South Riding Cinema and Draft House Construction - Page 8

Thanks bud. I havnt posted in a while, but have been busy working on the room. I will post some updated pics later this weekend. I have about half the wall panels up and it is comming out great IMHO, but then again I am a little biased on this buildout

Welcome yellohj! I have two pairs of the QS-8 surrounds for the sides and rear. M60s for the front and a vp150 for the center. I got the speakers before I decided to go for the SMX screen with a false wall. If I had planned on that from the start I would have probably used 3 of the same speaker across the front. I also have an HSU VTF-3 MK2 for the sub

Kegerator Parts detail and pics

Kegerator: Haier Kegerator (Stainless Steel Version) From Best Buy ~$450
Tower: 4" 3 hole Stainless Steel tower + Stainless Base and Drip Tray From American Coffee & Urn acumetalfab.com ~$160
Faucets: SS Ultra-Flo-vm Faucets from Vent-matic 414-217-8406 ~$37 each
Other: Flow-gate from Vent-matic 414-217-8406
Taps, tubing, regulators, misc: Micromatic.com

I got a lot of great info from the guys at the NorthernBrewers forums when I was looking into putting it all together.

I got the flowgates with the faucets together for one price as a kit with tubing and couplers, but I an not sure if they still offer that or not. It was an intro thing when they came out with their revised faucets at the time. The Flow-gates go in line between the tap and the faucet and supposedly helps take the guess work out of temp/pressure/line length for a perfect pour without all head and stuff. Since this is my first keg setup I dont really have anything else to compare it to, but I have had 0 issues.

The co2 tank is hard to see but is in the back left of the kegerator.

Here is another pic of the secondary regulator to control individual pressures to each keg.

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know that. That must be a change since they sold out to Anheuser Bush recently.


That has always been the case. They brew the real version in barrels from Virginia Gentleman whiskey and can exactly match the taste from barrel to barrel so you can only get the good stuff at the pub. That has to be one of my favorite beers. It even passed the WAF with flying colors! Unfortunately they don't sell the commercial version of it in the 5 gallon kegs ether though. I could always get a Cornie Keg and tap to hook up to my setup and fill it via growler to get the good stuff on tap! I will have to measure... maybe I can fit 2 commercial 5 gal and 1 cornie.

Well its been a long time since I posted any updates, but I have been working on the room.

Today I passed the final electrical inspection!

The whats left list...

1) Couple small pieces of baseboard that will be done today
2) Install threshold for future drop seals on door
3) Install equipment and enjoy!
4) Get Carpet
5) Couple of wall panels still not done
6) Install door seals
7) A little touch up here and there.

Thats it!

I am off through tuesday to knock out a bunch of the above. I hope to get through a bunch of stuff by then.

Got a lot of the little things knocked out so far.

- I pulled the doors off and added a 1/2" plywood extention and a bottom gasket that I found at lowes. This provides a good seal against the threshold that is there so I dont need to order the drop bottoms at this point.

- Durring framing I made a design change and moved a wall that I had framed out 16". This left a bunch of divits in the slab so I patched them in preperation for carpet.

- Cut, assembled, painted and installed a bunch of the column top trim. This hides the GOM staples at the top. I just used some 1.5" stop moulding and flat black spray paint for these. I will also install them on the bottom after the carpet goes in so they dont get dinged up durring the installation.

- Got the 4 speaker mounting brackets for the Axiom QS8s installed

- Did some painting of the door and door frame

- Baseboard is now complete with the exception of the 2 pieces that will be attached to the door

Tomorrow I am going to pull the screen out and get the speakers put in. I will probably end up building some speaker stands to elevate the towers slightly and for the center channel. I also need to get an IR repeater system so I can put an emiter on the IR dimmer that runs the behind the screen lighting. That was a late addition to the room so its not tied into the GE for dimming.

I still havn't purchased a receiver yet either, but am leaning towards the Denon 3808ci. Might have to run out to see if I can beat the odds and find one in stock locally for a good price. Would be a shame to get the speakers in and not be able to play with them.

Mark,

My doors were installed a little higher off the ground that I should have put them in so I added a strip of 1/2" plywood to shrink the gap down to approx 1/2" or a little under which was the perfect fit for the weather stripping i found.

In the first pic you can see the threshold that is under the door from the bar area. I was originally planning on putting some type of additional threshold in so that it would protrude inside the room by less than an inch and provide a good seal for surface mounted drop seals on the theater side of the door. That's when I found the "hidden" weather stripping that mounts under the door at lowes.

The second pic shows the bottom of a door with the strip attached (door open)

The last pic shows one of the doors closed producing a nice tight seal.

The product I used was basically an aluminum track with a rubber strip that slides in. I cut the track to length, cut the plywood spacer the same size at the track, took the door off, screwed the strip to the door bottom, put the door back on. I also put caulk between the plywood and door, and between the plywood and alum track.

When I was at lowes I noticed another side mound (vs bottom mount) product that had a slightly different gasket with fins protruding from a round tube rather than just a round tube that slides into the track. The fins version was slightly taller and would fit the track of the first so I bought both. Since the slab below the door was not perfectly level I ended up using the round tube stripping on one door and swapping the rubber strip with the fins onto the second door to make sure I had a good seal along a high spot. I did use a razor knife to slightly shave down the fins along an 8" strip of the door so that the seal was tight, but didn't make the door hard to open and close.

The next post has a pic of the two different strips.

The gray round strip is the one that came with the track that I used on the bottom of the doors. Its just a flat aluminum track that screws on and the gray strip slides in.

The white one comes with a white strip that has the exact same profile as the gray, but has fins protruding from the round part. This strip fits the flat track from the gray perfectly.

The strips were made by a company called MD.
The gray one was the "Hidden Door Bottom".
The White one was the "L-Shaped Door Bottom".

I found them near the end of the isle with all the door knobs and other door hardware.

Here is a pic of the column top trim installed. This is just to hide the staples. The same trim will be installed on the bottom of the columns as well.

I have begun installing the sound system. I am using Axiom towers and center up front, but the lower drives on the towers needed to be elevated a little so they were not blocked by the frame of the screen or screen wall framing. I constructed a few quick and dirty speaker stands so solve the problem.

For the side towers I just built MDF boxes painted them black and they will be filled with sand. The center is the same, but uses a 3" pvc pipe and a couple flanges to elevate a shelf that the center will sit on. The PVC pipe is filled with insulation.

These stands result in the tweeters of all 3 fronts being lined up at a hair below center of the screen.

Pic of the new toy I picked up today...

and a couple random room pics.

Ended up stopping in at Audio Buys in Manassas on yet another run to the hardware store. Got the only one they had in stock

I only hooked it up to test it out when I first got it (and that was a long time ago). I did some A/B testing between it and an old Infinity sub that I have had forever. Long story short... I loved it! I cant wait to try it out in the theater room.

Yes it is... I will keep it to myself though because there isnt a chance of passing the WAF.

Just finished getting the front speakers in place. Here are a couple pics (they are black, but the flash made them look silver/white). If anyone has any tips for a starting position for the toe-in of the front towers I would appreciate it. I just went with a point mid way between the rows for now.