Got some goodies today...

Put this guy in today at another clients house. Turned out pretty good :thumbsup

First class installs paradise:thumbup:

So clueless... I have no idea what you are talking about...

Bad azz. I put CAT5 and HDMI ports all throughout my house when I remodeled, and thought I was bad azz doing that! LOL

So not worthy...

Not much of an update today. Got the rest of the custom shelves built and installed, receivers and BluRay players put in. Tomorrow we'll start on wiring the first rack up.

That's when the fun starts

Started getting some of the wiring done on the speaker wires. Before anyone asks, the white zip ties are temporary. Lol

Only had an hour or so to work on it. We're busy with some IT projects so these are on the back burner this week.

awesome.....

I have just figured out that everything I know about AV is obsolete and wack....lol

Gave the guys a break from the heat and got more wiring done... This stuff is really time consuming to make look nice.

We're heading out next week to wire another house at HS. Hopefully it'll cool down by then.







Here's a wire diagram myself and Carlos threw on the whiteboard earlier to make sure we had all our materials. Lol

Whoops that one uploaded rotated

Two Satellite systems?

Classic Daycruiser said:

Two Satellite systems?

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It's two houses that are tied together. They will share some audio and video sources but will have their own separate satellite boxes.

The idea is to have them be functional on their own, but when we're both sitting on the patios we can share a source.

Each house will have:
One bluray player per house
Two satellite boxes per house
Two streams of music for that house only
Two shared streams (can be chosen from either house)
The camera NVR will be shared between both houses

This way the houses can be used independently or both houses can play all the same music throughout. (They are right next to each other)

How come you have a crown amp connected to a firepit 700?

:yikesAwful lot going on there just to turn on a TV :headscratch:

Tom Brown said:

How come you have a crown amp connected to a firepit 700?

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Lol that's chicken scratch

It actually says firepit 70V. We have a bunch of landscape speakers going outside we're calling the firepit zone. Depending on the number of speakers we end up with we may run them in a 70v configuration instead of 8ohm. That crown amp will do either 70v or 8ohm.

28Eliminator said:

:yikesAwful lot going on there just to turn on a TV :headscratch:

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It'll do a lot more than that

Nice! Funny... we had a lunch n learn just yesterday with Extron and I timed myself How long before my eyes start glazing over

12 minutes

I'm glad my SE knows his shit

Do you know anything about On-Q ?
That is what is in my house and I am still trying to figure the whole thing out. I am just smart enough about it to be dangerous and certainly dumb enough amout it to screw it up real good.
I do have some questions that I would like to get answered.

Instigator said:

Do you know anything about On-Q ?
That is what is in my house and I am still trying to figure the whole thing out. I am just smart enough about it to be dangerous and certainly dumb enough amout it to screw it up real good.
I do have some questions that I would like to get answered.

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What system do you have? On-q has a ton of SKUs...

They approached us to offer a product on an MDU project so I may be able to help you out. Shoot me a PM.

Zack

paradise said:

It'll do a lot more than that

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I was just messin with ya... Bad ass stuff. Where are you at?

28Eliminator said:

I was just messin with ya... Bad ass stuff. Where are you at?

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I figured. Lol. Was just having a good time back.

We're based out of San Diego, but depending on the size of the project, we cover SoCal and Arizona from Yuma to San Diego, Chula Vista to LA.

My dad went out with the guys today to help them get started on the tile. He sent me this pic. Front sliders are in :thumbsup

paradise said:

My dad went out with the guys today to help them get started on the tile. He sent me this pic. Front sliders are in :thumbsup

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Wow Zack, is that your new place? Very nice..... I gotta get up there to check it out soon.....

scouter said:

Wow Zack, is that your new place? Very nice..... I gotta get up there to check it out soon.....

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Yeah it is, you'll have to check it out next week. :thumbsup

I just read through this whole thread, now I'm feeling like a 'tard....

Not much has happened on our end, but they've made a little progress. It's all moving pretty slowly.

Here's a few pics. Should be some more action on the AV side next week.

Been a while since I have updated this thread... Our houses are still moving slowly, but one of the other houses out here we worked on is finally finished. Now I think we are next in line

They have our garage fully framed and wired now, and my parent's is framed and ready for a roof.







Here are the current ones of the culdesac:







They've just barely started on the grading around the front and side of the house, but hopefully this week they'll be able to get some more progress made.

We're making a few changes inside that set them back too. This was just a solid wall and made the shower feel way too closed in...


Here is some of the amazing wiring we are seeing in these houses. There was supposed to be a TV box here, and when we cut the drywall we found this live wire just floating in the insulation. I guess they wire the houses before drywall (like normal) but don't nail on any boxes (???). After drywall, they then come back in and use cut in boxes everywhere. Pretty bizarre, and clearly, things get missed...



Figured I'd throw up some AV pictures since that's what this thread is supposed to be about LOL. This is the guys laying out the wiring harness for the last house we just wired. We get everything laid out at the shop and then roll it up on a spool and bring it out to Yuma. Once there, the guys just have to unroll it, pull it into the house and up through the floor.






once it all gets pulled in, it gets terminated at the rack like this


Here is the back of the rack of the house we just finished. We do a harness here as well that plugs into the wall plates you see above.
Before:

After:


The last house we just finished, TVs hung and wrapped for protection. (We talked with the client and went to a bigger TV in the second picture LOL)



That's all for now, I just ordered up the subs for the theater in the garage, and we have that all wired up for everything we need. Now it's just a waiting game for the contractor to get the patios and hardscape done. Then paint, tile the showers, plumbing trim, AV trim and finish etc etc etc. Starting to get excited again:champagne::champagne:

Badass!! Love seeing the pics! :thumbsup:

Is it true that they don't own the land?

