The Merrimont trace Theater has begun - Page 3

LOL!!!

Jackpot!!!!

Toys and more Toys all in my garage

truth be told not all is staying my friend need to use his trailer to move a friend so need a place to store his tools for the day

good news the table saw the router the chop saw and drywall lift are staying and paint sprayer lucky me

got a allot done this weekend but not as much as i would like
i have not posted any pic in while mainly because to be honest of just forgot to bring the camera down

anyway

two conduits have been run one is for the hdmi and cat6 from the projector to the equipment closet and the other is from the network patch panel to the equipment room fro running network cabling





ping stuff going up .... used unfazed because my basement already has the silver stuff so no need for two vapor barriers





first layer of drywall going up

i have run into a slight problem with figure out how to setup the rear speakers

they will have to be in the ceiling and the prob is that i have HVAC ducts int he way and there is really no option of moving them in this situation

i can do it this way and was wondering if any one else has done this way ?

the center of the room lands on a joist so on ether side of that ....... option B would be go very wide

a few inches .... i will get the wife to snap a pic and can show you better tonight

you kinda can see here

Drywall and rest of insulation shows up tomorrow ... so this weekend the basement/theater will be starting to taking shape,

speaker wire run check
electrical check
smurf tube to second level of house for whole house sonos check
smurf tube for speakers under future deck check
all conduit run for projector and networking check

so hope i am not forgetting anything

i think i will take some time tomorrow to walk through and be like santa and check my list twice before the first pice of drywall goes up.

long day today ... me and my friend got the two layers and green glue on the ceiling in the theater area, also got the first layer of DW on the walls in theater area.

got the first layer of DW up in the bar area and also got some of the bulk head done.



































And with this i have decided i will contracting out the mudding and taping and finishing of the drywall

you have to pick your battles

spent another eight hours working today ...... my body is hurting all over but it is well worth it

still need to finish behind the bar and the bulk head




the theater are now has two layer of drywall on all walls and ceiling






shot looking from bar area into theater and i was two tired to do the infamous tape on wall for where the screen will be




from the bar area looking towards the game room .... left the lights off there because it is the tool storage room at the moment




all the speaker wire and also can see the conduit running into the equipment closet

my thoughts on double drywall and green glue (sound proofing)

when i started this i was thinking ok i am going to do this and that to sound proof the room double drywall green glue double drywall between joist ect....
and i will say this for all the folks that have not started the dream basement/theater, when i started and not sure if i speaking for others but i remember asking my self WHY!! and i doing all this it feels like i am building my basement TWICE!!!
I know for new people doing this for the first time you will ask your self the very same thing you will get tired you will think well i will just skip this or that....
I can now say this push your self through the long hours push your self through the stuff that nobody will ever see and stuff that most people will not appriciate except for you and the people on this forum... because when you the drywall goes up and all of sudden the foot fall and the dog walking across the hardwood floor above your room suddenly goes away you first will be amazed and second you will get excited and realize that all the back and neck pain and countless hours of doing things that you just hate doing is all worth it.

even though my room is open concept all of this work made a huge huge difference and now the biggest area all i need to work on is the stairwell leading upstairs it now echoes and the only time i can the wife is when she is the kitchen next to the stairway ... will be going with solid door and door sweep from sound proofing company.
Edited by snickers1 - 7/22/12 at 7:27pm

received crossover boards, will be building the econowave for my l/c/r's

finished drywalling the theater and bar area this weekend ..just have the game room and bathroom left to drywall

dodged a big bullet tonight... wife's car had a bad wheel hub/bearing rear driver side and her car is awd .... shop wanted 150 for the part and 325 to install

i ordered the part online for 110 and changed the hub/bearing tonight took hour and half and now nice and quiet drive again ...wifey is happy

now just have to pay for the little pugs dental next week and having a pimple looking thing removed from his little face wrinkle thank goodness we have doggy insurance and will get most of 600$ bill back

our little pugga

not much to report .... this weekend finished all the rest of the drywall, i have a drywall guy coming out tomorrow night to look at the job for mudding and taping...he came highly recommend from a contractor friend ... spoke with him a little today and he has been doing this for 30 years and seems very picky on the tools and supplies he uses like he only the blue mess tape because it is two inches wide and only likes a certain kind of corner bead ext....

also have hvac guys coming up out friday to finish there stuff bathroom fan they are using a quite fan and they also bringing out and extra one for the equipment room...

will post some pics soon right now everything is just drywall boring!!!

so glad to be done with the messy drywall ...... i feel like it has taken me forever to get to this point i think i have seen big finish two projects in the amount of time it has taken me to get to this stage...

drywall guy started tonight

got the all corner beed and tapeing .... he uses the wire mesh corner beed says it makes a stronger corner

bar area and theater area to the left



looking into the theater area









looking into game room




bar area and equipment area




inside the game room

drywall are almost done just have to do a little sanding and then should be ready for primer

very happy with there work all the lines are so tight and crisp and very square they did not skimp any where

as in previous post they used the same corner beed you would normally use for plaster walls and blue mess tape because it is wider

theater area






bar area and equipment closet








game room








fan for equipment ...put one of these in the bathroom also ...turned it on and swear i had to put my hand up in to make sure it was on!!! .3 sones

ugh drywall guy just sent me a text with pic attached ...he had to get fluid drained from his arm guess he had a in grown hair that got infected so he will not be out until during the week

o well i plenty of work to do ...bathroom still needs the shower drain moved and also need to finish dry walling it ...so it is not like the weekend will be a total lose

still would have been nice to get a coat of primer on the walls

i guess he thought i may of not believed him ... was just his arm wrapped up

thanks

drywall guys showed up tonight and started sanding ....looks like a coke factory blew up ..... looks like this weekend will be serious clean up before priming the walls

if only i had a full size window ...we did put a fan at the sliding glass door that helped ..... i am curious what did you do to get the floor clean again so when finish work starts your not tracking white foot prints every where..... shop vac is not gonna get the job done

need some opinions on colors , the carpet is silver lake house of jewels, cabinets are Sturbridge (red birch) and the laminate for the bar area is a black slate