6 Months and untold hours of labor later! (56k go roll a joint)

I see I can only have 10 IMG's per post....so I just linked the construction pics if you want to see and left the table pics tagged.

Well, as I said in my intro thread last week, I've been out of 'the pool' so-to-speak for almost 20 years..... I was planning an addition to my place of business, and decided thius was a golden opportunity to make the addition a little bigger and add a pool room (the fringe benefit and still a tax deduction). The entire addition was 1200sq ft, making my facility just a touch over 5000sq ft of usable space.... I had the concrete already, it was a huge loading dock....I had no use for a loading dock that large, so why not put some building over it, which I can use.... I hired a crew of Mennonites to put the shell up, as working alone, I couldnt have it done as fast, and with the building opened up like that.....they had the shell up in 6 days. Anyway, here we go!!

The facing torn off the south and east sides of the building:

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Framing the new exterior walls:
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Trusses arrived
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trusses being set
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Framing done and roof going on
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No need for that 7' exterior door between 2 interior rooms, so it got removed and relocated to a different exterior location
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They're just about done...
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Here's where that 7' door got placed:
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....and done.... I took over construction after this.

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Railings and some steps:
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The raw 32x52 interior room
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Walled up where that 7' door used to be
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I added some porch lights
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Framed in the interior walls
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HVAC installed
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With the walls crammed full of R-19 insulation, drywall time came....ceiling first

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The holy grail of drywalling a ceiling
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yours truly from the back side....I dont post pics of myself online....but if someone really wants to look at this one, I'd have to wonder!!
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ceilings done
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now for the walls, and another load of drywall...

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then came my most hated task in construction....taping and mudding...

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sanded
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Textured the ceiling
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another task I'm not overly fond of....painting..

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Now for the flooring













now the part you've all been waiting for!!!









I will be adding some track lighting with some smaller LED floods to light the table better. I will have a TV between the two windows soon.....the last thing I want is the view of a football game obscured from the the other side of the room by some obnoxiously big table light.....just never liked them anyway.

I know I'm the renegade anyway, I already caught hell for my non-standard cloth color....but after playing on it a couple days, I really do like it. Blue chalk isn't too bad on it....the red chalk was really bad. I did find some wine/burgundy colored chalk, I'll see what that looks like....but blue didn't make as big of a mess as I thought it would. it cleans up easily with a vacuum.

Now to get my game back......I am playing embarrassingly poor....but improving with every game. I will also be refinishing the wood skirts on the table. The table was originally blue....then red....then someone painted it brown..... I'll strip them and redo them natural.

That's all for now....thanks for stopping by.

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I know I'm the outcast for the color.....but I honestly like it very much. It's brand new Simonis 860, just installed the other day by the table mechanic. When it wears out, I'll definitely replace it then.....probably with tournament blue....but it has a lot of pool to still be played on it. I addressed the lighting situation above....

iusedtoberich said:

Wow that's awesome. Great job. And it looks like you had every detail planned out for the table before you even began.

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I did. I actually had the table bought before construction even started. the room was built around the table. the room dimensions are 22x22. The tile floor was also tailored for the table.

Appreciate the compliments!! The table was the final step in what was a long grueling processes.

pwd72s said:

I know what you mean about the remodeling process. When Cindy decided to have a kitchen remodel, I packed my bags and my cue case, telling her to call me when it's over.

I had a pretty good time exploring the byways of the west. AND..we were still married when the kitchen was done. Experience from another remodel time convinced me that may not have been the case if I'd stayed.

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I actually really enjoy this kind of work. It was hard work, but it was a great learning experience and created a really cool sense of pride knowing that I built it.

My wife and I are looking to build a new house in about 5 years....I have to save cash again....I paid cash for all this, and I will when I build the house too.....I don't like making payments. It took me about 2yrs to save for this task.....but this is attached to my shop/garage/toy box/ultimate mancave.... Building a house might prove to be more of a strain on my marriage....LOL....so I'll keep your scenario in mind!

dontlitethat said:

The room looks great! I can't tell for sure...but it looks line you used 1/2 board on the ceiling.... Ceiling board has purple paper on the ends and is 7/16ths thick and is a must when ceiling framing is two foot on center even if the boards are on flats.
Hope all is well.

Great looking place'


Rob.M

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Its 5/8 on the ceiling, half inch on the walls, which was path recommended by several commercial contractors...All is well, ceiling is nice and flat...and holy jeez that stuff was heavy!! That was my concern, the weight....but its holding fine, even after all the thumping and banging in the attic wiring the lights in....It was screwed in well. The stringers attached to the underside of the trusses for the ceiling drywall are 24" OC, with additioinal cross support every 4ft via a nailer on the truss...its not coming down, if that's your concern. There wasn't any specific drywall for ceilings around here...other than possibly some 4x8 sheets of 3/8"....looked like mobile home drywall. I wanted 12' sheets, fewer butt seams.

For whoever mentioned it being a 200k job....well I'll tell on myself a little... Not counting the cost of the table, this project cost me $24,300. I put a pencil to it last week, getting ready for taxes. I budgeted 25k before I started, I saved a ton doing it myself, but I have done a lot of construction work in the past, so I wasn't a total nubb. I came in a couple grand under budget, and used the extra to do the nicer tile floor.....rather than laminate. Carpet was never an option.....having to move the table to replace nasty carpet is silly... I have plenty of extra tile in the event a ball cracks one.... It really isn't hard to pop a tile out and replace it, grout it back in, and done.