xar
Prominent Member
Hi all,
Long time lurker and home cinema fan, recent joiner and poster.
So after relocating our 2 year old to her new room right above the lounge, the home cinema has pretty much been relegated to the scrap heap in terms of getting to listen to it the way it should or getting the projector on. I have a monitor audio apex/Pioneer vsx-LX55 setup so this is most irritating.
So, I decided it was time to convert just over half of my detached double garage to a dedicated home cinema a few weeks back.
I got the floor built, the wood purchased for the walls and disaster struck. The wife found out and went ballistic. Now I was exactly hiding what I was building, but I wasn't advertising the fact either. Anyway, I was informed in no uncertain terms that there was no way were were converting half of OUR garage (our garage - she has been in in twice in 4 years!!!! The two time being when she offered "as much space as you want for as long as you want" to her sister to store her crap and supervising me loading said crap into MY garage where it remains to this day) to a home cinema. Great...
So I was at a loss what to do next. Leave the floor as was and use it for a gym/storage, or crack on and build an insulated and well lit room anyway? Decided on the latter with the view being that half would be my gym, the other being a tool storage/workshop area and the home cinema would just have to be forgotten about. As the room options developed, I realised that the storage shelves I was intending to move to the back of the room would host a projector and some speakers very nicely, and the other end wall was going to stay blank anyway for the weights bench/squat rack/gym floor area.
So, the idea for the secret home cinema formed. To all intents and purposes the room would be used for storage and work outs, but this doesn't mean it couldn't be wired for 7.1 plus a projector, and one of the things I am required to store in it is a double sofa...
So, I am still very much in build mode and definitely need some advice, but lets get onto the pics first then the questions:
External shot. The back half of the garage (perpendicular to the doors) will be the room. As you can see it is fully detached and at least 15-20 ft from any other property, but it is a quiet neighbourhood. The garage is double skinned but with no insulation.
Internal - wall 1
This wall separates the room from the remainder of the garage. Intention is OSB and fireboard on the outside, insulation and single plasterboard on the inside (query to follow on this):
Wall 2 - Rear wall - This is a potential problem wall as it is separated from the brick by about 5mm at the bottom but touches near the top (only for a few cms when the wall juts out). The blue bits are DPM over air bricks. My concern is that this is the only wall touching an external wall and needs special attention. Queries to follow...
Walls 3 and 4 - these were easy because they have a protruding brick support so I had to build them the depth of a brick plus a few mm from the external wall. Neither ends are touching the wall at all.
Floor - some shots as it was being build - think I made an error here as I used kingspan rather than acoustic insulation (this was because the floor was originally supposed to be 'floating' floorboards over the kingspan, but I didn't realise the slope was so bad so had to rebuild with wooden supports and jsut used what i had)
So thats it so far. Acoustic insulation and plasterboard due on monday, but I am having the following dilemma:
- I intended to simply double plasterboard the walls 2, 3, 4 and single on wall 1 as it open into the garage, and a single on the ceiling joists (with insulation), but am now wondering if this will be enough? Had assumed that the degree of detachment and the separation from other properties would be enough but now not so sure.
Options and opinions sought:
1 - continue as is - will be good enough
2 - double up on wall 1 and ceiling will be ok
3 - option1 but add insulation to existing garage pitched roof also
4 - resilient bars needed on ceiling and wall 2
5 - double up all/some walls and use green glue
6 - something else
I am on a budget so looking for the least bang for my buck (see what i did there ). All comments, queries and opinions most welcome...!!!!
Long time lurker and home cinema fan, recent joiner and poster.
So after relocating our 2 year old to her new room right above the lounge, the home cinema has pretty much been relegated to the scrap heap in terms of getting to listen to it the way it should or getting the projector on. I have a monitor audio apex/Pioneer vsx-LX55 setup so this is most irritating.
So, I decided it was time to convert just over half of my detached double garage to a dedicated home cinema a few weeks back.
I got the floor built, the wood purchased for the walls and disaster struck. The wife found out and went ballistic. Now I was exactly hiding what I was building, but I wasn't advertising the fact either. Anyway, I was informed in no uncertain terms that there was no way were were converting half of OUR garage (our garage - she has been in in twice in 4 years!!!! The two time being when she offered "as much space as you want for as long as you want" to her sister to store her crap and supervising me loading said crap into MY garage where it remains to this day) to a home cinema. Great...
So I was at a loss what to do next. Leave the floor as was and use it for a gym/storage, or crack on and build an insulated and well lit room anyway? Decided on the latter with the view being that half would be my gym, the other being a tool storage/workshop area and the home cinema would just have to be forgotten about. As the room options developed, I realised that the storage shelves I was intending to move to the back of the room would host a projector and some speakers very nicely, and the other end wall was going to stay blank anyway for the weights bench/squat rack/gym floor area.
So, the idea for the secret home cinema formed. To all intents and purposes the room would be used for storage and work outs, but this doesn't mean it couldn't be wired for 7.1 plus a projector, and one of the things I am required to store in it is a double sofa...
So, I am still very much in build mode and definitely need some advice, but lets get onto the pics first then the questions:
External shot. The back half of the garage (perpendicular to the doors) will be the room. As you can see it is fully detached and at least 15-20 ft from any other property, but it is a quiet neighbourhood. The garage is double skinned but with no insulation.
Internal - wall 1
This wall separates the room from the remainder of the garage. Intention is OSB and fireboard on the outside, insulation and single plasterboard on the inside (query to follow on this):
Wall 2 - Rear wall - This is a potential problem wall as it is separated from the brick by about 5mm at the bottom but touches near the top (only for a few cms when the wall juts out). The blue bits are DPM over air bricks. My concern is that this is the only wall touching an external wall and needs special attention. Queries to follow...
Walls 3 and 4 - these were easy because they have a protruding brick support so I had to build them the depth of a brick plus a few mm from the external wall. Neither ends are touching the wall at all.
Floor - some shots as it was being build - think I made an error here as I used kingspan rather than acoustic insulation (this was because the floor was originally supposed to be 'floating' floorboards over the kingspan, but I didn't realise the slope was so bad so had to rebuild with wooden supports and jsut used what i had)
So thats it so far. Acoustic insulation and plasterboard due on monday, but I am having the following dilemma:
- I intended to simply double plasterboard the walls 2, 3, 4 and single on wall 1 as it open into the garage, and a single on the ceiling joists (with insulation), but am now wondering if this will be enough? Had assumed that the degree of detachment and the separation from other properties would be enough but now not so sure.
Options and opinions sought:
1 - continue as is - will be good enough
2 - double up on wall 1 and ceiling will be ok
3 - option1 but add insulation to existing garage pitched roof also
4 - resilient bars needed on ceiling and wall 2
5 - double up all/some walls and use green glue
6 - something else
I am on a budget so looking for the least bang for my buck (see what i did there ). All comments, queries and opinions most welcome...!!!!
