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post #301 of 4394
11/8/05 at 5:09pm
China dog,

What I would give to be where you are at.I also have roughly 1400 sq. feet.
I am still on plumbing and electric.
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post #302 of 4394
11/8/05 at 6:53pm
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You'll get there... pretty soon you'll be passing me, I'm sure!

Bud
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post #303 of 4394
11/9/05 at 6:37am
My basement is about 1700 sq. ft. I am working on 1 room at a time. I have finished the bathroom; the hallways have just the painting and the floors to finish. The theater has the wiring done and some of the insulation. I had drywall for the theater delivered last Friday. It takes me awhile to haul the 42 sheets down to the basement. The last 2 rooms are used for storage of building material so for. I am sure that it will take me longer to complete but I don't get so bored doing one thing for a long time.
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post #304 of 4394
11/9/05 at 6:57am
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Sportrac,

Can relate and undertstand. I was talking to my Dad about it yesterday. I thought the drywall/mud would be the hump to get over and I still think it is, but there is still so much to do, including tiling the bathroom, trim/doors, stage, riser, proscenium, paint, cabinets, etc. Man, lots of time and money left!

So where's your construction thread?

Bud
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post #305 of 4394
11/9/05 at 7:18am
I didn't start one. I enjoy reading these threads so much more that I do writing on them.
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post #306 of 4394
11/10/05 at 10:29am
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Originally Posted by chinadog View Post

Well, I just posted a new thread about the soffit/linacoustic question figuring it may get some exposure from the acoustical wizards out there. Gee, apparently not every member reads this thread.... go figure! Probably a good thing for Chirpie....

Anyway, here's the new thread, hopefully we'll get some more info.

Yet another acoustic/linacoustic question

Bud

FYI, based on Greg and others responses on linacoustic under the soffit (thread above), I plan on going with the linacoustic under the soffits. I wanted to tie up that loose end.

Bud
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post #307 of 4394
11/13/05 at 9:02am
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Well, I started to mud the ceilings in the gameroom and concession area yesterday and today. I also put the second coat of mud on the ceiling in the HT room. Here's a photo my son snapped of me on my stilts. Unfortunately after he took the photo, he dropped the camera on the concrete floor two seconds after I told him to put the camera away and "don't drop it". He'll be six at the end of the month. I know what not to get him for his birthday! Taking the rest of the afternoon off, heading out to see Chicken Little.

Chripie, he's your chance for a little payback.



Bud
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post #308 of 4394
11/13/05 at 10:55am
Nice. At first glance I was thinking, "Bud's more like 8'4", not 6'4"!" Keep up the great work and progress, Bud!
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post #309 of 4394
11/13/05 at 11:28am
You mean he's a BIG mudder?

Bud: It's been great following your progress. I've gleaned much inspiration from you as a lurker. We've almost finished Scottswoode Cinema. All equipment is up and operating. We just have a little front and sidewall acoustic treatment to go. the results are great.

Good luck with the rest of your project.

Geoff
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post #310 of 4394
11/13/05 at 2:29pm
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Geoff, Thanks and welcome. You should start a thread and post some pictures!!!!

Tim, The stilts are great until you fall! I fell when I was on them in my last basement. Ugh, that hurt. Not a very soft or graceful landing.

Bud
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post #311 of 4394
11/13/05 at 4:02pm
Falling sucks!
But what really sucks is when someone is watching you and then you fall.
And there lays the DONKEY in all his glory!!
ME of course!

Just finished taping, ready to mop and then prime
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post #312 of 4394
11/13/05 at 5:10pm
Your son wasn't taking a picture of his father, he was taking a picture of his mudder.

Bud, you are 6'4", what do you need stilts for?
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post #313 of 4394
11/14/05 at 3:51am
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Toxarch,

Even as tall as I am, I'm not tall enough! The ceilings are 9 feet, so they beat dragging a ladder around. Much more convenient, besides I already had them. Picture of the stilts below.

Kingdome,

Luckily when I fell, I was alone. I actually crossed the feet while walking backwards and hit the wall first, then the ground. Sprained my wrist a little, but it wasn't TOO bad. Could have been a lot worse. Where are your pictures???

Here are the culprits. My son wants to try them, of course. BTW, the camera is working. Not sure why it didn't work before, but I'm not complaining.



Bud
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post #314 of 4394
11/14/05 at 12:15pm
yeah, I have some photos.
I will start a thread with a link.
I am getting closer and closer.
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post #315 of 4394
11/14/05 at 3:02pm
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Just a quick update with some good news related to the situation with my neighbor who was killed two months ago (posted here).

