Anyone build a bar w/ a Kegerator and Taps?

[Cape Brewing]

I love the floors in your place, especially around the pool table. Gives a great feel of age to the bar.

thanks... beleive it or not, that's the compliment I get the most and I love hearing it.

It's ledger board... basically the cheapest, crappiest wood you can buy at Home Depot. It comes in 16 foot lengths and is used for bracing during construction jobs. They hold up walls with it until they can secure the wall and then they rip the ledger board down and throw it away. It's pine with all sorts of knots, saw marks... dings.. I thought it was perfect for the look I wanted and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

The best compliment I get on my bar is someone will go down there, look at the floor and say, "Wow... the floor looks like it's been there 100 years".

The pics i have are crap too... I gotta get some better ones of the whole room

 

[mmb]

I wanted to reclaim some old barn wood and use that for the floors, but I was voted down by the budget officer at our house.

Not that it would have cost more. She didn't want "buggy wood" on the floor down there.

Your place looks awesome.

 

[Cape Brewing]

thx... it was a SH!!!!!!!TLOAD of work... It was bare concrete when I started, no walls, no electricity, no plumbing...

if she doesn't want buggy wood, ledger board is an option like I did it. Let me know if you're ever actually considering it though... there are definitely some tricks I learned.

 

[mmb]

thx... it was a SH!!!!!!!TLOAD of work... It was bare concrete when I started, no walls, no electricity, no plumbing...

I hear that. My before and after, after framing the basement of course..

 

[Cape Brewing]

Beautiful set up!!!

That's not buggy wood!!

 

[mmb]

Beautiful set up!!!

That's not buggy wood!!

Thanks, we enjoy it.

It's not wood at all. Laminate stuff. Looks nice but a pain in the *** to install and work with.

 

[Steel-Reserve]

Hey did you guys have to get a permit to do all that>? they both look hella nice!!

 

[Jester369]

I'm getting at is...can someone w/ minimal experience still make a great bar? How much experience did ya'll have?

Basic wood-butchery skills here. It helps to have some decent tools, but other than that, just pay attention to details and don't rush (and be safe!)

 

[Jester369]

Looks nice but a pain in the *** to install and work with.

Really? I did Pergo laminate and it practically installed itself. The only hassle in working with it was that it ate my saw blade over the course of the project.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Hey did you guys have to get a permit to do all that>? they both look hella nice!!

thx... nah... don't think I really needed one and if I did, not too worried about it.

 

[Torchiest]

Damn, guys, this bar porn is getting hotter and hotter.

 

[mmb]

Really? I did Pergo laminate and it practically installed itself. The only hassle in working with it was that it ate my saw blade over the course of the project.

A flooring guy I know let me borrow his laminate cutter when I put mine in. Looks just like a brick splitter and worked great on the end cuts. I'd never install again without one.

I had long runs on this project and everytime I got three or four boards together the whole row would pop off. Very frustrating when you are working by yourself at 2 in the morning.

 

[Cape Brewing]

yeah, I'm pretty sure i didn't need a permit... Maaaaaybe I should have gotten one for the electrical but even that I doubt. In my area, it's pretty much if you're going to make any structural chnges to the house, the footprint of the house or if yoiu're going to make a lot of noise that would bother the neighbors, you're supposed to pull one. I didn't do any of that.

"Bar porn"... that's funny...

 

[vincemash]

great ideas here

 

[Cape Brewing]

the url in that other post (barplans.com) was not correct, it led me to a bunch of adwords, Here is a site with lots of bar plans and ideas. The completed bar pictures are great for ideas:

Home Bar Plans

Holy crap! one of the bars they show scrolling through belongs to a guy in my brew-club and I'm seeing him tonight.

that's crazy... I didn't think he got any "plans" for it so I gotta ask him if he actually used that site.

 

[Dunk]

My Magic Chef does not seem to be tall enough for corny kegs (23"). How is the freezer unit removed from this refrigerator safely?

Greg

 

[dataz722]

The freezer unit usually cant be removed because it is what actually cools the entire thing.

 

[jimmcs06]

I have a wetbar in my home which is located next to the crawlspace, so I put a chest freezer in there, ran pvc pipe from the freezer to the wall, took a wooden 5 gallon keg and cut it in half, put the valve/fawcet on the end of the keg, ran the keg line inside the pvc pipe. works very nice. would post pics, but I don't see how to do that.

 

[jimmcs06]

I was able to upload pics of wetbar on mygallery