New in wall system

[stevelup]

Hi Folks,

We moved house a little over a year ago and whilst the new house is much bigger than the old one, the cinema room is much smaller.

With this in mind, I decided the best thing to do was to go for in wall speakers to maximise the amount of space in the room.

Full size images can be found here.

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This is the back of the room which will eventually house a 6ft x 2ft x 2ft marine aquarium. This will be open on both sides so it will be viewable from both the kitchen and living room.


Old wall coming down.


Done...


These are the supports for the aquarium.


The front of the room... Our lovely feature fireplace. I started dismantling this carefully from the top as you can see. I then discovered that there was nothing actually holding the thing up apart from good luck...




... so I decided brute force was the answer...


... CRASH ... That was fun!


Cutting holes in the ceiling for cables and projection screen.




There used to be a floor standing boiler in the kitchen. This hole will become the video rack housing the source equipment and AV amplifier. There is another similar hole in the kitchen which is housing the audio / network equipment.


Big hole in the wall for a Lutron Grafik Eye 3103


Power and audio for the subwoofer


Screen test...


Cables (not the most exciting picture I know...)


Another shot of the AV rack location.


Cables hanging ready...

[stevelup]

Equipment specification

Audio - Main Room

Amplifier: Onkyo SR-705
Left/Centre/Right: B&W CWM-LCR7's
SL/SBL/SBR/SR: B&W CCM-626
Subwoofer: Paradigm PS1000

Cable is all 2.5mm Van Damme pro install cable

Video

Plasma: Panasonic 42PS9
Projector: Sanyo PLV-Z5
Screen: Da Lite 2.4M wide
DVD: Toshiba HD-EP30
TV: Virgin Media V+
Media Player: Apple TV
Consoles: Xbox 360 and Wii

Multiroom Audio

Kitchen: 2 x B&W LM1's + Yamaha YST-80 Sub
Conservatory: 2 x B&W LM1's
Bathrooms: 1 x B&W CCM-636 each
Garden: 1 x B&W WM-4
Amplfication: 1 x Rotel RMB-985 + 1 x Kenwood KA5020
Zone Control: Not sure yet...


Plasterer is in on the 26th so I'll be spending this week and the forthcoming weekend doing all the studwork and plasterboard.

I'll update the thread at the weekend!

Steve

[albriscoe]

Thats all looking great Steve, you seem to know what your doing so I won`t interfere with advice mate .

keep us well fed with pics as you go along

cheers Allan

[Daddy k]

looking forward to the completed pictures

[stevelup]

Originally Posted by albriscoe

Thats all looking great Steve, you seem to know what your doing so I won`t interfere with advice mate .

My god - I've just read your thread. Amazing stuff.

Steve

[Gordie]

Hi Steve

Looking good mate. Can't wait for more pictures - especially the aquarium. I miss our tropical tank, but it was too much work - i'd imaging the marine tank is even more up-keep.

Gordie

[stevelup]

Thanks - I'll be sure to keep this thread updated.

The tank won't be happening until next year as I've run out of money. We've been renovating the whole house and I've still got the downstairs bathroom to complete yet.

I doubt I'll touch the tank until the last drop of paint has dried everywhere else

Allan's thread has made me feel really guilty about the shabbily slow progress I've made over the past year!

Steve

[stevelup]

Hi

Small update...

Got the framework up on the wall. This is going to house the LCR6 speakers and the plasma display (flush mounted).



Close up of the left speaker mounting...



.. and the centre.

[Sofa-loafer]

stevelup, Keep up the good work... its starting to come together nicely.

Can I ask, what kind of ambient/room lighting are you going to use?

[stevelup]

Hi

Standard halogen downlighters on two zones.

The third zone will be cold cathode neon behind the floating wall.

I've already used it in the kitchen and prefer it to the ropelight stuff. It's more expensive though but...





Steve

[suniil]

nice one stevelup. can see quick progress made! excellent

[Sofa-loafer]

Thanks...

I know the name says it all (cold cathode neon) but I'll ask nonetheless.. how much heat does this generate? Its it cold to the touch?

The reason I ask is I'm looking for a lighting system that provides a very smooth/even spread of light for behind an LCD I'm about to buy. I've seen the 'light-sticks' but I'm not sure that's a route I want to go down.

Got any links to your supplier?

[stevelup]

Hi

No, it's not cold funnily enough! The 'cold cathode' refers to the fact that there are no heaters at the end of the tubes like you would have in a fluorescent tube.

They run warm to the touch but not uncomfortably so - you could hold a tube even after it had been on for hours at full brightness.

Supplier is CCS Neon in Leeds.

Steve

[albriscoe]

Originally Posted by stevelup

Allan's thread has made me feel really guilty about the shabbily slow progress I've made over the past year!

Steve

Don`t be daft mate I`m sure your doing it as fast as the money allows, luckily my pot was full from the sale of our last house which is just as well as it would take me years.

Carry on Steve you`re doing a great job

Allan

[stevelup]

No, it's my tardiness that has caused the problems. The money has only run out because I have taken so long to spend it!

Little bit here, little bit there and the pot gets ever smaller week by week even though no significant progress has been made.

The kitchen was a killer though - it took a huge amount of effort and went massively over budget.

Myself and my wife have done everything ourselves apart from the plastering so there is some satisfaction in that. It's really quite difficult when you only have evenings and weekends to work on it.

Steve