Cedar Creek Cinema II

[Rodny Alvarez]

It will be the last big thing I do I hope.

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

Sonnie wrote:

You are up late.

Yup - working nights this week...

Yeah... I think that will end up being too small and it looks like Chelsea may never leave the house. She's home grown and rooted for some reason...

Ya might want to increase her dowry - hee hee...

It will be the last big thing I do I hope.

I'm with Rodny - Maybe if you were 68 or something, but you're to young to be talking like that!

I do find this a bit curious, since you told us when you tore out the other one that you are losing interest in movies these days. Change of heart, I guess?

You doing the work yourself? I mean, you and Rodny?

Hopefully this time you'll stick in a window unit? Maybe some lighting bright enough to read the spines of DVDs?

Regards,
Wayne

[Sonnie]

You know... I didn't realize just how much I would miss it after I took it out. Having built the sub and setting everything up for the great room, I really miss it. I also can't get the same bass I had in the HT room. Too many things rattling... and the wife is complaining, etc., etc. It's mainly an excuse to do it right and have some fun.

Funny you mention Rodny... another Rodny who has horses on our property and does framing is planning to help me frame it up.

I don't imagine there will be any window unit... it will be a separate central unit, probably a one ton unit.

[Sonnie]

Well... BIG time changes!!!

Angie decided she did not really want our back yard space taken up by the addition and I told her the only other alternative was going to be taking the entire garage. She said she thinks she would rather do that and build on a carport for the cars, which will be a whole lot less expensive. No slab to have to pour... it is already there, even for the carport. No bricking to do... less overall construction work. This should save us a good $10-12,000. Figuring the savings even made us both agree the garage is the ticket. So back to the garage we go, but a LOT different than before. It will be larger and it will have its own 1.5 ton central heating and cooling unit. I will wall off and do my best to seal off the attic space above the garage to help with the low base, which was never that bad... it sounded like distant thunder on movies like WOTW... and then only during the extreme bass scenes. However, if I want to do an IB system, I probably need to seal it off with a 6" wall and insulate it really well. We were already going to insulate the entire attic after having our duct work completely overhauled. I'll seal it and install a solid door, which should help a good bit.

The biggest drawback to this is I am limited on the size. 8.5' height is all I will get after carpet and another layer of sheetrock on the ceiling. It will only be about 7.5' high for the 10' of riser in the rear. The width can range from 17' minimum to as much as 18.5' maximum... then the depth can be 23', 23.5' or 24'. 23' is the minimum I can tolerate with my plans and the garage is only 24' wide... so that has to be the max. The drawing below show 8.5' x 18' x 24', but I figure I will need to adjust that as best I can for room modes. Not much to work with, but this will definitely help monetarily and I might can spend a bit more on my front speakers.

The other minor drawback is I will have to build an equipment cabinet, but that is not a biggie because I have a lot more room to work with than I did with our previous dedicated HT room. This will get done much quicker than I expected now.

[thewire]

I was trying to convince my family we needed to park under the theater during contruction. Congrats on having a better space to work with!

[Sonnie]

It actually looks like 18 x 24 x 8.5 might be my best bet... if I am reading these right.






18 x 23 x 8.5 might even be a touch better.

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

I don't imagine there will be any window unit... it will be a separate central unit, probably a one ton unit.

What? I thought window units were the kind of air conditioning hillbillies used! (If they even had air conditioning!)

It will be larger and it will have its own 1.5 ton central heating and cooling unit.

Wow - do they even make window units that big?

Have you talked to an AC guy? I've always heard from them that the "rule of thumb" is one ton for every 500 sq. ft., and you have less than 400. Not to mention, with the double- and triple-sheetrocked staggerd stud walls packed full on insulation, air tight room, etc. - you'll get a lot more mileage out of the AC than you would normally.

Regards,
Wayne

[robbo266317]

Nice Job! Has the head stopped spinning?

I'm sure you're going to be happy with that.

[Sonnie]

What can I say... a modernized hillbilly?

The biggest thing is cooling with all that hot equipment running for several hours.

The minimum unit size is 1.5 ton... or so I am told. $3200 installed with 4 air vents and a return air duct.

EDIT... my other HAC guy quoted me $2600 with 6 vents... 4 in the HT room and 2 in the hallway entrance.

[Sonnie]

robbo266317 wrote:

Nice Job! Has the head stopped spinning?

I'm sure you're going to be happy with that.

I am mentally spent. To tell you have bad it has been... I went to the fitness center and was doing my normal job of 25 minutes. Before I knew it, it was over. It only seemed like I had been jogging for about 10 minutes and I was ready to go another 25. That excitement adrenaline will crank you up. I wonder if I will get any sleep tonight.