Things I wish I would have done differently in my project - Page 5

MarkMassey · 02-02-2006, 09:29 AM

Paid to have the sheetrocking and mudding done, run conduit under my riser for Butt Kickers and paid to have the HVAC from my house connected to the HT room

G_Courtney_A_A · 02-12-2006, 02:10 PM

We're just weeks away from having the foundation poured in our new house. The basement will be finished by me over the next couple years. This thread will save so many headaches I can't thank all of you enough. I've learned more here in one day than I have in the past couple months of searching the web. Keep it coming and thanks for this excellent forum!

Ryan Peddle · 02-26-2006, 11:03 AM

I live in an apartment so everything is limited, but I wish I had of set up my theater the way I have it now from the beginning as my overall enjoyment now is much higher than the last 2 years.

ChrisEarnhardt · 05-30-2006, 01:32 AM

I would have had George Lucas plan it out for me.

Justification · 09-21-2006, 07:31 PM

Couple years into the thread so not much to add but here goes.
Biggest problem is lack of access to back of equipment. I would have set my cabinet up where all components are accessable from the back for ease of wiring. The additional advantage would be that the components would be behind the viewer with better ventilation.
More cable, but we were unaware of what was coming down the pipe. Wired for 7.1 plus an additional center rear channel that is still unused, but did not run DVI or HDMI.
ran a flex pipe with the plan that I could pull additional wire, but it is not accessible as it is behind the cabinets, nor is it big enough.
Set up the recessed lights on seperate dimmers for zones, but should have had the front 6 on one with the rear 3 on the other instead of the 3 front (one row) and 6 rear (2 rows) together.
Wooden platform for floor instead of on the cement slab, but low ceilings and the flow of the room would dictate that I would have to dig out to lower the basement in this portion to have the design the same. Due to the way we use the room it's got to be on a level floor with the pool room.

yeshu · 11-04-2006, 11:22 AM

Hi Guys,

I am new buyer of HT. I am buying the system from Dell, is it any good. I will let you know what i am buying tomorrow as i will be getting a quote from Dell tomorrow.

Please reply to me. It's little bit urgent.

Thanks guys

Yesh

Bud Huey · 01-30-2007, 08:00 PM

Now that I am 80%+ finished with my theater, the one thing that I missed during my HT planning was to budget for insulation. I insulated my riser, my stage, the walls, ceiling, and trays. At the end of the project I probably have $800+ in insulation. Insulation is one of those things that are easy to add during construction, but very difficult to add after the fact, so I would not recommend taking shortcuts - just make sure to include it in your budget!

Good Luck,
Bud

Dave1 · 02-15-2007, 11:14 AM

I currently have a room that has the wiring wired into the ceiling for a projector. Now that HDMI is on the scene I wish that i had installed an electrical conduit pipe through the joists in the ceiling to where the projector is to be located back to the room behind this room. That way I could run the HDMI cable in the ceiling with no problem or even run better cables in the future if I had to. I have access to the room behind as it is an unfinished room in the basement.

Dave

JKL1960 · 02-15-2007, 11:58 AM

I was lucky enough to have found this thread and read it before I started designing my theater. Many thanks for allowing me to learn from other's mistakes.

I do have one to add.

If buying a projector and it will be fairly normally cieling mounted buy the factory cieling mount if they offer one. I could have ordered a factory cieling mount for $150 when I ordered my projector but I didn't.

I ended up using a universal mount and while it worked quite well I had to modify it slightly which involved several trips to hardwrae store looking for bits and pieces. In the end I didn't save enough probably about $40 which I would have happily spent on the right mount after fussing with the universal model.

bobbyg2 · 02-23-2007, 11:24 PM

I wouldn't have bought these crappy $20 Duals...