Blazing Ridge Cinema construction has begun! - Page 8

OnlyOne,

Thanks dude!

All,

Bought and installed a few inside corners today. Also picked up two more buckets of mud. I just finished one so far, believe it or not, but I have not started the ceiling yet. Seams use more than you think. The inside and outside corner tape (with metal) that I mentioned a few threads ago from HD are actually USG and are 10 feet long. They're pretty easy to install. First you need to cut them to length. You then mud the corners on both sides about two-three inches. You insert the corner and press it in place, then go over the corner with a mud knife (the inside corner one works well). This will make it adhere to the corner. You can then take a mud knife and run it along the sides to pick up all the extra mud. I then put one layer of mud on one side of the corner. When it dries enough, I'll do the other side and keep alternating until its done. Here are some pictures of the corners uninstalled (inside and out) and installed with one layer of mud.

The inside corners have smaller widths. The other corners have a lot more tape to them. If you look close, you can see the metal on the bottom pieces.


Here is one installed by the bar, with one coat of mud on the left side (and still wet). These are pretty easy to work with and give the corner some strength. I probably won't use these on the ceilings because I plan on crown everywhere. I will probably use these on the HT room ceiling since I don't plan on crown in that room.


EDIT: Here is another picture of an outside corner. The right side has been mudded. The mud looks wider on the top because I had a vertical seam there and thats been mudded as well.


Bud

Dave,

No problem. I'm sure people do things different, but these corners are great. Maybe it'll help someone else out. I have a brad nailer, wouldn't want to do trim without it. I'll start that adventure in the not so distant future. I actually enjoy the trim work (helps when you have a compound mitre, brad nailer and compressor though). Crown on the other hand is a pain in the butt, but I'll get through it in due time.

Bud

Hey Gary,

Actually, the boxes are the Carlton adjustable type you get at Big Orange. They were only recessed while I got the drywall up. I've adjusted most of them already in the HT room, but haven't gotten to them all. I do plan on GOM and will build boxes for around the switches to give me something to staple to.

A few pictures:




Bud

Gary,

Brian is correct. Sorry for the confusion. Big Orange or Big Orange Box is a direct reference to Home Depot. And my apologies, they're Carlon, not Carlton. See pictures below.

Brian,

Thanks! I'm amazed by the number of people that follow it, I'm glad people are enjoying it or getting something out it. I have not burned the DVD yet, but will try it today. A few threads ago I said I canceled that laptop I bought, but then reordered it after a second hard drive crashed. I didn't have a DVD burner before, but I do now. I'll have to run to Staples and pick up some blank DVDs on the way back from Home Depot. Going to be a busy day setting up.

Carlon boxes:



Info on the Carlon site and the sites main page

Bud

Mark,

I'll probably build frames out of 1/2 inch plywood (two pieces together). I'll make a square, then cut out a circle and secure. At least thats what I'm thinking at this point.

Bud

Gary,

Just the soffits. Not the main ceiling. I'll be covering the soffits in linacoustic, so therefore the GOM.

Brian,

Just didn't get the opportunity to do it and forgot! I was rushing up until the last minute getting things organized and people started showing up, so I ended up just forgetting about it. You're right though, I should have done the laptop thing, did that last time.

Larry,

Thanks and good luck, Looking forward to YOUR thread!

Bud

Well, we pulled it off. As I mentioned above, I was scrambling today. Did some mud in the AM including some outside soffit corners, then had to stop and cut the grass. After that, I needed to make a new screen. I was running out of time, so I ended up doing it in one inch PVC and a painters drop cloth. It worked, but I really wanted to build a wood frame. We had a full house for the first movie, but it was just my family for the second. We just wrapped up.

Here are a few pictures of this evening. The screen was 8 feet by 14 feet, but we did not fill the whole screen. I threw in Nemo to check the colors, but ended up watching what we said we would. The screen had a few wrinkles when I opened it, so I used my wifes steam cleaning thingie and for the most part, it worked well. I had two seams in the cloth, but they were not noticeable. In fact you could not see any wrinkles. I added rope light to the tent, worked out great as well.







Next time, I'll build a wooden frame and staple the cloth on, then paint it ceiling white.

Bud

Thanks guys, we've been there just two years now. You do get a lot for your money. I grew up in CT, but coming to this area is like doubling your income. You still get a lot for the money, even with the prices of homes creeping up.

Bud

Thanks Randy!

Sean,

Thanks. Projected on the front. The back has a support post for the deck as well as a support for the frame. The projector is sitting on a table, you can see it if you look close at the last picture. I was pretty amazed how well it looked, being so big and relative close, probably about 20 feet. I was also surprised you couldn't see the wrinkles in the screen.

Bud

Well, I did wanted to post some progress. I did some mud work over the weekend and took yesterday off to work in the basement as well. I now have the first coat on all my outside corners done on my soffits in the gameroom/bar, as well as all my interior corners (including where the wall and soffits meet). I also did a final coat on the horizontal seams, but still need one more coat on the butt joints. I still have the ceiling to do. I also did the second coat on all the butt joints in the HT room.

Coming slowly, but its coming. I'll probably hold off any additional work until the end of the week.

Bud

Ben,

Give me a shout, always here. Looking forward to hooking up.

Bud

Larry,

Pretty cool. I've seen a variation of that, but that looks pretty nice. I bet it's not cheap.

Craig,

If I had a block of time I could probably use the fast drying mud and get it done quicker. Unfortunately, I usually only have a few hours here or there so I'll mud one side of inside corner, then do a different corner, mud a seam and use whatever mud is left on the knife to cover some screw holes. I feel like I'm bouncing around the room a lot and not getting one thing done at a time. You have to be patient with this stuff as well, if you rush it, makes a mess and thats more sanding later.

On top of the squeeze for time now, I'm considering seriously switching jobs and/or companies. I'm not sure how that'll impact my progress, but would expect that I'll have even less time. I've got some tough decisions to make.

Bud