Hi All,
Hope everyone is doing OK under the circumstances
(Back story)
August 2019 My girlfriend and I started looking to purchase our first house, we found a house with the footprint we wanted and in an area we were happy enough with. We put in an offer and a day later found we were going to be in ownership of a mid/late 60s 3 bedroom terrance house with living room, dining room and kitchen downstairs, 2 off street parking spaces at the rear, a small but nice sized garden and a huge double+ garage with electric rolling door!
After a lot of stress and headaches due to the current owner being a complete idiot, by mid/late October 2019 we were picking up the keys.
Day 1. Walked in and tried to assess the situation, found lots of problems instantly and these have slowly developed over the last year.
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Problems - Radiators in wrong places, part replumb, boiler serviced, kitchen ripped out, found fatty/greasy floorboards all over the kitchen that stank!
[/font][font="Verdana, sans-serif"]We have gutted the kitchen, removed all the floorboards and renewed, fitted new kitchen. We have found melted wiring, scorch marks in multiple socket backboxes, wires held together with paper masking tape, that is black as has been burning, and to top off the complete installation a crappy Screwfix own brand consumer unit where the wires had not been tightened correctly and arcing had taken place causing RCD wires to melt as well as the main switch to melt to the incoming tails! - All round a bit of a sh!t show![/font]
Positives! - (there were none) (but I've made some!). Due to the fact the house clearly needed to be rewired, it has given me the opportunity to have all the sockets exactly where we need them, plan each room out carefully with lots of expansion possibilities and of course fit a new consumer unit, which is a latest standard RCBO board with SPD. It's great to feel we are pretty electrically safe now!
The fun part!
- Whilst all the floorboards were up it seemed rude to not run network cables to every room in the house, so I've fitted a 15U rack mount cabinet in what was the airing cupboard, fed the Virgin Media coax into the patch panel, and run Cat7A S/FTP ethernet to all rooms. I've also taken the opportunity to run WF100 coax to every bedroom and the living room so we can have Freesat/Sky options or I guess Virgin if I really wanted to, although there is an 8-way LNB fitted on the Sky dish and this runs into a patch panel in the cabinet.
The really fun part!!
- Whilst all the kitchen floor was up it seemed silly to not get some future proofing in when it comes to the garage. a pair of 50mm smooth walled commercial grade ducts has been ran under the garden between the garage and the house, one duct for power, one duct for networking. In the networking duct I've placed a pair of Cat7A network cables, and just for fun an OM3 fibre cable! the Cat7A cables should be easily capable of 10G, maybe 40G if I had equipment to support it, and the OM3 cable should be able to do a 100G! The thought of a 100G link between the house and the garage just seems funny
I don't think I'll ever max the bandwidth on that one! In the power duct I've ran a 16mm armoured which according to TLC Direct can take up to 94 Amps, it's on a 63A MCB so should be absolutely fine.
With all of the above in mind, I think the fully detached garage should be the perfect place for a games room! It should (I hope) have all the power and network capability one would need. I'm currently in the process of planning my floor layout, game layout and then I can take this plan to the electrician and work out how best to get the power safely to the machines. I'm not entirely sure which route would be better, ring final circuits, or 4.00mm radials. Either way I think the power requirements of my machines is pretty heavy.
Must haves (that I own) to go in the game room:
House of the Dead 1 upright
House of the Dead 2 Super Deluxe (sit-down 50" RP)
Daytona USA 1 Twin (Woody type)
Must have items (that I own) to go in the game room:
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Small/medium 2 seater sofa bed - this was in my original play room when I was about 8 or 9 years old, I spent hours sat on it playing my PS1 and my gran has kept it in storage all these years for me.[/font]
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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Optional (that I own):[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Jurassic Park The Lost World Deluxe (Same size as HotD2 Super Deluxe)[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Virtua Cop 1 Upright (Empty cab, bought to MAME and play all other shooters on.[/font]
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[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Optional (that I don't own):[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Robotron 2084 - JROK powered upright (Would build myself)[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Terminator 2 Pinball machine[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]+More[/font]
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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]TV Options (That I own):[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]B&O AV9000 (v1) 28" CRT[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]B&O AV9000 (v2) 28" CRT[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]B&O MX7000 28" CRT [/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Toshiba 37" CRT[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Toshiba 61" RPTV CRT based (with RGB and 480i Component)[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]JVC AV21TS4EK 21" CRT[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Sony Bravia 48" LCD (RGB SCART, Component, HDMI, 1080p)[/font]
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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]TV Options (That I don't own):[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Open to suggestions?[/font]
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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]I'm making this post/thread to get advice from everyone on here, and share the build when it happens (will be within the next 2 years I suspect). I had typed a LOT more but my post failed to post last night and the contents was lost.[/font]
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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]I'll try to attach some pictures of floorpans and layouts shortly so everyone can see what I'm working with. [/font]
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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]I'm rather excited as tomorrow I plan to get my arcade machines out of storage and finally all in one place! This should allow me to start working on them and servicing/restoring the twin Daytona.[/font]
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[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Machines that are in storage:[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]House of the Dead 1 Upright and one of my Daytona USA machines[/font]
All my other machines, spares, TVs and all sorts:
My House of the Dead 2 Super Deluxe:
The garage dimensions are roughly: 6.9m by 4.8m, The finished room will be somewhat smaller than this as I want to a) keep a small section of the garage for bins, gardening tools etc. b) All the walls will be battened, insulated, plasterboarded etc. I think the finished internal dimensions will be a little smaller than 5.8m by 4.5m. A basic floor plan is shown below to give an idea of what it could look like, all suggestions and advice welcome
Floor plan:
david6562020-10-25 16:30:39
Hope everyone is doing OK under the circumstances
(Back story)
August 2019 My girlfriend and I started looking to purchase our first house, we found a house with the footprint we wanted and in an area we were happy enough with. We put in an offer and a day later found we were going to be in ownership of a mid/late 60s 3 bedroom terrance house with living room, dining room and kitchen downstairs, 2 off street parking spaces at the rear, a small but nice sized garden and a huge double+ garage with electric rolling door!
