jaydoc's Basement build thread - Blu-ray Forum

jaydoc24 · 02-14-2010, 01:03 AM

It has been a long time coming as my wife and I bought our house 6 months ago. I have been a member for longer than that and vowed to make a thread to chronicle my progress. Well, I have been at it as time permits but you all know how one thing lead to another and end up doing more than what I initially intended. Here are pictures showing what we started with...

Okay, yeah...I'm not sure how to post pics inside a forum. I'll see what I need to do.

Mr. Joshua · 02-14-2010, 01:50 AM

I know you are excited. Keep us posted on the progress.

HAMP · 02-14-2010, 07:37 AM

Nice work....
We are in the process of getting a new home and hope to close in about a month.

I hope I can get started in about 6 months on my theater I would like to have in my basement.

I gotta make sure she is totally happy with the rest of the house before I can enjoy my own build.

jaydoc24 · 02-16-2010, 02:48 PM

Now to elaborate a little in regards to the process...

When my wife and I were looking at houses that was obviously my "deal breaker" requirement was to have enough space for a dedicated HT. She was fine with that and we purchased this house after looking at 15 others or so. When we moved in the previous owners had already framed and sheetrocked the exterior walls and part of the ceiling. He apparently was confused on how to frame in duct work and the steel I-beam and opted to leave those as is. The walls were also already mudded, sanded, and primed. Initially I was pretty excited about that for obvious reasons. The the fun truly began.

We brought in a plumber (my wife's cousin) and found out the sump pump was shot so we had to buy a new one and we went ahead and put a battery back-up system on it...not really a big deal, just $400 out of pocket. Then we brought in an electrician (a family friend) to install some can lights and switches and while he was working he noticed there were three spots on the walls with hairline cracks floor-to-ceiling in the sheetrock. The culprit, as it turned out, was just inexperience in working with sheetrock as the previous owner just hung it however it went up so there were sheetrock joints without and studs supporting them. They were essentially floating because he did not cut the sheetrock halfway through a stud. The joint was then held together with mud and the expected expansion and contraction had caused the small cracks.

I was not about to have that so I figured I would repair that by cutting out the bad sections, stud-to-stud and floor-to-ceiling, installing additional studs to the older ones and putting up a new section of drywall. After I cut the first hole in the wall we realized there was no insulation at all--just the stud wall and although he used treated 2x4's for the bottom plate (which is pretty standard), he used 2x3's for the actual studs rather than 2x4's (which is odd). Not necessarily wrong, mind you, but unconventional to say the least and I can work with that. After we started adding all these little things up in our head--sump pump not working, the sheetrock job, suspect mudding in some areas, no insulation, etc.--we decided to go ahead and take off all the existing sheetrock to make sure there were no other surprises and to do things correctly rather than putting a Band-Aid on it.

Now I have framed in the ductwork and the I-Beams (and even built a nice little cubby in the framework for a projector, eventually). I have added new framing to some exterior walls and if I knew anything about Photoshop, I'd show you all more of what I mean as far as the new exterior walls. Also, due to a timely episode of Holmes on Homes, I have framed a finished are for under the stairs for the eventual kiddies. I have put up the green mold-resistant sheetrock in the sump pump room and am ready to begin insulating the exterior walls. Once those are insulated with R-13 unfaced batts of insulation, I will install a 4-mil vapor barrier and than will be ready to sheetrock the walls. I will obviously finished sheetrocking the ceiling first as is standard order of operations. I plan to update with pics as progress happens. Thanks for following and I hope you enjoy this process with me.

NorCo_1806 · 02-16-2010, 03:16 PM

Here's photo one:
***edit*** removed picture, it was huge and is now elsewhere

and of course, you're running wires (electric & audio/video) before you drywall everything, right??

jaydoc24 · 02-16-2010, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NorCo_1806

Here's photo one:

Okay, so once I post the pic where it has to be clicked to be seen, then I can imbed them with this code? Thanks for the help, I'll try the others.

