Logan's Gameroom

[DarthNuno]

YEESSSSSSSSSSS  You're back on this ! 

... there is not much space between the top of the pinball and the ceiling, but when I put a wooden ceiling up there I'm afraid there wont be enough space left... hm... got to think of something...

Regarding the previous pictures, the ceiling looks fine... why not only painting it by the way ?

[logan]

Regarding the previous pictures, the ceiling looks fine... why not only painting it by the way ?

Good point  , at first I planned only painting it, but as the idea of building a gameroom grew in my mind I wanted everything to be perfect!

Here is why I decided to make a new ceiling:
1. I need room for all my wirering and the new lights
2. There are some holes in the ceiling from the mountings of the original "heating tubes"
3. The ceiling somewhen was painted and now on some spots this paint starts to fall off. This means I would have to scratch of all old paint before I could repaint it...

But mostly because of the wireing... so I can hide all the wires, that's also why I use plasterboards on the inner walls, only because its an easy way to hide all wires and setting up new switches an stuff  

[Sonic 1992]

Regarding the previous pictures, the ceiling looks fine... why not only painting it by the way ?

Good point  , at first I planned only painting it, but as the idea of building a gameroom grew in my mind I wanted everything to be perfect!

Here is why I decided to make a new ceiling:
1. I need room for all my wirering and the new lights
2. There are some holes in the ceiling from the mountings of the original "heating tubes"
3. The ceiling somewhen was painted and now on some spots this paint starts to fall off. This means I would have to scratch of all old paint before I could repaint it...

But mostly because of the wireing... so I can hide all the wires, that's also why I use plasterboards on the inner walls, only because its an easy way to hide all wires and setting up new switches an stuff  

How about running your wires in pipe conduit?  You can paint the conduit to match... ??

I have conduit running everywhere in my gameroom, It's not even painted, but it's hidden amongst all the posters.

I think scraping some paint will be way easier than trying to do a plaster or suspended ceiling, especially for your pinball machines! 

[logan]

Well, you know, My wife allows me to build this gameroom in our house, BUT (with women there is always a BUT...) only if everything looks clean and the room can also be used as a guestroom in emergency (I got some plans how to prewent this possibility...  ).

But, it really is a lot easier for me to just put a new ceiling under the old one then scratch of the paint, fill all the holes, dents and scratches, hope the old finery (is that the right word?) they used in the 70s wont fall off and finally paint it

All I have to do with the new ceiling is screw the timer up there, and then nail the ceiling panels into place...

The only thing I really worry about is the room height. This house was built somewhene between 1965 and 1975, everythins has been modernised over the time, but back in the days they didn't plan to use basement as a place to stay... only to store stuff... so, the rooms down here only have a hight of about 2.10 Meters. Fine with me, I'm only 1.82 big, but, as you can see on the pinball it could be not high enough...

So I really have to think of something... I think i could get the pinball down another 2 or 3 CMs by trunign those screws out you normally use to adjust the proper hight...


my wife dosn't allow me to build a gameroom in the garden... (not yet)... so this will have to do... 

[logan]

okay, tomorrow is the big day... As soon as my helper will be here I will start with the construction for the ceiling and the walls...

just gatherd all the tools so we can start right away! Finally I can use my new HILTI-Drill... 

[DarthNuno]

YES !!!

Can't wait to see the tools 'in action' 

Don't forget... work & take pictures 

 

[logan]

Here you go, new pictures:

After our first tries with the nailing gun:


Ceiling ready:


Unfortunatelly the nailinggun is almost to powerful for my wood, it sometimes just goes thru it... So is used some special Screw-Nail Thingys from HILTI to do the long wall...

This is how far we got today:


Tomorrow I will go and buy all the wires I need and will continue with that... after that the plasterboards come on the timber on the walls!

logan 

[Sonic 1992]

That's going to look great!  That isn't too much space sacrificed....  Now you will have a place to conceal all the wire!

Great Idea! 

[logan]

Thx Sonic! But yours is way better!

Okay, I wired the "fuse box" and also bought all the wires and switches and power sockets!


Today I also picked up the ceiling and the plasterboards!



I think I've got everything together now... 

[DarthNuno]

Good  Good 

Impossible to go backward now  You've to finish the transformation into a beautiful game room 

[logan]

Yes Darth, now there is now way back... The build will continue Saturday (electrics) and Sunday (maybe the ceiling, don't know yet, or something else, there's enough to do)... 

As soon as I'm finished I have to look for a Donkey Kong Jr. or a Pac-Man... love those two cabs... 
btw, I just bough two SEGA Astro Cabs, maybe I will go and pick them up Saturdaymoring... (only about 100km from here)

[level42]

If your tacks are going through stuff, reduce the pressure on your compressor. There should be a regulating knob with separate pressure gauge. At first my tacks were going through the plasterboards (or drywall as the yanks call them).

No offence but is there a system in your placement of the carrying wood ? You need to support the boards every 30 cm and that looks a lot wider ?

[logan]

If your tacks are going through stuff, reduce the pressure on your compressor. There should be a regulating knob with separate pressure gauge. At first my tacks were going through the plasterboards (or drywall as the yanks call them).

No offence but is there a system in your placement of the carrying wood ? You need to support the boards every 30 cm and that looks a lot wider ?

The nailgun doesn't work with a compressor, it's more like a regular gun, you put the nail in and the "charge" in the back and fire  We already used the lightest charges, that's why I switched to screws after I made the ceiling.

Yes, there is a "system", 50cm between them. These walls have alot of roughness, that's why i had to leave more space between some of the laths... 

[DarthNuno]

Yes, there is a "system", 50cm between them. These walls have alot of roughness, that's why i had to leave more space between some of the laths... 

Should not be a problem... once the games will be there, the walls won't be accessible ... so no risk to damage them 

[logan]

well, Level42 made me think...

I decided to put a second layer of laths on the first one, so it gains more stability, the plasterboards can be easier deployed because of the smaller space between and I can (hopefully) fully clear the roughness of the wall and it will become a plane new wall.
I wanted to do that on the outerwall (to keep space for the air so now steam and mold can build up) but now I think I will also do it on the 2 inner walls...

Here's a pic, what do you think? unnecessary?

I only bolted it on with 1 screw (per lath) to try it out, no problem to get the second layer down again.

I think it's better this way...