Cedar Creek Cinema II

**jdeanmc** · **03-12-09, 11:44 AM**

come on,where are the updates?
Ive just added can lights,ir dimmer for remote and got a new blu ray player,now im about to redo all my cables(like the look of the belkins from your post)
Now my wife is starting to think im obsessing again!!!i need to show her your progress to get some heat off of me

"see honey,im not that bad. look how far this guys going"

**Sonnie** · **03-12-09, 12:14 PM**

lol... It won't be too much longer and I'll have some. It has really been slow going lately... mostly wiring and other little things. I have too many other things going on too.

**Sonnie** · **03-22-09, 08:25 AM**

More progress on the carport... which is a requirement since the former garage is no more...

Then for the HT room... I worked on this riser for way too long...

Of course there has been much more done... I just need to take more photos. Hopefully I can do that later today and get more updated shots tonight.

**Wayne A. Pflughaupt** · **03-22-09, 12:18 PM**

Shoot - slap some walls on the carport and you'll have a garage!

Regards,
Wayne

**Sonnie** · **03-23-09, 12:03 PM**

That may come to a reality sooner or later, although I hope not. The brick hardly ever matches after the initial bricking of the house... and another $3000 or so.

**Sonnie** · **03-28-09, 11:04 PM**

The insulation is done...

And all the sheetrock is now on the ceiling, thanks to the help I had, who was not much of a conservationist...

That Green Glue is the stickiest stuff I have ever worked with... DO NOT get it on your hands. It won't go away without some serious scrubbing.

**Mike Cason** · **04-02-09, 09:14 PM**

Hey Sonnie,

If you continue to have some sagging problems, you might get with a local carpenter and ask him about installing some "Saddle lam beams" or BCIs, They are both engineered beams, the BCI being the cheapest and easiest to handle. You would have to cut a hole in the gable end and pull them in that way. A good carpenter should be able to answer those questions. I built a two story home with a two story garage and we went with the BCI construction and the house is very tight. By the way, truss construction is great! You have just added a bit of extra weight the ceiling wasn't designed for.

I read in an earlier post you were in need of some Lazy Boy recliners. I've got 6 of them with your DNA still on them and I'll give them to you for free but the shipping might be quite expensive.

Looking forward to delivering them and seeing your progress!

Mike

**Sonnie** · **04-02-09, 10:31 PM**

A step ahead of you...

I added a pair of LVL beams (screwed together) from center of each wall, both ends supported with reinforced wall studs (6 studs stack side by side). The LVL runs about 4 inches above the ceiling joist of the truss system, with each joist attached to the LVL, as well as a support brace run from the top of the LVL to the top center ridge of the truss system. IOWs... super duper reinforced.

I opted for the Berkline motorized recliners from Roman this time around. Already paid a 50% deposit. I only managed to get about a fourth of those paid for with the money from that guy that ripped me off when he bought my La-z-boy recliners.

**Mike Cason** · **04-03-09, 07:23 AM**

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Sonnie wrote:

A step ahead of you...

I added a pair of LVL beams (screwed together) from center of each wall, both ends supported with reinforced wall studs (6 studs stack side by side). The LVL runs about 4 inches above the ceiling joist of the truss system, with each joist attached to the LVL, as well as a support brace run from the top of the LVL to the top center ridge of the truss system. IOWs... super duper reinforced. That's a great way to do it!
I opted for the Berkline motorized recliners from Roman this time around. Already paid a 50% deposit. I only managed to get about a fourth of those paid for with the money from that guy that ripped me off when he bought my La-z-boy recliners.

That con artist must have been from Texas!

Your project is looking great! Only because we're friends, I'm going to send my buddy over to show you some fine speakers at a bargain price. Ya can't miss him 'cause he'll be driving a white van; leftover stock from a previous install....

Mike

**Sonnie** · **04-03-09, 10:49 AM**

Man... I thought I had bought all of those up already. There are more?

**Sonnie** · **04-04-09, 11:03 PM**

Worked all day today in the new HT room and got all the plywood up... now it is time to finish the sheetrock.

Here are a few shots of the new carport (the post are still to be painted). You can follow the entrance all the way into the HT room.

**Funkmonkey** · **04-12-09, 04:29 PM**

Holy cow! what a great build. Makes me jealous not to have a house that I can build additions/conversions to accommodate my obsession! I'm looking forward to seeing pics as the finish work gets done. Looks great Sonnie

**Sonnie** · **04-12-09, 10:34 PM**

Thanks Greg... I appreciate it.

I finished up the sheetrock yesterday and a good buddy painter friend of mine is going to do the mudding for me. He is a pro at that stuff... which I would mess it up really bad if I touched it.

I got both doors installed, which went much smoother than I anticipated.

This afternoon I worked on adding some bracing support to the riser and almost got that finished. It is much more solid now.

I hope to get it finished and get the stage going on Wednesday.

**Sonnie** · **05-24-09, 10:02 PM**

Man... has this been some serious work!

They started on the carpet on Thursday and still did not get finished after leaving at about 7pm on Saturday. These guys are meticulous with the upholstering and trim work on the riser. They spent a good 4-5 hours just making the bends on the corners. They spent an entire day just tiling the steps from the entrance to the house and the entrance pad. They have basically spared nothing in perfection. They should finish up tomorrow. Then I will still have to install the baseboard and touch up things a bit.

I will pick up the equipment cabinet tomorrow and will still have to paint the final coat on it.

I finished up building the other Pulse sub today and got the first primer coat on it... as well as got the first texture coat on the first Pulse sub. I hope to finish both of them up tomorrow if all goes well.

All the equipment is in the room in boxes on the stage that has already been carpeted. I rented a U-haul trailer to move it from the office to the house.

If all goes well I will hopefully start hooking things up this next weekend. All in all I am still probably a couple of weeks away from grand opening, but it is getting closer.

**slim2fattycake** · **06-02-09, 12:23 PM**

Wow. This makes my home theater set-up feel so little. lol. Good job.

**Sonnie** · **06-13-09, 01:35 AM**

It's all done now! Here!

**F1 fan** · **06-14-09, 02:36 PM**

Now thats a beauty HT.Congrats.

**Andysu** · **07-30-09, 04:03 PM**

Quote:

Sonnie wrote:

More progress on the carport... which is a requirement since the former garage is no more...

Then for the HT room... I worked on this riser for way too long...

Of course there has been much more done... I just need to take more photos. Hopefully I can do that later today and get more updated shots tonight.

Now this is what caught my eye every impressive.

I was thinking more or less a long the same lines as this about month ago. I have to spare JBL sub bass drivers and was thinking of knocking up base floor sub flooring for the back part of the room. Only my idea is different, thou I like what you’ve constructed here.

It’s so irresistibly tempting and cheap to build. How does it perform does it meet your expectations or is it still early days as of yet because I don’t see a final construction done and up and running final picture?

I was thinking of having the enclosures fixed to base platform with sub bass driver facing down into the platform and the port somewhere on the outside the enclosure. But I rather like your approach with the ports facing into the room.

Timber doesn’t cost much rough timber that is. I have to spare subs only need sub flooring two enclosures made-up and some tubing for the ports and lots of sweaty t-shirts to change as well.

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