After a lot of stress and headaches due to the current owner being a complete idiot, by mid/late October 2019 we were picking up the keys.
Day 1. Walked in and tried to assess the situation, found lots of problems instantly and these have slowly developed over the last year.
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Problems - Radiators in wrong places, part replumb, boiler serviced, kitchen ripped out, found fatty/greasy floorboards all over the kitchen that stank!
Positives! - (there were none) (but I've made some!). Due to the fact the house clearly needed to be rewired, it has given me the opportunity to have all the sockets exactly where we need them, plan each room out carefully with lots of expansion possibilities and of course fit a new consumer unit, which is a latest standard RCBO board with SPD. It's great to feel we are pretty electrically safe now!
The fun part!
The really fun part!!
With all of the above in mind, I think the fully detached garage should be the perfect place for a games room! It should (I hope) have all the power and network capability one would need. I'm currently in the process of planning my floor layout, game layout and then I can take this plan to the electrician and work out how best to get the power safely to the machines. I'm not entirely sure which route would be better, ring final circuits, or 4.00mm radials. Either way I think the power requirements of my machines is pretty heavy.
Must haves (that I own) to go in the game room:
House of the Dead 1 upright
House of the Dead 2 Super Deluxe (sit-down 50" RP)
Daytona USA 1 Twin (Woody type)
Must have items (that I own) to go in the game room:
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Small/medium 2 seater sofa bed - this was in my original play room when I was about 8 or 9 years old, I spent hours sat on it playing my PS1 and my gran has kept it in storage all these years for me.[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]
[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Optional (that I own):[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Jurassic Park The Lost World Deluxe (Same size as HotD2 Super Deluxe)[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Virtua Cop 1 Upright (Empty cab, bought to MAME and play all other shooters on.[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]
[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Optional (that I don't own):[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Robotron 2084 - JROK powered upright (Would build myself)[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Terminator 2 Pinball machine[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]+More[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]
[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]TV Options (That I own):[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]B&O AV9000 (v1) 28" CRT[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]B&O AV9000 (v2) 28" CRT[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]B&O MX7000 28" CRT [/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Toshiba 37" CRT[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Toshiba 61" RPTV CRT based (with RGB and 480i Component)[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]JVC AV21TS4EK 21" CRT[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Sony Bravia 48" LCD (RGB SCART, Component, HDMI, 1080p)[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]
[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]TV Options (That I don't own):[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Open to suggestions?[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]
[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]I'm making this post/thread to get advice from everyone on here, and share the build when it happens (will be within the next 2 years I suspect). I had typed a LOT more but my post failed to post last night and the contents was lost.[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]
[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]I'll try to attach some pictures of floorpans and layouts shortly so everyone can see what I'm working with. [/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]
[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]I'm rather excited as tomorrow I plan to get my arcade machines out of storage and finally all in one place! This should allow me to start working on them and servicing/restoring the twin Daytona.[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]
[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]Machines that are in storage:[/font]
[font="Verdana, sans-serif"]House of the Dead 1 Upright and one of my Daytona USA machines[/font]
All my other machines, spares, TVs and all sorts:
My House of the Dead 2 Super Deluxe:
The garage dimensions are roughly: 6.9m by 4.8m, The finished room will be somewhat smaller than this as I want to a) keep a small section of the garage for bins, gardening tools etc. b) All the walls will be battened, insulated, plasterboarded etc. I think the finished internal dimensions will be a little smaller than 5.8m by 4.5m. A basic floor plan is shown below to give an idea of what it could look like, all suggestions and advice welcome
Floor plan:
david6562020-10-25 16:30:39
