My AV Loft!!!

[esdubu]

Just thought i'd start my own thread about the construction of my home cinema/boys room loft.
I'm a fair way along with the construction of it now but i've been taking photos as i've been going along.
Never would have thought of doing this if it wasn't for these forums! Here's a few pics from before i started proper construction.

[esdubu]

Unfortunately i haven't got any pictures of the work that was involved in lowering the floor by about 2 and a half feet. Now that was a big job!

[esdubu]

Some more pics of insulating the roof


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I had to make the rafters deeper to accomodate 75mm thick celotex insulation board and still leave the right gap behind them to let the roof breathe.

[cosmic023]

Great project esdubu, i wish i could have started with an empty shell for my attic cinema!

Sounds like you have great plans for your project, i'll look forward to the progress pics.

Cheers
Lee

[wingnut121]

this looks like a mint project, please keep us updated
and have you got any drawings/plans of the finnished lay out just so i can be noisy

[velvitjester]

has the floor been raised,joists strengthened?

Looks like it will be a nice room,looks big.

[esdubu]

Originally Posted by velvitjester

has the floor been raised,joists strengthened?

Looks like it will be a nice room,looks big.

Absolutely gutted the upstairs of my house, when i put the new joists in, basically got rid of the old ceiling joists as i wanted to lower the floor. Me and a mate spent a couple of hours up there kicking the old ceiling down into the upstairs bedrooms and bathroom, and removed 6 (i think) courses of brick from all upstairs walls. Then we put new joists 10x2 fixed to the wall plates with joist hangers and sat on the internal walls. Next we fixed the rafters to the new joists so my roof wouldn't slide off and finally got rid of the old ceiling joists. It was actually a lot more complicated and time consuming than i've made it sound!

If you look at the pictures above there is a line of plaster about 2 feet tall all around the bottom of the wall. That's where the old ceiling in the bedrooms came to.

This is the only photo i've got that'l show you what i mean. Unfortunately it's from a cameraphone.

[esdubu]

This is my bedroom floor after we kicked the old ceiling down. There was a suspended ceiling underneath it as well so that's 2 ceilings worth we had to "store" upstairs

[esdubu]

Originally Posted by wingnut121

this looks like a mint project, please keep us updated
and have you got any drawings/plans of the finnished lay out just so i can be noisy

Haven't got any drawings of the fininshed layout it's all in my head at the moment. It should be more or less finished in the next couple of weeks though so you won't have long to wait!!

[enablerbro1]

Originally Posted by esdubu

This is my bedroom floor after we kicked the old ceiling down. There was a suspended ceiling underneath it as well so that's 2 ceilings worth we had to "store" upstairs

Have you done a lot of this sort of thing because if I looked down and saw that lot I think I'd find it pretty dispiriting. Must be essential to keep what it will eventually look like in your mind during the early phases amongst the rubble.

Any more photos of the work so far?

[esdubu]

Never tried anything like this before! The missus wasn't too happy but i did all the loft floor as the first job before i renovated the whole house, so she's got an almost finished beautiful house now while i've had to wait 18 months to do my loft! If you think that's bad you wanted to see what we looked like after the ceiling came down. The loft was about 3 inches deep with black sooty dust. We looked like black and white minstrels!

I'm just in the process of organising my photos so i do have more but they're not sorted yet. I've literally just finished plasterboarding the walls in there just now so i'll be taking some more photos when i've had a shower.

[enablerbro1]

I love following these threads. All you need is Sarah Beeny and that chap off Grand Designs to crop occasionaly. More Sarah Beeny that the chap off Grand Designs.

[cjmilner]

Hi mate, looks like a similar project to mine, hope all goes well, keep us all posted on the updates

[esdubu]

Here's a few more pictures as promised

[esdubu]

Just realised in most of these threads people have listed what components they will eventually have going in these rooms so here goes....

Panasonic AE2000 Projector
Pioneer VSX-LX70 AV Receiver
Media PC
PS3 (For Bluray)
Toshiba EP10 (For HD-DVD)
Xbox 360
Freesat box (when they get around to releasing the PVR)
Cable Box (For movies and sports)
Kef 2005.3 Speakers
Self built DVD Server

The media pc will also double as my desktop PC as i will be using the room as my office as well as home cinema. Dual output graphics card should take care of that so i can switch between projector and 22" widescreen monitor