Another Bar build

Well I finally got out of my apartment and into a house I own. And the Fiancé has been gracious enough to give me free reign over one particular room in the house. It is an unfinished room, about 120 sq/ft that needs some TLC and a little direction. This room sold the home to me because I had a vision from the first time I saw it. I will document my progress through this thread. First I am going to raise the floor to the level of the entry so there is not a step down and the room doesn't look so large. Then I am going to make an entry door into the garage so that I can get to my bar at all times. P.S. the garage is being turned into a game room with a pool table and TV's so there will definitely need to be access to the beer from there. I will build a small dry bar. I wanted a wet bar but running a drain to this area of the home was almost impossible. I will also put up a wine rack all along one wall. because I also make wine I will have plenty bottles to fill it. I will have my taps coming through the wall and have my keezer behind the wall that the room shares with the garage. Finally I will get a small Pub table to have a place to sit. I have some really crappy phone pics of the before and a crappy diagram of my plan. I wish I could do those really nice CAD drawings like I keep seeing here but that's over my head. I am halfway done with the floor so hopefully tonight I will have subfloor down and take better photos.

Good luck with the build, look foreword to seeing more picture of the progress. Sounds like you have a good plan. I like how it opens out to the deck but looking at plan and reading your post the room doesn't have a door to the inside of the house?

Im_Lars said:

Good luck with the build, look foreword to seeing more picture of the progress. Sounds like you have a good plan. I like how it opens out to the deck but looking at plan and reading your post the room doesn't have a door to the inside of the house?

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Correct, basically it shares a wall with my garage but its only entry point as of now is a door that can only be accessed from the outside, weird part is, its heated and cooled with 2 vents from the heat pump. my plan is to open up a door into the garage so that I can access it from the garage and not have to go outside.

I love these builds. Subbed.

Good luck! Can't wait to see more!

Ok so got a little work done tonight, got the floor framed out the rest of the way, I used 2x8's even though it is only an 10 foot span but i am putting tile on top of the subfloor so I wanted to make sure it wasn't going to move around. Also the guy who had this house before me must have had something cool in this room because there is a 120volt 15amp plug in there that is wired with some other 120 volt receptacles, something I thought was a big no-no. regardless I am gonna track it back to the previous receptacle and remove it. Maybe he had a generator in this room and this is where he plugged it in to backfeed the house, who knows.

Finally got the subfloor down and it is nice and solid. This weekend will be some big progress I hope, I am hoping to get the door in and start in the bar!

Congrats on house and the man room!

Well progress was a little slow on the count of having to remove 1 220 outlet, re-run another 220 line that goes to the heater in my garage and finally having to reroute 2 other 120 lines. I am tired of electrical, tomorrow i hope to fix all the drywall I had to cut out.

72Chevelle said:

Well progress was a little slow on the count of having to remove 1 220 outlet, re-run another 220 line that goes to the heater in my garage and finally having to reroute 2 other 120 lines. I am tired of electrical, tomorrow i hope to fix all the drywall I had to cut out.

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It's always something, no doubt!

Good luck with the build! Subbed!

So while I was doing the Mud on the drywall repairs I noticed that my heater plug had a burn spot on the plug. Personally I want to replace this, looks like just a bad connection caused it but I would be more comfortable with it replaced. I am wondering if I can just replace it with a normal oven power cord of if I need to buy this special cord. All the connections look the same. Any thoughts??

This is the type of situation that won't ever trip a circuit breaker and could cause a fire. Definitely replace the plug and give some thought to replacing the outlet too.

It's a viscous cycle where high resistance in the circuit causes heat, heated conductors are even more resistant to current... The heat may also change the temper of the contacts in the outlet causing them to be less springy, when the contacts aren't firm they cause .... more resistance. It is possible that the plug was fine but the screws attaching wires to the outlet weren't fully tightened.

Renoun said:

This is the type of situation that won't ever trip a circuit breaker and could cause a fire. Definitely replace the plug and give some thought to replacing the outlet too.

