Middleton-on-sea
Quoted from PinDeLaPin:Well if your going to have a small collection thats a damn fine collection to have.
What he said 
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Quoted from amxfc3s:My small collection
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For going 'small' you sure picked some good ones...
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Very nice set up . With that username I hope you're a fan of the mighty Hawks .
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Oh yes indeed I am, maybe we can get Stern to make a Hawks pinball
Quoted from Hawks:Oh yes indeed I am, maybe we can get Stern to make a Hawks pinball
Sounds good to me if you ever need a hand playing all those pins I would be more than happy to help out
Saddle Brook, NJ
Quoted from PinDeLaPin:Well if your going to have a small collection thats a damn fine collection to have.
Agreed! You would be hard pressed with something better than those three. Enjoy them!
Long couple days, running wire. Finally have domes and speakers working. The new garage area is now linked to the house so any music playing in the house can be played in the new area. All zone controlled so I can turn down or off the area in the garage if playing DDR or another game.
Jelly domes are now all linked as well. With a master unit controlling all other units throughout the house. The master is closest to the sub and operates off of bass. The whole house not pulses in sequence. I do still need add one more dome upstairs.
Still waiting for Galaxy Fire dart game that was supposed to be here five hours ago.
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West Dapto - Australia
Quoted from Wotto:All I can fit in, so I thought I may as well get a couple of goodies. And if ya need to nick in to the dunny it's pretty close by too
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For anyone wondering dunny is Australian for toilet 
Quoted from screaminr:For anyone wondering dunny is Australian for toilet
Very funny you quickly followed that post with an explanation. First thing I thought was, "What the hell is a dunny" 2 nice games by the way! Now excuse me nature is calling I need to go use the dunny.
Quoted from dudah:Bathroom in my basement...
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I have that same Star Wars comic book on the top shelf behind the Space magazine!
Quoted from dudah:Bathroom in my basement
Where did you get that Pinball Wizard sign? That's Awesome!!
Quoted from heni1977:Where did you get that Pinball Wizard sign? That's Awesome!!
Girlfriend found it on eBay. The cool part is there's 2 layers so 2 different colors show.
Last time my home office will look like this.
My 4-year love affair with LOTR is ending this weekend. (Gonna miss her)
Picking up a replacement at TPF in a few weeks! I just don't know what she'll be yet...
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Quoted from Wotto:All I can fit in, so I thought I may as well get a couple of goodies. And if ya need to nick in to the dunny it's pretty close by too
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Great to have you back Wotto. Deadpool is such a great game.
Had polyurea floor coating (“Domino”) installed on the concrete floor of my Gameroom and painted the dreary foundation walls white. Very happy w it. Shown are before and after photos.
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Huge improvement. Looks great.
Quoted from Flippingr8:Had polyurea floor coating (“Domino”) installed on the concrete floor of my Gameroom
That looks great! Is it some kind of an epoxy with flakes in it?
Quoted from weaverj:very nice.
Looks awesome! And the game collection is too. I would spend a lot of time in there and would consider movin a bed in there and sleep to enjoy the view as I feel asleep and wake up to see it first. Ok, maybe I went to far on that one...maybe
Quoted from gweempose:That looks great! Is it some kind of an epoxy with flakes in it?
Polyurea / polyaspartic acid floor coatings are the next generation after epoxy floor coatings. Much more durable. Had it put on my garage floor. They grind the concrete a bit, repair cracks, pitting, and holes, vacuum up the dust, put down the adhesive, then the chips which come in different colors, then a coating on top.
Quoted from ramegoom:My game room with the polyaspartic coating along with aluminum flakes in the mix. Started with blacking out the ceiling. Applied the floor finish after the initial framing and electrical. Then I had to cover the floor and finish the drywall and paint. [quoted image]
Where on Earth are you storing all that stuff?? You have one of my favorite rooms on here, I can't believe you moved all that stuff!
Quoted from yzfguy:Where on Earth are you storing all that stuff?? You have one of my favorite rooms on here, I can't believe you moved all that stuff!
Thanks for the kudos. I had to put in a special size passage door and a concrete stairwell just to get access to the room (originally started out as a 4 ft. square window). 44 in. wide 92 in. high. Having that custom-made took longer than the rest of the room. So I stored the contents off-site in a separate building, my garage, and in a 20 ft. box truck. Eventually it all fit.
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I’m finally getting settled in to the new house enough that I was able to start messing around (literally) in the basement room. I really wish it was a unfinished basement, because it would be so much easier running wires. So far I stripped all the old lighting and wires out of the ceiling and replaced them with four pot lights. I also added a second switch because there wasn’t one by the main entrance. Also the ceiling and walls are a layer of 1/2” drywall with 1/2” fiber board insulation behind that...
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How do you keep the snow melt out of the game room? I know you get some snow in loveland!
We go to Frisco, CO once a year for a week for snowboarding. Love the Rockies!!!!
Quoted from heni1977:How do you keep the snow melt out of the game room? I know you get some snow in loveland!
We go to Frisco, CO once a year for a week for snowboarding. Love the Rockies!!!!
Just what I was thinking. You have no drain. I have the same setup and constantly get water under the door.
Quoted from heni1977:How do you keep the snow melt out of the game room? I know you get some snow in loveland!
We go to Frisco, CO once a year for a week for snowboarding. Love the Rockies!!!!
There's a drain.... one of the shots is a picture of it in action.
There's a floor drain on the bottom. But, here in Loveland, this door faces southwest. Any snow accumulated gets vaporized by the sunshine. I still haven't used my snow blower here, which is typical of the winters we see. It's unusual to see melted snow when it does happen. Seems to go from solid to gas, no liquid in-between. The sun (325 days a year, they say) is our best friend.
Denver is another story though - they seem to get hammered when it snows. And the mountains get feet of snow, which they actually beg for.
Quoted from ramegoom:There's a floor drain on the bottom. But, here in Loveland, this door faces southwest. Any snow accumulated gets vaporized by the sunshine. I still haven't used my snow blower here, which is typical of the winters we see. It's unusual to see melted snow when it does happen. Seems to go from solid to gas, no liquid in-between. The sun (325 days a year, they say) is our best friend.
Denver is another story though - they seem to get hammered when it snows. And the mountains get feet of snow, which they actually beg for.
What about a hard rain? Will the drain keep up? Seems to me like trouble could be in your future...
It's actually a perimeter drain (drain tile) that goes around the entire house, into a sump pump inside the utility room. Supposed to pick up ground water ahead of the foundation in the event of major downpour.
But the house is up on a hill, and even the heaviest of rain doesn't seem to bother the system at all. I rarely hear the pump run. It's got a water alarm inside the well attached to security system so I'm notified if the pump fails. There's a huge catch basin probably 12 feet below my ground level and the torrential rain we had a few years ago only managed to fill the basin maybe 10 in. at the lowest point. No where near my house.
When I was in Illinois, my game room got flooded with rain water and I had 4 in. of standing water throughout the room. Several arcade games got trashed, along with whatever was on the floor. I left the state and found high ground here in northern Colorado. No more sleepless nights when it rains heavily.
Walk-thru some years back in my early game room days:
Yikes - flooding sucks man! Especially when you have valuable collectibles standing in water. My condolences!
Coincidentally, I used to live in Illinois and now live on high ground in the West too! Unfortunately, I no longer have a basement though. 
Quoted from jaytrem:I know a little about flooding. Can't believe my sump pump couldn't keep up! Didn't own any pins at the time, they would now be priority #1.
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Oh shit that's bad, I'd move.
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