We are currently finishing out our 1320 sq-ft basement. This includes a 430 sq-ft dedicated HT. With acoustical wall treatment, I hope to come in under $20k for the entire basement. Most of the equipment, we already have from our old HT. We will add a new pj, new screen, HT seating and a popcorn popper. Those charges aren't included.
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I'm doing mine basically by myself, with occasional help from relatives. Entire basement is around 1000 sq ft, with 200 of that dedicated to storage and furnace (home theater room is around 345 sq ft). What I figured:
Construction (wood, electrical, drywall)--around $2000 maybe, maybe less
Insulation--$500
Carpet--probably $2000 to $3000
Light fixtures--around $200
drop ceiling for 2/3's of basement--I have no idea, but probably around $500.
Bathroom, kitchen fixtures/counters--$1000
Total: $5200 to $6200. That may be a little high honestly. My only consulting firm is the avsforum.
I wasn't going to do sound treatments, then I was, and now I'm not again. It's not really worth the time, effort, and money to me--I just want to sit back in the recliners and watch movies or play games with the local neigborhood kids that stop by. My wife says I'm deaf anyways so I probably wouldn't hear the difference anyways, lol.
Taylor34
Construction (wood, electrical, drywall)--around $2000 maybe, maybe less
Insulation--$500
Carpet--probably $2000 to $3000
Light fixtures--around $200
drop ceiling for 2/3's of basement--I have no idea, but probably around $500.
Bathroom, kitchen fixtures/counters--$1000
Total: $5200 to $6200. That may be a little high honestly. My only consulting firm is the avsforum.
I wasn't going to do sound treatments, then I was, and now I'm not again. It's not really worth the time, effort, and money to me--I just want to sit back in the recliners and watch movies or play games with the local neigborhood kids that stop by. My wife says I'm deaf anyways so I probably wouldn't hear the difference anyways, lol.Taylor34
I am very similar to Taylor34.
A 1,000ft/2 basement, including a 320ft/2 HT.
Rough costs (was recording in a detailed Excel file, but overwrote it with a real old version):
$500 in wood
$300 in Electric (a lot of 12 guage)
$250 in Cabling (RG6, Cat5e, DVI and s-video)
$400 in insulation
$400 in drywall
$100 in drywall finishing (tools, tape, mud, corner bead etc)
$600 in doors (double french, two single, and a pair of sliding louvered doors)
$300 in trim (baseboard and case)
$450 in light fixtures
$100 in tiling
$100 in fixtures (door handles, and a bathroom fixture set)
$100 in Rack components (shelving system and mdf)
$60 in primer
$1,000 in plumbing (the one thing I outsourced, a half bath was plumbed in from scratch (concrete dug up etc.), and the price included all work plus sink and toilet)
...so $4,660 for now! I have still to get paint and carpet, accoustic panels, a screen, a stage - Oh my, will it never end I have not included tools as they will be with me for a long time.
This has taken me 10months to get this far, and I am almost done (you know what I mean, almost ready to plug speakers in)! I have all the equipment from when it was just a basement with a couch, this is all in boxes right now. I look to have everything done for under $7,000 ($9,000 if you include the new projector I'll get with the 2004 tax return check )
- Brett
edit: I nearly forgot. I also plan on spending about $1,600 on seats.
A 1,000ft/2 basement, including a 320ft/2 HT.
