still a good size.

Sorry, still no internet. Pictures are being taken and will follow in later posts.

Seasons Greetings

Greg

Looking forward to it Damien. Have been following along.. Looking good at your place too. Once that drywall goes up, things get a lot more 'FUN'.

Keep up the fast work... you're keeping me honest!