Yet another gameroom build log : My ArcadeForge

[bencao74]

Guys, here`s my build log of my gameroom.

I`ve already posted my story in ArcadeZentrum and my blog.

This was the starting point:









After collecting some cabs and pins I`ve made my mind about new renovation of the roomo I`m used to to call Gameroom.

Situation:

- Floor was bad
- No Floor and Ceiling insulation
- no electricity installation

This made the room a pretty mess.

So I started with the ceiling



wood construction for plaster boards and insulation.



same time additional harness for power : 3 lines a 16A



some light installation electricity.



Palsterboard and insulation.

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Next was shifting the ladder ceiling hole



it was in the middle of the room. Thus it was not practicable for placing cabs.



sawing the holes in the upper level room



closing the old hole and placing the ladder at the entrace.

[Blanka]

Insulation in that place is not very good for the condition of your wooden floor. Don't know if that is a problem?

[bencao74]

Two days later, timewarp





Ceiling was finished with plasterbaord and I started to fill in the fissures.

But my time schedule was tight and instead we started to rip out the floor.


all wood plates was in one 6.60m piece!


base construction



explains why my pinballs startes wobble

[bencao74]

Insulation in that place is not very good for the condition of your wooden floor. Don't know if that is a problem?

don't know. upper room is insulated and floor will be insulated, too. So this is only a inbetween insulation for air coming out of the fissures of the wood and against loudness.

[bencao74]

after I sweeped together the old wood basement construction we started with the new basement.





some stones for fixing



protective foil



big saw.



big saw in action.



putting together the new basement. I`ve doubled the amount of wood construction pcs. The`re 8cm x 16cm, all together 14pcs on length of 6.60m



floor insulation



installation the first level of OSB plates for the floor.





my helping friends was very proud of this work after 4 days.

[bencao74]

after 4 days I took a break and did draw some planning for the cabs.







was quite fun to see how it could end finally.

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But quit dreaming, back to normal life again. The filling fun starts









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no more fissure. Now the acryl starts to get a smooth junction to the wood. I noticed that the ceiling wood is not in good shape and started to sand down all ceiling construction wood.

[bencao74]

it was really worth it!

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next action was ripping up the walls :









That was really fun.

Especially this one



Jaaa, I`m a lucky one. Could have end in a really bad story.

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So when ripping up the walls I thougth I could do the same for heater tubes

 


Filling in again the sockets:





I`ve foresee 30 sockets.

4 socket on one 1 line 16A for fridge, light and deco stuff

26 sockets divided up on two lines 16A.

additional 5 wire data line for switching each socket with low voltage.


central point of wiring plus data wires.





filling in again

some problem

replacement of a faulty installed plate



nearly finished the ceiling

[bencao74]

So this is the summary of the first days of renovation. I filled all ripping and connected the electrical installation. Next action is painting, floor and looking for furniture

Hoped you had some nice minutes watching the pics.

[Arch]

Whooaa!  Can I be your new best friend? 

Seriously, this looks great, bencao74. I love these kinds of threads. If you really end up putting a diner table and couches in there, it will be so great! Is this part of your house, or a standalone unit btw?
Keep us posted.

[bencao74]

indeed, I`ve made today the order for the custom diner bank and table

I found a shop offering the base and then you could add custom options.

Finally I had to decide between this both models.





After some googling I asked about stepping, knobs,  logo and color options.

Like this one

or this one or this

Coz I found it somehow difficult to decide I`ve made some simple scetches in scetchup










I`ve ordered the complete red one with 4 steppings on a 120cm long bank. Each stepping is from the outer sides is 20cm leaving place 40cm for the logo in the middle. The logo will be sewed in cremewhite color. The desk plate will be in creme white magnolia in 4cm aluminum frame. This way the color of the logo is matching to the desk color. Both basement of diner bank and table is black.


sample desk


color of desk bank will be "loud red" (wtf??)

[bencao74]

I live in a very old farmers house from 1870 something. Over the years this house was getting two attachments. This was the attachment where the old joinery was in the 50 or 60s. After that time it never get a renovation. But it`s completly integrated into the house.