Starting construction on new CR!

[NL5]

Well, today is the big day. Not a terribly large project, but a handfull for me.

Here is the floorplan -

[notbradsohner]

sweet. That looks awesome. Do you have a digital camera? I expect lots of construction pics.

[travelin travis]

you're gonna do it all today?

[Nick The Man]

yeah i would like to see some pictures too !

[NL5]

Did somebody say pics?!?!?!?

Here is the old CR. The desk is on the left wall in the diagram above. It's kinda messy, I was getting everything out of the room besides the actual desk....

[NL5]

Wires, wires, and more wires - I just hope I can get everything back together!

[NL5]

Everything out of the room - man that carpet is GROSS!

[NL5]

My two assisitants helping with the Mount Vernon Cherry flooring -

[NL5]

The completed floor with the lower half of the bass trap/soffits (frame only so far) -

[notbradsohner]

wow! talk about improvements. That looks awesome! Nice job.

[treymonfauntre]

what kind of contraption do you have those monitors hanging out on?

[NL5]

Originally Posted by treymonfauntre

what kind of contraption do you have those monitors hanging out on?

They are sitting on the bottom half of the bass trap/soffits. The bottom half will be a bass trap. Stay tuned, I will have more pics soon, and it will make more sense.....

[cephus]

It's not good to run your computer with the side panel off. The ventilation is engineered to work best sucking through the right places instead of through the gaping hole.

Otherwise, s'cool.

[NL5]

Originally Posted by cephus

It's not good to run your computer with the side panel off. The ventilation is engineered to work best sucking through the right places instead of through the gaping hole.

Otherwise, s'cool.

Well, I have a fanless computer, so it really don't matter.

[treymonfauntre]

i meant the white things

[NL5]

Originally Posted by treymonfauntre

i meant the white things

Ohhhhhhhhh.....

That's 703 wrapped in a plastc bag.

[cephus]

It has no fans at all? I mean, I know you can put a big honking heat sink on a processor and get a fanless power supply. But video cards and HDDs generate alot of heat, too.

Hey, I'm a luddite. My crap is far from cutting edge. that's why I try to manage heat - so my stuff will last a long time.

The normal case exhaust fan usually serves to suck outside air past the hard disks to keep them cool. The computer under your desk in the first photo looks like a standard PC. I was just guessing that it was conventional.

My PC has a fan on the CPU 2 little ones on the drive bay and one big one that exhausts the case. I don't record vocals 2 feet away from it, of course, but I never thought it was that big of a deal.

I'm not busting you balls or anything. You just see alot of folks leaving the side open on their PC thinking it makes it cooler inside.

[NL5]

Top half of the traps/soffit are in. I'm going to put 2" 703 in between the two halves which will put them 1/2 from the ceiling.

[NL5]

My trip to Lowe's.

Got a $500 custom 36" door for $100. Whoo Hoo! Two sheets of Birch Plywood for the front of the soffits, lights for my "cloud", a bunch of 2x4's, and some 5/8" rock.

[NL5]

Update -

Got the soffits covered with 3/4 birch plywood. Taped and mudded the sheetrock. Built the cloud frame. More pics tommorow.......

[travelin travis]

Originally Posted by NL5

Update -

Got the soffits covered with 3/4 birch plywood. Taped and mudded the sheetrock. Built the cloud frame. More pics tommorow.......

Looking good so far man. Where are you gonna house the computer? How did you get that door for $100?

[NL5]

Originally Posted by TravisinFlorida

Where are you gonna house the computer? How did you get that door for $100?

The computer is going to be inside a door in the righthand side sheetrock wall. There will be a fairly large cavity there that will house the comp, and I am going to build a fairly large rack there as well....

The door was a custom order door (and then returned) that was clearanced priced to $200, then $100. I wasn't palnning on getting a door for awile, but I couldn't pass this up. It's a 36" exterior door with a 28x60 window in it. I was going to spend $279 on a similiar interior door.

[gummblefish]

looking good man, any more pics?

[NL5]

Walls up and soffits faced -

[Gorty]

Excellent work so far NL5, you have been a busy boy!!!