Harvest Ridge Theater (A CJ Project) - Page 9

Hope you had fun at the beach. We had a wonderful time. I was in the basement thinking about what's next last night and can see light at the end of the tunnel. I think the major stuff left is:

Second coat of primer in the main part of the basement
Primer the equipment room
Paint the main part of the basement
Tile the shower walls and floor
Paint bathroom
Install fixtures in the bath (vanity, toilet, sink, lighting, etc).
Fully connect electrical devices for final inspection
Pass Final inspection
Build riser and stage
Install flooring in the equipment room
Install doors throughout the basement
Wall treatments in the theater
Trim throughout the basement
Final lighting in the entire basement (trim rigns, sconces, bar lights)
Install cabinets for the bar
Build bar top and front
Install tile at entryways and bar area
Have carpet installed throughout
Electronics!

CJ

I didn't use it. I got turned on to Holmes on Homes from someone on this forum. They use the Ditra and the Schulter Kerdi system for shower pans. http://www.schluter.com/143.aspx

I looked into the kits for this and for my shower, the kit was almost $600. I wound up building the shower pan using 40 mil liner and mortar. Getting the slope right was a bear, but I think I got it done. We're looking to begin tile on the walls this week.

Thanks for the tip in any event.

CJ

You are both right. I looked at these and wound up bulding it myself. I cut a few 1"x2" boards with the required slope to use for screed rods. I think I got this right, but it was not easy.

CJ

Advertguy:

Thanks for the pointer. I spent a few moments browsing the site and it looks really familiar...I think I have been there before. When I was researching how to do this, I think I may have dropped in and read up. I also picked up a book from HD that detailed this pretty well. I built a sloped bed of mortar ad let it dry. I then layed the liner down and stapled it to the studs near the top. I then installed the drain and placed pea gravel around the base of the drain to allow water to drain into the weep holes. After that, I installed a second sloped bed of mortar, leaving enough room for the tile to lay flush with the drain.

I think I covered everything... Thank you for the help. If I missed something, please let me know.

CJ

I got lucky and didn't have that problem. I'd hate to get GG all over the house!

I love your new tag line in your siggy. Made me chuckle.

CJ

Thank you! There is a lot left to do, but I think the biggest part now lies behind us instead of in front of us. I'm shooting to have primer AND final paint in the main part of the basement this weekend as well as get a good start on tiling the shower.

This is the last weekend that I have free for a few weeks, so I'm going to try to make the most of it.

CJ

We worked quite a bit on the Labor Day weekend. I took Friday off to make progress in the theater. We spent most of the day on Friday working the final spots of drywall that needed a bit of touch up. The few hours wound up becoming a half day. The final items were touched up and we were happy that the drywall was as good as we desired. The next morning we were off to the store to pick up supplies.

The first item that we picked up was a paint sprayer. I really had a hard time deciding between two units. I wound up picking up a Paint Crew sprayer by Wagner.



This was found at Lowe's for $189. The next step up was a unit that was more contractor-oriented and cost $299. It did not have a hopper, but all of the other parts were the same (same spray head, hose, etc.). When I got to the register, I found that the unit had a $50 rebate! I picked up 15 gallons of KILZ 2 primer, some drop cloths, and went back to work.

We started painting in the walls of the theater. These will be covered with fabric so it was a perfect place to practice and gain experience. Our goal is to finish the final inspections before we begin the wall treatments, so we'll need to primer the entire basement in order to pass inspection.

The sprayer was easy to use and really worked well. Saturday we finished spraying two coats of primer in the theater and the bathroom.

We took Sunday off and painted one coat of primer on the walls and ceiling of the main part of the basement. Here are some photos:

Back of the theater seating area:


screen wall:


Entry looking backward:


Shower:


Other end of the bathroom:


First coat of primer on the main part of the basement:




We hope to finish spraying the primer this weekend and get some paint on the walls.

CJ

I do like the sprayer. It is a bit difficult to clean up, but I think that's common in paint sprayers. If you thin the paint properly, it sprays wonderfully. Nice and even. You'll need to play around a bit to find the right mix.

I did have my wife backroll the second coat with an 18" roller to make sure it was super smooth. That's how many of the paint crews do it and I thought "what the heck".

If I had it to do over again, I'd still buy this sprayer. Teh total cost is $140 vs $299. All of the spray parts are exactly the same...I can clean the hopper a few times for that savings.

CJ

I was able to put up 7 gallons in the theater in about 2.5 hours of spraying. I've used a power roller too and hated it. It was hard to get it adjusted correctly and it seemed to leave roller hairs all over. I used one in my bedroom and darn near threw it away. I'm going to give it to someone that I don't like I think.

I used nearly 8 gallons in the main part of the basement in 3 hours (most of the time was spent moving the sprayer and step stools around). I have painted quite a bit and spraying is so much faster it's not even a fair comparison.

I'm going to spray everything that I can. I don't think one can spray in rooms with furniture and carpet, but I love how quickly it goes and how well this little sprayer works.

CJ

Yes, that's a good point. I sealed off the entire basement with drop cloths, and covered the windows too. I want to get the paint done so I can uncover them again (it's not as bright down there with the windows and doors covered).

The air filter strapped to the back of a box fan trick works very well to clear the air too.

CJ

Thanks! We're really getting excited, although there's still a lot of work left to do. I figure first screening around Christmas, but we'll see...

The front of the 1/2 wall in the shower will be tiled with the same tile as the shower. We would like to to a thick rimless glass door and glass panel above the 1/2 wall. I'm also tiling the ceiling in the shower, so I'd like to go all the way up with the glass.

I haven't even started to cost that out, but that's what we want right now. We are working towards a spa like feel to the room.

CJ

Finished spraying the second coat of primer in main part of the basement yesterday. Did the entire ceiling and walls. I'll not bore you with pictures, but another step along the way.

Today we're going to try to paint the final color in the entire basement.

CJ

Stuff came up and we weren't able to make any progress. ;-(

CJ

OK, I made some progress two weeks ago. We got the second coat of primer up in the basement. With the exception of the equipment room, the entire basement has two coats of primer up.

Here are some photos of the primer:







Ran into a major roadblock in that the paint color we had decided on for the main part of the basement is now unsuitable (too dark). #$%@#!! Back to the drawing board!

CJ

After finishing the primer in the basement, we thought we were ready for color. Little did I know that our color choice would turn out to be unsuitable. The color we had picked for the main part of the basement appeared too dark. Back to the drawing board!

We stopped by Lowe's, HD, Sherwin Williams, and Benjamin Moore, as well as the many of your build threads. We literally evaluated hundreds of colors. We even picked up a bunch of samples of the ones that we liked the best:



These were on the wall in the basement for a week or so while we tried to figure out which we liked best in all of the different lighting. We knew we wanted a neutral tone. The wife really liked Bill M's blue color, but in the end, we kept gravitating to hues of brown.



We even picked up samples of Craig (StrangeBrew) and Blaxxima's colors. In the end, we decided on Brown Bag (Blaxxima's room color) and an antique white for the ceiling.

We picked up 11 gallons to do both the ceiling and walls, and hope to get started on it today.

In addition, we started tiling the shower:



Since I didn't get started until after 8:00pm, I didn't get much done. I did however, remember how much I don't like carrying boxes of tile. I carried 14 boxes of tile to the basement (through the house...the basement doors are covered in preparation for painting).

Question for you...when I spray one color on the ceiling and a different one on the walls, is there a special order I need to take to get this done? I think I'll spray 2 coats on the ceiling first then work on the walls. Has anyone sprayed both? How did you do it?

CJ