House Projects

[scheides]

Something showed up at my house last friday....bought it in a moment of weakness. Hilarity/awesomeness ensued.

Before the TV arrived, I wired up an outlet with spare parts I had lying around the house. This went quick, but with an old house I definitely had to change my plan about placement several times over!

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I had a 40" out here and moved it into the bedroom....the 32" I put on the tv stand for a nice before/after :)

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New bedroom setup:

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A few days later (I suck at timing, oh well), a few more boxes showed up.

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Mount up, this thing is the bomb! Holds 300 pounds...I could seriously hang from it. Monoprice #6517.
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TV up on the wall, testing everything out:
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Pulling cable down to basement was no easy task, but hey what else am I going to do at 2am? Tidied up the cabling all nice once I was done:

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Can see it all the way from the kitchen--woot!
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Upstairs all cleaned and buttoned up:
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All in all, I got a bunch of 50' long cables:
-2x 24awg CL2 HDMI (1 for immediate use, 1 for future)
-2x 3.5mm stereo jacks (1 for stereo output from tv down to reciever, 1 for IR emitters)
-3x 14awg CL2 speaker wire (left, right, center).

Downstairs I have my DVR and old-arse receiver:
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Still need to clean up everything but I'm already enjoying the isht out of this setup!

[polishmafia]

Awesome! I see you were watching Fast n Loud haha!

[goodhart]

Fuck yea! Thats a sweet setup man

[Halon]

Awesome! I see you were watching Fast n Loud haha!

Lol, beard!!!

[turbotalon1g]

Do you have an extender for the remote control sensor thinga-ma-bob?

I never knew how these setups work.

[scheides]

Awesome! I see you were watching Fast n Loud haha!

LOL Hell yea!
Fuck yea! Thats a sweet setup man

Thx!

Do you have an extender for the remote control sensor thinga-ma-bob?

I never knew how these setups work.


http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=109&cp_id=10110&cs_id=1011009&p_id=9895&seq=1&format=2

$17 and change, and setup is easy. Please IR receiver sensor on TV so you can point your remote at it. Run cord from there to the little box (2/3 the size of a deck of cards, requires a DC adapter), and then run a cord from there down to your cable box/stereo/receiver/etc where there are these little emitters that you either dangle in front of the equipment or stick right over the IR sensors. All of teh cords are 3.5mm stereo plugs so it's really easy to extend the emitters and the cables are small/thin so you can run them wherever.

Basically the point is to just extend your remote control's output down to the gear that is hidden away. It is a bit disconcerting in that you cannot see the clock/channel/volume level on whatever you're controlling, but once you get used to it it is fine--it works exactly as though the gear was sitting right in front of you.

[JET]

I have the same remote IR setup sitting downstairs, does it work good? Any delay from the time you press the button to when it does something? I am wondering if it will work ok on the cable box. Looks good man and Monoprice rocks!

[98gstaherns]

Ok since im not seeing it at the moment it.. But did i read someone that some one on here does gutters? Or have any recommendations for places to get them done.

Also took down the 6 foot tall grass that over took my yard since we moved in our place in the middle of summer. its nice to have a somewhat yard again!

[goodhart]

95tsi does/did gutters, but he lives in Montana now.

[BriK]

Ok since im not seeing it at the moment it.. But did i read someone that some one on here does gutters? Or have any recommendations for places to get them done.


We just did our gutters and went with Ficek Fabrication (www.FicekFabrication.com (http://www.FicekFabrication.com)) out of IGH. We got 5 quotes and they weren't the cheapest but also not the most expensive, but we chose them because Darren (the owner) was really nice, really detailed, and we felt he'd do the best job. I also liked his gutter guard system the best; we went with micro-mesh metal frame option (indicated on top of the Gutter Guard page) which seems to do the best job and comes with a 20-year warranty.