02-16-2010, 03:16 PM	#5
NorCo_1806 Blu-ray Samurai Top ranked HT gallery Member since:Aug 2009 Location:Colorado Home Theater Gallery:41 Blu-ray collection:465 DVD collection:94 Trading Score:1	Here's photo one: *edit* removed picture, it was huge and is now elsewhere and of course, you're running wires (electric & audio/video) before you drywall everything, right?? Last edited by NorCo_1806; 02-17-2010 at 12:41 PM.

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02-14-2010, 01:50 AM	#2
Mr. Joshua Blu-ray Guru Member since:May 2007 Home Theater Gallery:6 Blu-ray collection:153	I know you are excited. Keep us posted on the progress.

02-14-2010, 07:37 AM	#3
HAMP Banned Top contributor Member since:Oct 2007 Location:Michigan Home Theater Gallery:13 Blu-ray collection:272 Trading Score:1	Nice work.... We are in the process of getting a new home and hope to close in about a month. I hope I can get started in about 6 months on my theater I would like to have in my basement. I gotta make sure she is totally happy with the rest of the house before I can enjoy my own build.

02-16-2010, 02:48 PM	#4
jaydoc24 Active Member Member since:Jan 2008 Home Theater Gallery:12 Blu-ray collection:142	Now to elaborate a little in regards to the process... When my wife and I were looking at houses that was obviously my "deal breaker" requirement was to have enough space for a dedicated HT. She was fine with that and we purchased this house after looking at 15 others or so. When we moved in the previous owners had already framed and sheetrocked the exterior walls and part of the ceiling. He apparently was confused on how to frame in duct work and the steel I-beam and opted to leave those as is. The walls were also already mudded, sanded, and primed. Initially I was pretty excited about that for obvious reasons. The the fun truly began. We brought in a plumber (my wife's cousin) and found out the sump pump was shot so we had to buy a new one and we went ahead and put a battery back-up system on it...not really a big deal, just $400 out of pocket. Then we brought in an electrician (a family friend) to install some can lights and switches and while he was working he noticed there were three spots on the walls with hairline cracks floor-to-ceiling in the sheetrock. The culprit, as it turned out, was just inexperience in working with sheetrock as the previous owner just hung it however it went up so there were sheetrock joints without and studs supporting them. They were essentially floating because he did not cut the sheetrock halfway through a stud. The joint was then held together with mud and the expected expansion and contraction had caused the small cracks. I was not about to have that so I figured I would repair that by cutting out the bad sections, stud-to-stud and floor-to-ceiling, installing additional studs to the older ones and putting up a new section of drywall. After I cut the first hole in the wall we realized there was no insulation at all--just the stud wall and although he used treated 2x4's for the bottom plate (which is pretty standard), he used 2x3's for the actual studs rather than 2x4's (which is odd). Not necessarily wrong, mind you, but unconventional to say the least and I can work with that. After we started adding all these little things up in our head--sump pump not working, the sheetrock job, suspect mudding in some areas, no insulation, etc.--we decided to go ahead and take off all the existing sheetrock to make sure there were no other surprises and to do things correctly rather than putting a Band-Aid on it. Now I have framed in the ductwork and the I-Beams (and even built a nice little cubby in the framework for a projector, eventually). I have added new framing to some exterior walls and if I knew anything about Photoshop, I'd show you all more of what I mean as far as the new exterior walls. Also, due to a timely episode of Holmes on Homes, I have framed a finished are for under the stairs for the eventual kiddies. I have put up the green mold-resistant sheetrock in the sump pump room and am ready to begin insulating the exterior walls. Once those are insulated with R-13 unfaced batts of insulation, I will install a 4-mil vapor barrier and than will be ready to sheetrock the walls. I will obviously finished sheetrocking the ceiling first as is standard order of operations. I plan to update with pics as progress happens. Thanks for following and I hope you enjoy this process with me.

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