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rookiepsu

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I'm fairly new to this forum, and to pool in general, really. I started playing seriously about a year ago and trying to learn the game, and now I'm hooked. Anyway, I finally got clearance from my wife to build an outbuilding for my pool table to feed my addiction :) I read through dsoriano's thread on the custom room he built every day, and though I won't have the resources allocated to do anything close to what he did, it has inspired me to at least do what I could. So I started on this at the end of June, and hope to have it completed, structurally, by August 1. I don't have a ton of time to work (evenings and some weekends), and there's only 2 of us working on it (myself and my father), or I'd have it done quicker. So here it is. I decided on a 16x20 outbuilding with 4 windows and a double-french door. T1-11 siding and Ondura roofing. I put it on skids because we're planning on building a home in the near future (3-5 years), so i could have this moved to our new house when the time comes. I'll post day-to-day progress pictures in this thread.
 
Day 2

Day 1 was spent leveling the ground, laying the skids and making sure they were all level and square to begin building. The skids are 4x6 treated. I don't have any pictures of that, but there's not much to see there anyway. Day 2, the floor is framed.
 
Days 3 and 4

Days 3 & 4: Small hiccup on the floor framing where we had to tear out a side and re-nail because our helper nailed them incorrectly! Got that done, the insulation and subfloor down. We covered the entire underside of the floor frame with aluminum screen to hold the insulation and protect it from rodents and such.
 
Day 6

We took a break for a little over a week before getting back to this. I was down in Tunica for the NAPA Nationals 8-ball tournament, and then the 4th of July weekend was more downtime. Then it rained like the end of the world was coming for a while, the truss company delivered the incorrect size trusses, so I had to wait for the new ones. Anyway, the roof trusses are finally up.
 
Days 8 and 9

Days 8 and 9 were spent on the roof. We got the gable end overhangs built and up on day 8 and half of the roof sheathed and felt-papered on day 9. Somehow day 7 disappeared from my log, so I'm not sure what we did there.
 
Days 10 and 11

Day 10 was spent sheathing and covering the other side of the roof with felt-paper. We also got half of the Ondura installed, then finished that up on day 11. This stuff is great to work with and I think it looks better than shingles, personally. It's a little bit more expensive, but goes down extremely quickly, is very lightweight and lasts for like 50 years.
 
Nice job! Nothing better than building your own practice room!
Please allow me to suggest if possible:

- A cement base for protection against moisture
- Use of some isolating material at walls-ceiling
- Roof with some angles to drive rain water out
- Use of moquette on the floor
- Good isolating windows
- Some nice billiard photos on the walls!

All the best!
Petros
 
Days 12 and 13

We got all the sheathing on the walls, cut out the windows, then put the wrap on and installed the windows. You might notice that the only 2 sides of the building with windows are facing our house on one side and my father-in-law's massive garage on the other. I thought better of putting windows on the back since we'll be breaking in that direction and inevitably someone would fire a ball through one. I figure if we ever move it, at least there's windows on either side for views.
 
rookiepsu said:
I'm fairly new to this forum, and to pool in general, really. I started playing seriously about a year ago and trying to learn the game, and now I'm hooked. Anyway, I finally got clearance from my wife to build an outbuilding for my pool table to feed my addiction :) I read through dsoriano's thread on the custom room he built every day, and though I won't have the resources allocated to do anything close to what he did, it has inspired me to at least do what I could. So I started on this at the end of June, and hope to have it completed, structurally, by August 1. I don't have a ton of time to work (evenings and some weekends), and there's only 2 of us working on it (myself and my father), or I'd have it done quicker. So here it is. I decided on a 16x20 outbuilding with 4 windows and a double-french door. T1-11 siding and Ondura roofing. I put it on skids because we're planning on building a home in the near future (3-5 years), so i could have this moved to our new house when the time comes. I'll post day-to-day progress pictures in this thread.
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I wish you would have posted this sooner I would have told you that 16x20 is going to be pretty tight even for an 8 foot table. Should have added 4-6 feet to the length so you would have room for some furniture and/or a couple spectators etc. Too late now. Good luck and looking good.

JC
 
rookiepsu said:
Day 10 was spent sheathing and covering the other side of the roof with felt-paper. We also got half of the Ondura installed, then finished that up on day 11. This stuff is great to work with and I think it looks better than shingles, personally. It's a little bit more expensive, but goes down extremely quickly, is very lightweight and lasts for like 50 years.
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<-- sounds like the recipe for a good wife.... well, maybe not the expensive part, but that can't really be helped.
 
Sweet. The only things that I can build, I eat. I can take damn near anything apart though!

Having your own pool table is the nuts. Takes 1 hr to go play pool for an hour.;)

Enjoy...we will be watching.
 
Petros Andrikop said:
Nice job! Nothing better than building your own practice room!
Please allow me to suggest if possible:

- A cement base for protection against moisture
- Use of some isolating material at walls-ceiling
- Roof with some angles to drive rain water out
- Use of moquette on the floor
- Good isolating windows
- Some nice billiard photos on the walls!

All the best!
Petros
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Thanks :) And thanks for the suggestions. If/when we move it, I'll likely put it up on piers, or a cement pad. It should last in the mean time as all of the skids and floor joists are treated lumber. We're putting vapor barrier on the walls and ceiling after the insulation is in there. The roof is a 4/12 pitch, and I'll be installing gutters. I'm unfamiliar with moquette...I'll have to do some research!

Thanks again! :)
 
JC said:
I wish you would have posted this sooner I would have told you that 16x20 is going to be pretty tight even for an 8 foot table. Should have added 4-6 feet to the length so you would have room for some furniture and/or a couple spectators etc. Too late now. Good luck and looking good.

JC
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Yeah, I know :( After I got the floor and walls frame, I had buyer's remorse on the size. I should have gone at least 24. At any rate, a 2x2 corner-mount table with 2 bar stools at each front corner will leave enough stick room for my 8-foot table. But yes, I definitely should have gone longer.
 
rookiepsu said:
Yeah, I know :( After I got the floor and walls frame, I had buyer's remorse on the size. I should have gone at least 24. At any rate, a 2x2 corner-mount table with 2 bar stools at each front corner will leave enough stick room for my 8-foot table. But yes, I definitely should have gone longer.
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This really only gives you a couple of feet extra space if you want to have enough clearance around the table. If on the rail, you need 60" of space, plus the space for your feet to stand behind the cue and swing. You may want to put a 7' table there.
 
Moquette is the kind of carpet you see used in offices, reduces sound a lot and it's quite relaxing walking on to when playing.
Possibly there are other words for it, that was the first that came in mind.
About the size of the room, if you can do something now do it.
It's a pitty to go into all this trouble and not being able to put a 9 footer in there..
Good luck!
Petros
 
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