Sandmans Home Theater Construction Begins! - Page 124

Ruben - What are the rough dimensions this room will fit in?

Hope all is well with you. World famous is an understatement.

From post #1:
"The finished inside room dimensions will be 20' x 16' x 8.5" ceiling"
Add some space for the actual construction and you will have an idea before he responds.

Sucks to sell a place after working you ass off in it for so long, huh? I can relate....but gives me another opportunity to build another and a better one. Hope all is well with you Ruben. Trying to get to CEDIA again this year through work, maybe I'll see you there again.

Bud

For the record. That never helps.

Any pricing info yet?

If you have to ask you can't afford it.

that is sad news

You have to ask in order to buy...!

If not how in the heck can I write a check or bring my suit case of Ben's with me?

This is very true, only a fool would just say 'I don't care what it costs, just give it to me!'. Besides anyone with that much money would likely just commission their own custom built theatre...

IMHO after thinking about this and going back and reviewing the construction details, It would be far easier and cheaper to just strip out the insides of the theater down to the drywall and reassemble inside a new room built to the exact original dimensions. Think about this 16 ft wall over 8 ft tall, first it won't fit in any door except a garage door. It has overlapped double layers of drywall with Green Glue. It will weigh about 750 lbs so loading, unloading and transporting it isn't going to be easy. Then you need a pretty big truck. It would far easier to run down to the store and pick up some faming lumber and drywall and throw together a room. That way it would also fit in someones basement as the inside finishes can probably fit through a door and down a stair.

Also recall that the walls were originally one height with room within a room ceiling joists added at the top. Later it was decided that the room should be taller and the joists removed, Drywall and GG was added to the original garage ceiling and short wall sections fitted on top of the original framed walls. What this means is that the room comes without a ceiling, I know small point but another argument for just starting with a new wall and ceiling built to correct dimensions.

I think Ruben is looking for offers, Anyone buying it, I'm available for hire to try to put it back together. I do have a passport.
Edited by BIGmouthinDC - 7/15/12 at 10:55am

The wall was actually so heavy that it had to be cut down into sections in order to be installed!

CHAPEAU !!!

Im speechless...Just AMAZIG whats goin on here, and how much work it was.

I wish you and your Family all the best and may the the force be whit you )

creets from Germany

Stevie
Matrix Cinelounge

So let's see if I understand what's going. I have been trying to contact SMXscreen for a quote in the past 2 months. No one got back to me until last week. He asked me the size and the projector that I will be using with the screen. I replied but haven't heard from him. Then there are people having similar problem and support issues with SMXSCREEN. Now, Ruben has to sell his place? Is there any relationship between the two?

Just because people are selling their homes it doesn't mean they HAVE to sell their home, some people get bored with their homes after a few years and most certainly after a decade or more. With Ruben I think it's more about being sick of the same ole, same ole. He's pretty adventurous and was actually out here on the west coast playing around in waterfalls and mountains with me for a couple weeks late summer and I think he's just looking for a change of scenery and lack of same weather and mosquitos 364 days a year. I also think SmX evolved into much more than home theater type stuff, not sure since we didn't talk shop too much but I thought it went to more of a commercial screen company several years ago.

How are you contacting them, phone or email? (Try both) I called them and talked to Ruben directly, and the sales staff took it from there. They could just be really busy.

I think it's far more than one poster. I was trying to order one and multiple dealers informed me they had unfulfilled orders for months and warned against ordering. I also had people PM me on here when I said I was interested and we chatted for almost two months as they awaited for unfulfilled orders to come in.

I think if you get a screen, it's not initially defective, then you'll probably not need service over the life of it. And I've heard good things about SmX screens but ya gotta be able to get one...

Hmmmm.... The two posts you were referring to didn't hang around long

There's plenty more on the smx thread and Seymour thread. I guess I have to read posts from my email notifications before they're deleted lol

LOL!

Hi,

I'm trying to find out the speaker grill fabric type/ colour Ruben used in this build, but it doesnt seem to be mentioned anywhere in the build thread. I think it would suit my build perfectly.

Anyone know what exactly which fabric grill cloth was used?

Would really appreciate it!

Thanks,

Steve

Considering what has happened to SMX and Ruben thread should be locked.

So where can I find out what has happened to SMX... ?

Anyway to get additional screen material?

Check the SMX thread in the screen forum. Nobody is going to hear from them again without the assistance of their lawyer.

??? What happened ??