my dedicated av room

[dazm41]

well my new av room began last week with me and the brother in law doing the donkey work, knocking down the old lean too, breaking up the concreate floor which the last owner laid about a foot deep around the edge which was swine to get up.

after all the concreate up we started on doing the ground work for the floor and footings a hell of lot of soil came out well the we finished the footings mike the builder who is my brother in law aswell came round to see if everything was ok got the thumbs up. concrete came yesterday for the footings and materials for mike to get started which as done to day.will post more pictures.
the room size will be 5m x 4.5m

[dazm41]

here's just a few more pictures of the last few days, with mike laying a some bricks today.

[Lemon_Sherbert]

Good Luck with the project

[dazm41]

thanks lemon sherbert,builders arrived at 8 oclock which is always a good sign they will be moving the drains , pipes,and man hole , today or tommrow , i didnt like the idea of a man hole in the middle of the roomwill post more pictures soon. off to work today at 11.00 not back till 8.00,

[Eltee]

Blimey! Talk about starting from the ground up. Keep us updated and try not to get distracted by bright and shiny things - theres muck and graft to do before you can start plugging in HDMI cables! Good luck with the build mate

[dazm41]

thanks eltee, as i type been looking at speaker cable for the rears they are going to be wall mounted so from the onk up the wall throuh the roof space and back down the back wall with banna face plates i think, been on flee bay for rolls of speaker cable, i like the idea of the speaker face plates keep things nice and tidy for frnts and rears. the lcd can't make up my mind yet to wall mount it or on a stand. if i wall mount it will still need a stand for the rest of the kit.

[dazm41]

just a quick update builder mike has laid some more bricks today and it,s tacking shape all the pipes on the back wall are going to be moved to the left hand side of the kitchen window .still looking for some speaker cable for the rears for the fronts im going to get some Canare 4S11 4 core from mark grant cables .

[dazm41]

just another update builders finished for the weekend,putting the new drain in place for the move on monday delivery of hardcore ,but looking at the weather snowing here worksop,nottinghamshire can't see much being done on mondaywait and see . can anybody recomend some good rear speaker wire can't make my mind up .probably need about 25meter.

[dazm41]

just a few more pics and an update concrete has gone down today and all the drainage has been sorted out council man as been and given the ok.not a lot more can be done untill the concrete sets ,i noticed the metal strips that hold the bricks were they join the extension to the house sorry don't know what they are called. been looking on the net for speaker cable and trunking going to order soon still not decided on wall mount or stand . my seating postion will be about 4m from tv

[albriscoe]

Hi Daz

you`ve picked a great time to start building mate but I suppose you have to start sometime.

The clips are called crocodiles and just vertical wall ties depending where you live.

I`m suprised you started out of the ground with brickwork rather than block, was that a condition?

also are they gonna be dwarf walls or if not are you plastering over the brickwork.

Anyway too many questions mate sorry

keep it up and plenty of pics

cheers Al

[dazm41]

thanks albriscoe like you say you have to start some were, no its not a dwarf wall. it will be brick work all the way up,don't know why mike started with brick instead of block work.wish the weather would clear up though,like to say your thread was a fantastic read,1&2,

[yukichon]

Good luck with this , ill be keeping an eye on it , Al will always be able to give some sound advice mate and if i can help then just ask away

[dazm41]

at last the weather as cleared up today had a delivery of bricks sand & blocks very first thing. then the brikies arrived.first things first tea break have to keep them happy must say it's bitterly cold.it's nice to see bricks being layed its gives me some idea of what the space will be like or not.

[Quantas]

Its great to see things move forward, for me the outside seemed to be up in a blink of an eye, but the inside seemed to take an eternity. Good luck with your build.

[dazm41]

thanks quantas,the weathers not helping realy just itching to get started on the inside never been so excited about speaker cables will be posing some more photos later on .