Back on the 3rd of November we held a golf tournament to raise money for their three kids. I was on the committee of about six that planned the tournament. It was a huge success! The tournament sold out in a few weeks, we had thirty odd hole sponsors, raffles, silent and live auctions. We even had a BMW and a Jeep Commander for holes-in-ones. Of course nobody won them. Most of the auction items were donated by corporations and businesses. Publix (grocery store chain) even donated $1000.00 in food and beverages. A local liquor distributor donated three kegs, which went quickly since we put them out on the course.

We managed to raise in the order of $40,000.00 that went to their kids education fund. It was a great time for a great cause. We're probably going to make it an annual event.

Also, FYI, back in that post two months ago I put some links to the news articles online. I've edited that post to include links to the follow on articles. Just thought you guys might want to know.

Bud
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post #316 of 4394
11/16/05 at 7:55pm
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So what's a home theater thread without some blue tape on the walls? I like to think of it as a like a right to passage.



I admit, the photo and MS Paint job is not my best work, but sort of shows what I'm dealing with. I'm now thinking post mud and trying to plan out the stage and proscenium. I think I plan on doing this on the simpler side with a curved stage, but not overly large. I've been looking at lots of stages to get ideas.

I'm somewhat limited to how deep I can go with it due to the door to the concession area and equipment area on the left. I figure I can go about 30 inches and still have room for molding around the doorway. I'll probably built a false wall to house a 100" screen and have to pull it out far enough to hide the center channel below. Once I figure out where that wall will be, I can then position those 3 four inch cans in the soffit to the best position over the stage. Once thats done, I'll drywall the bottom of that soffit, build the stage and frame out the screen wall.

I'm thinking of the Mitsubishi HC3000U now as an option for a projector, but it's offset may make it difficult to mount and still have the screen 30 inches off the ground and would ideally like to keep it there. The front row would be viewing right at the top of the bottom third of the screen (46" line). I may have to mount the project from the ceiling versus the soffit if I go with that machine. Still some time to figure that out.

Final coat o' mud on the HT ceiling soon (maybe by the end of this week), then I can rebuild my cove. Looking forward to seeing that completed.

Bud
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post #317 of 4394
11/17/05 at 10:18am
Bud,
How can you be still up in the air about projector placement (much less projectors) with drywall already in place?

I've agonized over which projector to go with and it seems each with different throw range could require different placement. I am in the final stages of wiring (whole basement), so I still have latitude for this. But it's definitely something I've always figured had to be pretty nailed down prior to drywall.

Incidentally, I'm planning on going with the Panasonic AE700. I would love to go AE900, but need to keep it under 1500 to stay on budget. The 700's are just now starting to be available within that price range.
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post #318 of 4394
11/17/05 at 10:55am
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Steve,

I know, I know. Drywall is "not completely complete!" Take a look at the soffit though, its all still open under there. It's also open in the soffit area where the projector will go. I left it open for that very reason. I wanted to make a projector decision before closing it up. I'm really itching to do that now. That's one benefit about doing the drywall yourself!

I planned on mounting the projector under the soffit, depending on the offset of the machine selected. All the cables are in place, plus I have conduit in place. I left enough slack to move the cables to the back wall or the front of the soffit. If I decide to move to the front of the soffit though, I'll have to cut back the conduit and reroute it a little, but no big deal, it's all open there still. Fortunately, I decided to leave the conduit empty for future use only. The existing cables are routed outside of the conduit.

I was going to go with the AE700, but the bulb life and replace cost scared me. I was then going to wait on the AE900 and see if there was any improvements. I then started looking at the Z4 and now the Mitsubishi HC3000 since Ben Harper recommended it. I'm hoping he can get one for me to demo for a few hours in the next couple of weeks so I can ensure it'll work the way I want it to. He lives a few miles away.

The AE700/900 and the Z4 seem to have the most flexible throws of the projectors I've looked at and they are still options if the Mits doesn't work out.

Bud
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post #319 of 4394
11/17/05 at 12:46pm
Bud,
Aha! Well that makes more sense. Just curious, what cables did you run outside of your conduit? Right now I only have 3 coax cables for component video and a cat5 for IR. I figured I would run any "special" cables like HDMI through my conduit as needed, but I can't help feeling like I'm missing something by not running more cables.
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post #320 of 4394
11/17/05 at 1:13pm
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Steve,

I ran HDMI, component, composite, cat6, 50 ft IR expansion from Smarthome.com ($9.00 well spent if I need it) and a SVGA monitor extension cable (because I had it). I have 3" conduit if I forgot something.

Take a look at pccables.com.

Bud
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post #321 of 4394
11/17/05 at 5:07pm
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Here's my first cut at the stage and proscenium. I'm still figuring out dimensions, colors and all that stuff. The top picture is a look from above. I want to have a curved stage, probably with one step. It's a pretty simple design. It shows a sub on both sides, but I'll probably will go with only one. I'll probably tweak it and add the dimensions over the next week or so.

