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agrikk
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(Since this is a worklog and while not a casemod, it's a "room mod" so I hope moderators will cut me some latitude. 
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I recently converted our unfinished basement into an entertainment room. I did all of the work except for the taping and spackling the drywall since I can't get my mud-work even. It took me FOR-EV-ER, but was way cheaper than having electricians and general contractors and painters come in to do it.
Here's what my area looked like originally:
An older pic:
Sizing up my new work area to see if three monitors would actually fit in the corner:
The area in the crawlspace where my cabinet will be going:
I can't find the picures of the process here, but here's my gear:
Dell PowerConnect 5324 Switch
Sonicwall Pro 230 Firewall
Domain Controller (Supermicro Atom D525)
Dell LTO-3 Tape drive
Extra Gaming Rig (Athlon X2 5000+ 8GB RAM 2x500gb RAID-0, GTX275)
Storage Server (Athlon X4 640, 8GB RAM, 6x 1TB RAID-5, 2x500gb RAID-1)
APC SmartUPS-1000
APC SmartUPS-1000
Side shot:
Back Shot (Rat's nest. Meh):
Front with dust cover:
Oblique:
Rear with dust cover:
Patch Panel (not fully cabled) and dedicated circuit:
Manland getting framed:
The ground elevation:
More framing:
Knob and tube wiring. Hell yeah!
(The reason for the new dedicated circuit)
Wiring the room for cat-5 and electrical:
Cat-5, power and coax cable:
Insulation going in:
Moving the heater register.
There was a three way register here, blowing down from the ceiling and up into a bathroom and into a bedroom. I decided to split it up with a wye further up the duct so that sound wouldn't travel up the duct and into the bathroom and bedroom. This way sound will travel through the new register in the wall, back up the duct towards the heater and then back down another duct to the bathroom and bedroom.
Drywall going up
Insulation and finishing the walls and ceiling:
Dense, sound dampening insulation (made from recycled jeans!):
All taped and spackled:
New painted man-corner:
Painting:
DONE!
)I recently converted our unfinished basement into an entertainment room. I did all of the work except for the taping and spackling the drywall since I can't get my mud-work even. It took me FOR-EV-ER, but was way cheaper than having electricians and general contractors and painters come in to do it.
Here's what my area looked like originally:
An older pic:
Sizing up my new work area to see if three monitors would actually fit in the corner:
The area in the crawlspace where my cabinet will be going:
I can't find the picures of the process here, but here's my gear:
Dell PowerConnect 5324 Switch
Sonicwall Pro 230 Firewall
Domain Controller (Supermicro Atom D525)
Dell LTO-3 Tape drive
Extra Gaming Rig (Athlon X2 5000+ 8GB RAM 2x500gb RAID-0, GTX275)
Storage Server (Athlon X4 640, 8GB RAM, 6x 1TB RAID-5, 2x500gb RAID-1)
APC SmartUPS-1000
APC SmartUPS-1000
Side shot:
Back Shot (Rat's nest. Meh):
Front with dust cover:
Oblique:
Rear with dust cover:
Patch Panel (not fully cabled) and dedicated circuit:
Manland getting framed:
The ground elevation:
More framing:
Knob and tube wiring. Hell yeah!
(The reason for the new dedicated circuit)
Wiring the room for cat-5 and electrical:
Cat-5, power and coax cable:
Insulation going in:
Moving the heater register.
There was a three way register here, blowing down from the ceiling and up into a bathroom and into a bedroom. I decided to split it up with a wye further up the duct so that sound wouldn't travel up the duct and into the bathroom and bedroom. This way sound will travel through the new register in the wall, back up the duct towards the heater and then back down another duct to the bathroom and bedroom.
Drywall going up
Insulation and finishing the walls and ceiling:
Dense, sound dampening insulation (made from recycled jeans!):
All taped and spackled:
New painted man-corner:
Painting:
DONE!
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