Pugs New Cinema Build (Double Garage Conversion)

[pugheaven]

Well, the time has come to start doing the build, so here we go. Owned the house for 8 years with the thoughts of always converting the double garage. However, the garage is under our living room of the same size (21ft x 18ft)... and the house is technically on 3 levels... so it's took some thought as we will be creating stairs coming down from the hallway archway down to the cinema room. Bear in mind, it's a cinema room BUT I don't want it clinical like a living room hence I won't be hiding speakers and things like this, it's literally converting a room into a nice place to be... i.e. you can just go and watch some general TV and it's not literally used for cinema purposes.

We've got a £10k budget for all the work and also all the parts of which I've pretty much got all the bits as follows:

• Denon AVXR6400H 11.2 Amp that will be configured 7.1.4
• Sony UBP-X800 4k UHD Player
• Sony VPL-VW320ES (existing and will be moved to the cinema room)
• Q Acoustics 3050 Front Pair, 3020 x 4 Side/Rear Surrounds, 3090C Centre Speaker, 3070S Sub and 4 x Cambridge Audio Minx12's for the Atmos speakers, replaced these with Q Acoustics QI65S which I'll dye the white covers to black, so I'll be selling the Cabridge Audios now.
• QED Speaker Cable
• Duronic 120" Fixed Screen

Various other blocks, wall blocks, fittings etc for fitting speakers into walls using banana plugs of which I'll detail as we go along, but these are the basics.

So, lets get the pre photos up and also, start showing some progress. Just to give indications of times, I started this around 7th September 2020 and the deadline for completion and then profesional calibration is 30th November 2020!

So, first thing was empty the whole garage, one 8 tonne building skip full later that was done... then was getting all the crap like empty boxes etc out of there... more work than I thought and taking things I wanted to keep upto storage.... so without further ado, lets get this thread started@

There is the layout of the house, it'll technically be 3 levels when this room is done...

BEFORE ANY CHANGES (but empty garage lol):

In the picture above, the 120" screen will be positioned in the middle of those windows.

The two garage doors pictured will be removed and replaced with french door patio doors.

 

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Then, first things first get all the old crap plasterboard from the ceiling down and replace with building reg fireboard and insulation.

 

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Then the biggest job of all this was to pull part of the wall down that would be the entry to the room from higher up in the hallway:

 

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Then put the new ceiling in with the wires in for the ceiling speakers...

 

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And now the floating floors is going in...

 

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Well work finished for today so this is now with the floor frame not far off now, should be finished tomorrow...

 

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Well, majority of the floor now in, should be finished tomorrow night, then we need to get the seats out from the container and measure up for the rear stage... here's the progress over the weekend:

 

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Interesting, looks like a fairly modern build so insulation shouldn't be too tricky.

Is the garage at the side of the house or are you just far back from the road?

Hi matey, no it's under our living room, so the living room is above it, it's hard to explain but our house with this is 4 levels... this level, then hallway and kitchen, then living room then the upstairs bedrooms etc... House was built in 1984 believe it or not so no spring chicken

 

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So, updates for work now. We had to work out how big the stage will be and to design it... so, we're going a two stage... errr... stage hahaha...

1). The main stage is rectangular as can be seen and this will house the 3 seater curved leather lovelyness, this will be around 7" above the main completed floor that you can see...

2). There will then be a "step" angled around this main rectangle so this won't be such a drop off... you can kinda see where this will be in the first and 2nd pictures that piece of wood on the floor that points towards the bottom right of the garage door...

So, below pictures depict where the rear chair will be and also, the main 7" stage will be... this will lead to the main stair case entry... where the silver level is on the floor will be a 2 seater recliner that will be surrounded by the small step stage from 2).

 

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So nearly finished the first stage for the rear seats... need some more flooring tomorrow and to route the edges so it's smooth for carpetting later down the line... once this is done, I'll build the step down sections and then it's the stairs this week... can't wait now as it's coming together nicely...

 

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So the extending of the garage doors started today... where they have to be raised to fit standard french doors and to also ensure that the tops match the end window top height, so here we go, brace yourself lol.

So, the lintel will be moving UP 3 courses up... this will mean I have on both of these gaps now at 2140mm wide x 2065mm high (the windows ordered are 2130mm x 2055mm)... hopefully they'll be here in the next 2 weeks.... so, all prep work to ensure holes all setup. Any bricks taken out will be to build a two course down the bottom as well which means any amendments won't be noticable because exactly the same bricks will be used (house was build 1984 so, woouldn't be able to match the bricks 100%), so reuse old bricks... great idea lol

 

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Well, it's now raised and you can see the difference with the left nigh on finished compared to the right hand one that's yet to be done.

Now raised ready for the new French doors. you can see how much different it now is... so its gone up 3 courses of brick and now aligns with the side windows

 

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Well today works finished until tomorrow and the left hand garage replacement opening is night on finished and ready to raise the right hand opening now... reckon it'll all be finished by tomorrow and can get back on the final bits of stage and the stairs...

 

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Its' this picture that really shows the difference in height now...

 

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Looking good! - are you going to do one of the fibre optic ceilings, or just stick with downlights (can see these on the images).

cheers man. Nope, I was going to, but a lot do that... so, spot lights for now in the ceiling, with ceiling speakers. then once all this is in, I'll build cinema coving so that I can give the impressesion of a sunken ceiling but I can do this later and put lighting in it. So, for now, the celing will be plain as trying to sstick to the 10k budget as possible and trust me mnate, you could spend a friggin fortune on this hahaha..

Looks great - Seems you have given some thought to acoustics. Would love a garage to do exactly the same. Now i'm getting older with more time to chill out this would be right up my street. Looking forward to the finished result!.

Cheers once again... yeah it's been a dream this since I moved into this house in 2012... and the missus finally caved in so...

There's going to be some special touches as well that i don't wanna spoil yet until it's closer to completion in November, however, hoping you like them. Right now, this is all more the hard work.... stairs and staging should be done so, there will be a load more pictures later today and this weekend! Glad people are enjoying and hope it gives people some ideas of their own. Sure I'll make some mistakes, but I'll get there hahaha

 

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Well todays work is now complete... the door openings are now complete after some stirling work over the past 3 days. Roll on tomorrow lol... back to the stages and staircase...

 

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So, this is the underlay and carpet purchased today and booked in for fitting Friday 27th November...

Underlay is the Wonder carpet undelay with the following spec:

• Made from recycled PU foam
• 9mm thick- suitable for all areas of the home
• Luxury domestic usage for opulent underfoot comfort
• 2.8 TOG approx
  
• 41db sound reduction

The carpet I went for is "Nantucket - Saxony Carpet" in dark grey with highlights... however, the picture really actually looks nothing like the carpet is hahaha as this is off their website lol.

• Pile Height (15mm)
• Total Thickness (17mm)17
• Tog Rating = 1.6
• DB Rating = 28
• Wear Guarantee Years 10

 

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I'm not jealous. You're jealous.

This is awesome

Hahaha, cheers man appreciated. First time doing this, well into my hifi etc etc, however, never done anything on this scale and we've had problems but to be expected lol. Doing the stairs now out of the cinema, should be done today... hard work lol

 

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Gratuitous Speaker Shot hahaha... just unpacked them all in the living room... love them!