Rough costs (was recording in a detailed Excel file, but overwrote it with a real old version):
$500 in wood
$300 in Electric (a lot of 12 guage)
$250 in Cabling (RG6, Cat5e, DVI and s-video)
$400 in insulation
$400 in drywall
$100 in drywall finishing (tools, tape, mud, corner bead etc)
$600 in doors (double french, two single, and a pair of sliding louvered doors)
$300 in trim (baseboard and case)
$450 in light fixtures
$100 in tiling
$100 in fixtures (door handles, and a bathroom fixture set)
$100 in Rack components (shelving system and mdf)
$60 in primer
$1,000 in plumbing (the one thing I outsourced, a half bath was plumbed in from scratch (concrete dug up etc.), and the price included all work plus sink and toilet)
...so $4,660 for now! I have still to get paint and carpet, accoustic panels, a screen, a stage - Oh my, will it never end
I have not included tools as they will be with me for a long time.This has taken me 10months to get this far, and I am almost done (you know what I mean, almost ready to plug speakers in)! I have all the equipment from when it was just a basement with a couch, this is all in boxes right now. I look to have everything done for under $7,000 ($9,000 if you include the new projector I'll get with the 2004 tax return check
)- Brett
edit: I nearly forgot. I also plan on spending about $1,600 on seats.
My case was the same as CtpRandy's. I've had an open checkbook with the wife on this project - unfortunately she's starting to come to grips with some of the costs.
2300 ft² basement - 400 ft² is HT, 450 ft² is rec room, 200 ft² is my office, plus my shop and misc. space for closets & hallways. In the end we'll probably be at about $30,000 for the construction related costs. (I did all work myself except for drywall, plastering and HVAC) We're not done yet - the plastering was finished last week and I'm putting in Dricore subfloor right now. Still have to buy paint, carpet, doors and woodwork yet - but I've added those into the $25k guess.
Add to that equipment and furniture. (we're re-using a lot of what we already had - but not only will there be a 7.1 HT down there, but a rec room with a 65" HD-RPTV and 2.1 system as well)
I did the design work, in conjunction with the designer at the local HT shop.
2300 ft² basement - 400 ft² is HT, 450 ft² is rec room, 200 ft² is my office, plus my shop and misc. space for closets & hallways. In the end we'll probably be at about $30,000 for the construction related costs. (I did all work myself except for drywall, plastering and HVAC) We're not done yet - the plastering was finished last week and I'm putting in Dricore subfloor right now. Still have to buy paint, carpet, doors and woodwork yet - but I've added those into the $25k guess.
Add to that equipment and furniture. (we're re-using a lot of what we already had - but not only will there be a 7.1 HT down there, but a rec room with a 65" HD-RPTV and 2.1 system as well)
I did the design work, in conjunction with the designer at the local HT shop.
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Pete,
What door, hinges, and lockset did you use. We have toyed with the idea of using the "Zero" hardware but WOW are those some big price tags! Curious as to what you used and how you like the results.
We are working with Dennis on our room (just finishing the framing now.
Sorry to hijack the thread.
To get back on track, we have abandoned the notion that we have a budget. We are doing this room ONCE. Equipment may come and go but the room is being done ONCE (Unless Art S. takes me on as an extremely overpaid assistant at his practice and donates the CRT stack as a bonus).
My wife (God bless her) was the one that decided that we had no budget. That DOES NOT mean that we have an endless supply of money, far from it. It means that things get done the right way, as time and money allow. If it takes a year to complete it, so be it. It will end up exactly like I wanted it and "right".
You are on the right track with treating the room as a very major component of the whole experience. Great speakers can sound like crap in a poorly designed and treated room. However I am hoping that my Atlantics sound like they cost 5 times the money in my properly done room.
Take your time, pick the brains of those that have brains worth picking (mine is not one) and consider paying a professional (I am biased toward Dennis Erskine) to look at your unique needs and space and build your wants and wishes into a satisfying experience for you adn your family.
Good luck.
| Originally posted by peteness This includes some significant non-essentials (hushbox, candy counter, rebuilding the equipment rack, way over-priced hinges and lockset, etc). |
What door, hinges, and lockset did you use. We have toyed with the idea of using the "Zero" hardware but WOW
are those some big price tags! Curious as to what you used and how you like the results.We are working with Dennis on our room (just finishing the framing now.
Sorry to hijack the thread.
