Chronicling the build out of Tim's new loading room.

[Graves]

What a dump. Ikea, right??

As soon as I saw the title I knew jealousy was only a click away.

[Tim K]

Pics of the flooring. It comes with the underlayer. I'll hook up anyone who's interested.

[Irving]

Thanks Tim.

[Great-Kazoo]

Looks empty without a 1050...

Christmas is coming.

Just 1 ?

[Tim K]

[wyome]

You have any more flooring available? Our room is 10x10

[asmo]

[Ah Pook]

The floor was some used stuff I picked up from a friend. He has 6,000 sqft. and is selling for $0.75/sqft. I can hook you up if interested.

I'd be interested in about 700sf. Not trying to high jack the thread, so please PM.

Nice looking rooms!

[Tim K]

I'm stuck and I need some help. I can't figure out what to do about the lights. I have a bunch of ceramic single bulb fixtures on the ceiling. I can leave them, but they're ugly. It's also under-lit since I removed the even uglier fluorescents. I'm thinking I'll do some track lighting in a couple of places, but what I'm really after are some fixtures I can use to replace the ceramic fixtures that will put out a lot of light. When I first built this room I had 200W bulbs. They were bright, but expensive to replace. I'd like something more modern like LED if possible. Of course, I'm also out of budget, so cost is an issue.

I need a clever idea. Lay one on me.

[Irving]

LED florescent style lights are pretty cheap and provide a better light quality. It's difficult to explain, but the light quality goes further with LEDs. You ever see people with grow lights that have them right on top of the plant? That's because while the lumen output is high, it degrades wiggly over short distance. The quality light goes "further," imo, than with a regular florescent bulb. I noticed that when replacing a compact florescent bulb with an equally rated LED in my closet, I could see the floor (and how dirty it looked) much better.

I know this all sounds weird out of context, but I believe that in person you'd understand what I meant. Also, while more expensive up front, LED bulbs are stupid cheap to run and extremely durable. I have an LED bulb in a flexible desk lamp on my reloading bench (LED isn't as hot sitting right next to my face for hours), and I use it while working on/under my car. I've knocked this lamp over into the floor, or into the engine bay, probably 30 times now and it has never once broken. Not as big of a deal with a mounted light, but at least you won't be taking any mercury and glass showers if you bump a light with a broom sick or long rifle or something.