It's a viscous cycle where high resistance in the circuit causes heat, heated conductors are even more resistant to current... The heat may also change the temper of the contacts in the outlet causing them to be less springy, when the contacts aren't firm they cause .... more resistance. It is possible that the plug was fine but the screws attaching wires to the outlet weren't fully tightened.

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That's exactly what I am thinking, I am going to replace it with a standard 3 prong range cord. That way I replace the wire was well as the outlet. I appreciate the input, its stuff like this that has had me checking everything that has been done in the house 3 times over. I have found some interesting things. on a good note I found a few untapped 220 lines now. He had one hooked up for some type of spare dryer, and one hooked up for a welder. Plenty of room to expand into my electric setup down the road.

Very cool. Jealous and subbed!

I like it!

Just curious, but why didn't you stub a drain under that sub-floor before you put the decking down?

Or did I miss it?

Stealthcruiser said:

I like it!

Just curious, but why didn't you stub a drain under that sub-floor before you put the decking down?

Or did I miss it?

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there is no drain that I could tap into anywhere near that room so I had to make due, I had a plan to put a drain in, I think its called a sink drain, basically just a water only drain that leads out into the yard but I decided against it just because of the extra work (and cost) involved

Well a little update, one I am ashamed to admit to, I have 2 dewalt drills, one I generally keep as a driver and one for drilling, the one i use as a screwdriver decided the chuck needed to break so I went to grab my other one and couldn't find it. Finally after hours of searching my gut feeling was confirmed when I finally broke down and pulled up the last sheet of subfloor I laid a week ago. This is why I should not work when I am tired. On a good note I am moving right along with the drywall mudding. I have had to go back and sand all the walls down because the last guy decided to just spray the textured paint all over the walls. So basically I have to take down all the texture and finish mud all his joints, plus fix a few shortcuts that were taken by the last guy. Picture to come, hopefully painting this weekend.

Glad you found it. I HATE drywall and refuse to do it. Just hired someone to come hang/mud 9 sheets for the new brewery. Paying too much IMO but I absolutely hate it so biting the bullet on it.

got the pool table almost set up today, just waiting on the new felt to come in. paint goes up tonight, more photos to come.

Finally got an update. Got paint done which took forever, also got my taps done. I figured out a really cool idea. I found out that Lowes sells half barrel whiskey barrels to be used as planters for 30 bucks. I bought one and sawed off the bottom and mounted my taps to that. I am going to use an idea I found on here to set up a send and return pipe and use a muffin fan and pull cold air through the pipes.

That looks awesome, what a great idea. Might have to steal that when I do my own bar build down the road

So haven't updated in a while, things have been really crazy. Got married changed jobs a few times. Life hit the fast lane. I got a few pictures of the progress. I got my floor in and got some furniture. It's a little crowded but it has to double as my office. The large black cabinet opens up and is a full desk. Also my converted garage/pool room.

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awesome, looks great!

like the bottle rack. where did you get it?
nice use of a whiskey barrel...i got a small round pine table top iwas think of doing a graphic on and do the same thing with Taps

John Paul Stoddard said:

like the bottle rack. where did you get it?
nice use of a whiskey barrel...i got a small round pine table top iwas think of doing a graphic on and do the same thing with Taps

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I got the wine rack from my LHBS, it was just a pine rack and I stained it dark walnut. Here is the link if it ever gets available again

http://ebrew.com/product3899.html

Also if you ever do get one I highly recommend gluing all the joints, it is very weak if you do not

Thought i would post a couple of photos of my Garage where this bar leads into.
http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii541/reynola6/IMG_0108.jpg
Will try and get some photos up once I get a few other things finished

Hey did you install the split unit or have it installed? Is it a AC/Heater?

John Paul Stoddard said:

Hey did you install the split unit or have it installed? Is it a AC/Heater?

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It was in the house when I bought it. It is ac/heat and is more than big enough for my 2 car garage.

Looks good so far! Can't wait to see the finished product!