To get back on track, we have abandoned the notion that we have a budget. We are doing this room ONCE. Equipment may come and go but the room is being done ONCE (Unless Art S. takes me on as an extremely overpaid assistant at his practice and donates the CRT stack as a bonus).
My wife (God bless her) was the one that decided that we had no budget. That DOES NOT mean that we have an endless supply of money, far from it. It means that things get done the right way, as time and money allow. If it takes a year to complete it, so be it. It will end up exactly like I wanted it and "right".
You are on the right track with treating the room as a very major component of the whole experience. Great speakers can sound like crap in a poorly designed and treated room. However I am hoping that my Atlantics sound like they cost 5 times the money in my properly done room.
Take your time, pick the brains of those that have brains worth picking (mine is not one) and consider paying a professional (I am biased toward Dennis Erskine) to look at your unique needs and space and build your wants and wishes into a satisfying experience for you adn your family.
Good luck.
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I have a single exterior door that is in the theater - and GoM'ed. This required hardware that would handle 3" of door (1-7/8 for door, 1" for GoM). This was *way* non-trivial to procure for me. I had to custom-build the jamb to fit the wall depth, then put in a $90 slab door, and then put on $500 of hardware. I used a custom-order Shlage professional lockset and a set of hinges that a lockshop ordered for me that would accomodate the right thickness. It ended up working *great*, but the door alone took me two days and over $700.00 total cost.
This probably isn't the same problem you're running in to. I had to use commercial grade hardware just to make it all work. Paying someone to do the door probably would have cost less and been better because they would have been able to source the hardware cheaper.
Anyway, one of these days I'll add some pictures of the door area - it turned out absolutely great.
| Originally posted by E. Martin Pete, What door, hinges, and lockset did you use. We have toyed with the idea of using the "Zero" hardware but WOW are those some big price tags! Curious as to what you used and how you like the results. |
This probably isn't the same problem you're running in to. I had to use commercial grade hardware just to make it all work. Paying someone to do the door probably would have cost less and been better because they would have been able to source the hardware cheaper.
Anyway, one of these days I'll add some pictures of the door area - it turned out absolutely great.
My HT is an extreme low-budget effort. We were finishing off about 1200 ft^2 of basement, which included my office, my wife's work room, a large open area, and the HT (about 14x16x8).
Total for the basement finish-out is right around $22k. That was 30% below any other contractor, but it's also taken 2-3x longer than it should have.
That $22k figure includes building the HT (walls, carpet, double sheetrock in ceiling, some built-in cabinets, wiring, insulation in all walls, etc). Probably
Then there's about $500 for the projector (good find on an XG 852), $60 for the DIY 89x48 BO screen (which is huge in this small room), $340 for the Onkyo HTIB, $350 for the Momitsu V880N, about $200 for sound treatments, maybe $100-200 if we decide to put some curtains on the screen wall, probably $100 for misc cables &etc.
All told, counting the "$1000 more than a bedroom" build costs, I'm into it for less than $3000 TOTAL. Less than most people spend on a 50" TV.
Total for the basement finish-out is right around $22k. That was 30% below any other contractor, but it's also taken 2-3x longer than it should have.
That $22k figure includes building the HT (walls, carpet, double sheetrock in ceiling, some built-in cabinets, wiring, insulation in all walls, etc). Probably
Then there's about $500 for the projector (good find on an XG 852), $60 for the DIY 89x48 BO screen (which is huge in this small room), $340 for the Onkyo HTIB, $350 for the Momitsu V880N, about $200 for sound treatments, maybe $100-200 if we decide to put some curtains on the screen wall, probably $100 for misc cables &etc.
All told, counting the "$1000 more than a bedroom" build costs, I'm into it for less than $3000 TOTAL. Less than most people spend on a 50" TV.
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Hey, if you are happy with it, that is all that is important!
| Originally posted by garyfritz All told, counting the "$1000 more than a bedroom" build costs, I'm into it for less than $3000 TOTAL. Less than most people spend on a 50" TV. |
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