All comments, suggestions and criticism welcome!




Bud

EDIT: I adjusted the bottom drawing since it looked compressed and broke the one drawing into two.
EDIT 2: Gary's recommendation.
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post #322 of 4394
11/17/05 at 8:05pm
Looks great - put a still from a movie on the screen!!!

I like it!

Gary
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post #323 of 4394
11/17/05 at 9:25pm
Now we're talkin...
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post #324 of 4394
11/18/05 at 6:41am
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I filled in the front stage carpet with black in the drawing since I'll probably go with the whole front stage carpet in black anyway. I'll probably do the soffit in black GOM and do a dark blue on the ceiling. Not sure I like the Milano blue at this point.

As far as colors go, I sort of like the medium/dark grey (298) GOM but would probably use that on the lower half of the walls. I'm also tossing around Blue Spruce (467), Ultramarine (470), and Bayberry (486). I could use something completely different (a la Clarence) since my surrounds will be ceiling mounted, that leaves the walls open to any type of fabric. Need to explore this option more. Here is the main fabric color page for Fabricmate. I think there is a better online source for viewing GOM samples, but can't find it now.

I cut and pasted fabric into the drawings for kicks. Here is the front wall with those colors mentioned above.

Ultramarine 470
Blue Spruce 467
Bayberry 486
Medium Grey 298

Any recommendations?

Bud
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post #325 of 4394
11/18/05 at 7:33am
Hey Bud,

Just some info, my wall paint color matchs the 486 Bayberry perfectly. The GOM that you see on covering the first reflection panels is the BayBerry fabric. Look at picture 22, 24 and 34.

David home theater

CD
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post #326 of 4394
11/18/05 at 7:36am
Great work Bud.

I am on the west side of Cobb and currently working on my Theater. I will be following your progress and thread closely.

Jason
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post #327 of 4394
11/18/05 at 7:52am
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Originally Posted by chrismd77 View Post

Hey Bud,

Just some info, my wall paint color matchs the 486 Bayberry perfectly. The GOM that you see on covering the first reflection panels is the BayBerry fabric. Look at picture 22, 24 and 34.

David home theater

CD

CD,

You painted the underneath of your soffits flat black as I recall? I didn't realize that was Bayberry. Looks nice. I like the black trim as well.

Bud
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post #328 of 4394
11/18/05 at 7:55am
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Originally Posted by jikkjack View Post

Great work Bud.

I am on the west side of Cobb and currently working on my Theater. I will be following your progress and thread closely.

Jason

Jason,

Thanks and welcome to the forum. We're in Acworth, you're not far away. What stage are you at with your theater?

Bud
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post #329 of 4394
11/18/05 at 11:51am
Bud,

We are practically neighbors then. :-) Ok, here goes:

I am putting the dedicated theater in our basement.

1. Room is 28' L x 12' W X 8'6" H - framed with 2x6's and insulated. Ceiling is quiet floor system with hardwood floors above entire theater room (don't know if that would be any different from carpet).
2. All Electrical complete. Isolated 20 Amp circuit for projector, Isolated 20 Amp circuit for sconces, Isolated 20 Amp circuit for can lights, Isolated 20 Amp circuit for Receptacles.
3. All can lights installed.
4. All 12 gauge speaker wire run for 7.1
5. 2 Coax Belden 1505F cables run for 2 subs (Thanks EBR!!)
6. Columns Framed - I am putting light sconces on my columns not putting my di-polar surrounds in them(but may have if I found this forum earlier...).
7. Stage Built and over 1200 pounds of sand added.
8. Riser completed and floating on HVAC foam tape on top of concrete floor. Riser is not attached to any side walls.
9. Entire Basement HVAC 100% complete
10. Currently building a wall/bar on the back of the riser for universal HT controller, bar stools, and playstation 3(can't wait) wireless controllers
Plan to have 3 Berkline 088's front row, 3 Berkline 088's second row, then 3 nice bar stools staggered along bar behind riser for extra seats. This is due to unfortunately small room width and height :-( but I will take what I can get. ;-)

I have pictures but I have been so busy learning from all of the great people on this forum that I haven't had time to upload anything.

I am going to begin sheetroc next week as I have the entire week off for a little *ahem* vacation but really I am just going to work on the theater 24x7 all week long. Now that it is cold outside my R/C airplane addiction can hibernate and my Home Theater addiction can take over.

Thanks for the welcome.

Jason
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post #330 of 4394
11/18/05 at 12:00pm
Bud, coming a long great. Still enjoying all the updates.

Are you tempted at all by a 2.35:1 aspect ratio CH setup? Just curious.
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