Anyone ever converted their garage?

While you are remodeling your garage, think about building the ASC Iso-wall. It is well worth the trouble and will provide you with a state of the art listening room. You could also contact Rives Audio. They will draw up a plan for you for a nominal fee.

Thanks for the responses guys! Did you do the work yourself? I'm thinking the ASC Iso-wall, staggered studs, and removing, the doors and tracks. My biggest concern is going to be HVAC. I might be able to extend the ductwork, as there are two runs that go to the rooms that join the garage wall (kitchen and dining room). I am reluctant to use electric baseboard in the room for the obvious AC reasons, and same with smaller, window-style air cond. units.

Slipknot1,

No, I didn't do the work myself. The home was built this way but this room is long overdo for a remodel. As far as the heating and cooling is concerned you will probably be okay and any heating contractor can do the calculations for you. I don't want to sound like I'm harping on you but the shed needs to be much larger than you probably think. It's the secret to long term happiness with what you are going to do.

My son and I did most of the rebuild, I laid treated 2x4's on their sides at 24 inch centers on top of the cement floor. Then I put 24" sheets of 1.5 inch insulation between the studs..I then laid .75 inch T&G sheets as floor. This gave me a warm floor in the winter and only raised the floor 2.5 inches. You could go with a gas fireplace or wall furnace for heat, I did not..I had a small gas furnace with 5 heat runs installed. I built a room across the rear and designed a huge muffler system for the cold air return (This setup is dead quiet which was a must). My garage was a drive through with two 8' doors on the front and one on the rear, the rear door was pulled and an 8' doorwall replaced it, I then installed large windows across the rest of that wall.

I framed new walls inside all the way around so as to have double walls (room inside a room) I pulled both front garage doors, one got a new much higher header and is now an 8' entry to the new room from the new dining room area, the other door area is now a double wall with the new garage on it's other side. The room is super insulated to hold heat and you could never tell it used to be a garage.

The power from the pole was moved to the side of the new garage, I had a 100 amp box installed in the new garage which feeds the new room with 3 dedicated 20A lines..a 15A line for a projector and plenty of extra wall outlets. The main house is still on it's own breaker box.

I could go on and on but I'm sure you get the Idea that this is well worth the trouble once you get it done the way you want it. My goal was to end up with a large room with little or no furnature/speaker placement constraints. I also designed this room with multichannel music setup constraints removed (no worry about speaker placement, speaker delay settings or bass management) and with the projector..no TV to muck things up.

Best of all.......NO WAF TO DEAL WITH EVER AGAIN!!!

Dave