Hi everyone,
I'm in the middle of re-finishing my basement after our home was water damaged last year. The basement was partially finished previously, many walls finished with drywall but no ceiling. I'm prepping the basement for full drywall finishing-walls and ceilings (relocated plumbing and electrical from below joists, added HVAC supply and return ducts, plumbed and framed in a full bathroom, installed foam-board at exterior walls, can lights, ran low-voltage lines upstairs and downstairs, ran conduit for future electrical, etc.). It has been a HUGE project that I've worked on nearly every weekend for ~6 months.
Where I need some help is that I framed off a 16' wide by 21' long (8.5' tall) area in the corner of the basement where I want to install a dedicated home theater. It will have a 48" double-door along the 21' wall at the front near the screen. Right now I've been using this area to hold my tools and building supplies, but I'm very close to being ready to install drywall throughout the rest of the basement (hired out!). My fiancée would really like us to have the drywall in the future theater room done at the same time because she doesn't want to deal with the dust upstairs and in the newly finished basement again. It would also be much cheaper to add this room now than to do it separately in the future, I'm sure. At this point the room is only framed at the two walls that partition it from the rest of the basement (other two walls are concrete exterior), so I was only planning to drywall the outsides of those two walls for now.
I've been reading AVSforum for years and done some theater research but I guess it isn't really clear to me how much work is done pre-drywall vs. post-drywall. I'm looking to build a pretty standard theater with soffits all around, some noise reduction efforts, etc. Does all the wiring go up in the soffits except the wall outlets? It seems like I would need to have a full plan, knowing where sconce lights would go, have the switch boxes roughed in with all 110V wires ran to proper locations, etc. Seems like a bad idea to rush this at the last minute, any thoughts??
Thanks!
Josh
I'm in the middle of re-finishing my basement after our home was water damaged last year. The basement was partially finished previously, many walls finished with drywall but no ceiling. I'm prepping the basement for full drywall finishing-walls and ceilings (relocated plumbing and electrical from below joists, added HVAC supply and return ducts, plumbed and framed in a full bathroom, installed foam-board at exterior walls, can lights, ran low-voltage lines upstairs and downstairs, ran conduit for future electrical, etc.). It has been a HUGE project that I've worked on nearly every weekend for ~6 months.
Where I need some help is that I framed off a 16' wide by 21' long (8.5' tall) area in the corner of the basement where I want to install a dedicated home theater. It will have a 48" double-door along the 21' wall at the front near the screen. Right now I've been using this area to hold my tools and building supplies, but I'm very close to being ready to install drywall throughout the rest of the basement (hired out!). My fiancée would really like us to have the drywall in the future theater room done at the same time because she doesn't want to deal with the dust upstairs and in the newly finished basement again. It would also be much cheaper to add this room now than to do it separately in the future, I'm sure. At this point the room is only framed at the two walls that partition it from the rest of the basement (other two walls are concrete exterior), so I was only planning to drywall the outsides of those two walls for now.
I've been reading AVSforum for years and done some theater research but I guess it isn't really clear to me how much work is done pre-drywall vs. post-drywall. I'm looking to build a pretty standard theater with soffits all around, some noise reduction efforts, etc. Does all the wiring go up in the soffits except the wall outlets? It seems like I would need to have a full plan, knowing where sconce lights would go, have the switch boxes roughed in with all 110V wires ran to proper locations, etc. Seems like a bad idea to rush this at the last minute, any thoughts??
Thanks!
Josh