Looks awesome Zack..... Still need to get down there to check it out in person.

Mel, all the land down at HS is leased.

Correct, we don't own the land. We just lease/rent it. We've gone back and forth and looked at quite a few places up at Fisheds/Martinez. In the end we liked the total package of HS even if we don't like the fact we don't own it.

The other side of that coin is we got a great deal on our houses and they are relatively mild compared to what some others are doing. Some of the guys are spending $1m on these houses (bigger than ours) and still don't own the land. We will be less than that for both of ours.

Some new pictures from last week I forgot to post up.

Garage is all drywalled inside, not sure why they haven't taped/textured?


There is paint on the walls, base and case are in, some stuff is starting to get cleaned up in the house. Tile has still yet to go in though... (the order is a little out of whack but the contractors are trying)



Roofs are stacked and should be getting worked on any time. You can see the footings they were forming up so they could frame the patios.


This will be our back yard area, thinking of putting a palapa back here


This is looking from our patio towards my parent's patio, they'll have covered patios on both of the structures.


Racks are 90% completed and just waiting. The construction has taken just a little longer than it was supposed to We'll have our guys out there in a week or two to start trimming out the first house.

Stopped by the river on the way back from Powell to look at the houses. Just snapped a couple quick pics. The patios are all framed up, second garage is roofed.

A little more progress... Slowly but surely LOL

Granite is in:


From this:


To this:


Scratch and brown done:

Looking good Zack. :thumbup:

scouter said:

Looking good Zack. :thumbup:

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Thanks! We might even be in by new years

Got the subs for the theater [emoji106][emoji106]

paradise said:

Got the subs for the theater [emoji106][emoji106]
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Those are serious subs! Brand?

riverroyal said:

Those are serious subs! Brand?

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JTR Orbit Shifters. Guy makes some great speakers. Going to try and get him to move into the CI space a little more.

http://jtrspeakers.com/home-audio/orbit-shifter-lfu/

18" driver
14' folded horn design
133db ea

Strabo said:

Very cool indeed.

Questions, do you use some type of positive, filtered and cooled airflow system to keep the rack cooled and prevent dust from accumulating in and on the components?

Desert enviroments are tough on electrical equipment, that and the heat they generate.

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Not on this project. The racks will have cooling fans, and will be inside the conditioned house, but there will not be additional filtering or cooling beyond that. On larger projects we do push for a separate room with it's own conditioning system but being that this is going in a double-wide space is limited and trying to carve out another room and install additional HVAC equipment would be far overkill.

Strabo said:

I can dig it. I thought something like what they use in off road racing that filters the air using a small self contained air pump and filter, then an exit vent of some sort.

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Fair enough. I guess in theory you could run the fans to draw air into the rack instead of being an exhaust fan and install filters on them but I'm not sure it would get the flow it needs to keep positive pressure. The racks aren't exactly sealed :grumble:

paradise said:

Fair enough. I guess in theory you could run the fans to draw air into the rack instead of being an exhaust fan and install filters on them but I'm not sure it would get the flow it needs to keep positive pressure. The racks aren't exactly sealed :grumble:

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No, i mean a seperate air system that stands alone. Dust kills my electronics, so i thought something along the lines i was thinkin about would work for both reasons i talked about.

Thanks for chatting about it, your system is kickass and the thing i admire more than anything is the workmanship, all nice and neat.

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Strabo said:

No, i mean a seperate air system that stands alone. Dust kills my electronics, so i thought something along the lines i was thinkin about would work for both reasons i talked about.

Thanks for chatting about it, your system is kickass and the thing i admire more than anything is the workmanship, all nice and neat.

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Oh I hear ya and I think it would be killer to have that set up... Would just take a little more effort on sealing the rack (or the room). We're basically just talking about a parker pumper plumbed into the rack and sealing the rack just enough so it could acutally create positive pressure to keep dust out. I really like the idea and depending on sound levels may try to work something in. Definitely food for thought...

Thanks for the compliment :thumbup:

paradise said:

Scratch and Brown #2 done

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Are you out this weekend?

scouter said:

Are you out this weekend?

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Nope. Next weekend

How much of that stuff is from Snap AV?

Beach Gomer said:

How much of that stuff is from Snap AV?

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A chunk of it. On this build:

Snap:
Rack
Speakers
Connectors and Terminations
Surveilance
Video Distribution

Core brands:
Power conditioning and control (Bluebolt)
Automation and System Control
Audio Distribution
Lighting

Fusion Research:
Audio Streaming

JTR Speakers:
Theater Audio

Crown:
Outdoor Amplifier

We are starting to use the ELAN UltraMatrix for both Audio and Video distribution but these racks were built before that was even released.

Well, we are getting closer now... AV Finish and move in is this coming week... Then finish landscaping and exterior flatwork. Then the decorations etc

Whatdya' think? :tbi:

There will be a trellis on the columns on the left house and the face of the wall will be stucco. Built to help hide the AC.

Front is all pavers, back is flagstone and acid washed concrete.

We're stoked it's getting close. After the protracted building process it seems a little anti-climactic LOL

Here are a couple more from along the process that I haven't posted

Beautiful builds. Loving the progress and the pictures.