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Building a Home Theater & Listening Room [message #80957] Wed, 24 December 2014 21:16 Go to next message
hydrovac is currently offline  hydrovac
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Location: Hyderabad
Esquire
Hi all,

My wife finally parted with a portion of her terrace garden and let me build a home theater.

First off all I find myself very fortunate to build a room that can be dedicated to music listening and watching movies. The room will be 3.96 meters wide, 7.38 meters long and a height of 2.7 meters. So with a little more than 29 m2 it's not a big room at all.

We live in a duplex penthouse (5th & 6th floors with terrace rights). So, traditional construction methods are a bit difficult. I plan to take the prefab route.


Proposed HT Room area.


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Columns set and trusses on.


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Re: Building a Home Theater & Listening Room [message #80958 is a reply to message #80957] Fri, 26 December 2014 09:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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Man, that looks like it's going to be great! Keep us posted!

Re: Building a Home Theater & Listening Room [message #80959 is a reply to message #80958] Sat, 27 December 2014 11:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
hydrovac is currently offline  hydrovac
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Location: Hyderabad
Esquire
Thanks Wayne,

The progress in construction of prefab wall panels:


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Rear wall panels:


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Re: Building a Home Theater & Listening Room [message #81013 is a reply to message #80957] Sun, 11 January 2015 04:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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These pics are of the composite decking sheet being fixed.... in fact yesterday...the plasterers were skimming the walls and pouring the concrete slab....

I will add more photos as the work progress.

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Started laying electrical, speaker and signal cables. The cabling work is being carried out by a local guy and someone from my work giving him a hand.

To reduce hum and noise I want to install a dedicated line with only a single ground from the audio / home theater system to the electrical service panel. Don't want to attach anything other than the A/ V system to this special dedicated line.
Expecting the result to be noise and hum free power with a 'deep black background'.

By this stage of the project, I have already identified the following:
• Placement of all speakers
• Placement of A/V components
• Placement of video source
• Lighting needs
• Possible future enhancements
• Thermal Insulation & Acoustic Treatment

BTW I have provided a frame also... for supporting the screen.

I will try and post pics if there's interest... as soon as i work out how to do it...!!

I have all the kit I need already for this...mix of new and from old lounge... not top end by any means...but works for me...


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HT room exterior view from terrace:

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Re: Building a Home Theater & Listening Room [message #81015 is a reply to message #81013] Sun, 11 January 2015 18:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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Lookin' great!

Re: Building a Home Theater & Listening Room [message #81046 is a reply to message #80957] Tue, 27 January 2015 22:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
hydrovac is currently offline  hydrovac
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Esquire
Thanks Wayne,

Framing work in progress for rock wool slabs...

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Checking out my old screen...

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16:9 screen pulled down...

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Re: Building a Home Theater & Listening Room [message #81048 is a reply to message #81046] Thu, 29 January 2015 21:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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Makin' progress!

Re: Building a Home Theater & Listening Room [message #81065 is a reply to message #81048] Thu, 05 February 2015 11:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
hydrovac is currently offline  hydrovac
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Framing work completed and AV cabinet in place.... cabling almost done except one sub signal cable.

Got 20 Rock wool bags delivered yesterday.

There was a leak from one point of the slab joint side.... getting the pressure grouting done today.


Entry door to the theater on the left:

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Bags containing Rock wool slabs:

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AV cabinet built into the window:

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Ceiling panels getting ready:

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Insulation panels being fixed:

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Re: Building a Home Theater & Listening Room [message #81156 is a reply to message #81065] Thu, 19 February 2015 04:45 Go to previous message
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Esquire
Paneling of rock wool frames almost done:

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Steel trusses being enclosed in wooden beams:

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