Basement Project: Day 6

 Completed framing / sofit (SP?) construction for the doorway, we choose to do the hard stuff first so the last part will go super fast. ....I hope.

 We had to add 16" centers in the rafters for the wall along the bar area.

  Got a small stretch of wall done, mostly all our time was poured into framing the rest of the I-Beam. If I never have to drill into whatever steel that is again for the rest of my life it will be OK with me.

 Had to use 2x6's where the wall will be two sided...

The rest of the wall to come...thats all for that night.

*Note up until now, all of these 'days' have been about 630pm until 1030-11pm after work, Day 7 is our first saturday of 8am-6pm straight work, and you'll be able to see the difference I'd wager...

Basement Project Day 5: Delivery

THE DELIVERY

 Very studly...

 Drop cieling apparatus.

 Drywall.

 R14 Ceiling Tile for acoustics.

 More drop ceiling parts.

Basement Project: Day 4

Day 4 update!

  Minor work done, but the floor is complete!, shot of the extra pieces left over for soffiting.

Shot of the last two floor pieces to be laid...

 Onto the door and frame, the site of some our best craftsmanship yet! We started to finish up the stud walls and frame the door, we also cut out the bottom 2x4 for the doorway and started framing the cieling drywall supports.

 Oh yeah, spot on.

 Just look at those joints.

 All starting to come together now, we might just get done in time for Halloween afterall....any takers on that bet?

 Some of the technical wizardry I plan on installing:Netgear 24 Port 10/100/1000 switch & 24 port cat6 patch panel.

 My 3ft 2 post wall mount rack, and box of leviton faceplates and ports.

Leviton Jacks and plates upclose, from left to right: cat6 connector, quad plate, positive speaker connector, ground speaker connector.

Basement Project: Day 2 & 3

 Finishing up the floor...

 The completed wall with studs.

 Future wine cellar and pantry to cover up water main entry point.

 This wall will house the 110" movie screen and we will wall in the window, to the left will be a closet to hide the sump pump and AV equipment.

 The work area and framing up the doorway to the unfinished side, it took us a while to figure out how to hang the 2x4 from the I-beam. But I think that will frame up nicely down the length of the wall. We still haven't decided if we are going to drywall and soffit that small doorway or use a few drop ceiling tiles....

 Our messy laundry area.

 The 36" doorway. 

 The site of the future office and computing area. Will have 10, 10/100/1000 ports, about 7 computers and built in desks, on the opposite side of the wall in the unfinished side a 3ft rack that will house the 24port switch, cable modem, router, media server, patch panel, etc. I got 1000ft cat6, 24 port patch panel, 24 port netgear switch, 24 1ft cat6 patch cables at newegg for under $400. I will be using leviton quad face plates for the cat6, video, and speaker wire connections.

 The Beautiful Sarah

Basement Project Day 1

MONDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2006

I love watching projects grow through pictures so I thought I'd share my latest project, finishing the basement. I plan to add a home theater, bar area, and small office about 750sq ft.

Here are my rough plans:

For starters, my dad and I noticed the entire stair case was nearly 3 inches crooked to the right from top to bottom. To fix this we screwed together two 2x4's and placed a car jack horrizontally against the cement wall and the stairs. After a few pumps the whole staircase moved and we re-secured it with cement screws into the foundation.

 Me, laughing at the ridiculousness of the stairs.

  The rest of the basement as yet to be conquered.

 I am using [URL=http://www.systemplaton.com/flooringprotection.html]platon[/URL] flooring system for my basement for two reasons: My dads basement has a raised floor and he almost never has to heat it in the winter, and in case of water damage it will protect the floor to a certain extent. 

 This stuff goes in so easy, cuts easy and the only bad part is you have to caulk the seams with some butyl rubber, other than that its a super cheap and awesome alternative to sytrafoam based or heating element based raise floors. The 3/4" tong and groove OSB goes right on top and the rest of the walls on top of that, its a free floating system designed to permit airflow. ~ $300 for my application

 After we got the stairs figured out, we put in a treated 2x4 to put our raise floor up against.

 Our tools and the like, stored in the unfinished side.

Day 1: Comes to a close.