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Author Topic: Booth Floor Covering Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-15-2008 04:22 PM                  I'm finishing off my home screening room booth and was wondering what floor covering material I should use. There are pros and cons for both carpet and vinyl tile. I'm leaning toward the tile. The sub-floor is 2 layers of 3/4" plywood over 2x10 joists spaced on 16" centers. Your thoughts please...  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-15-2008 04:37 PM                        Concrete, poorly sealed. It was good enough for us at the Chinese 16. We loved it. So did our feet. And ears.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-15-2008 07:25 PM                     You NEED carpet Phil. If for no other reason than to knock the noise level down since you will be sitting less than 10 feet from the port window. Carpet is also awesome for people running reel to reel that aren't smart enough to use an automotive V belt instead of Roundthane (Spanish for "breaks during takeup).  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-15-2008 08:16 PM                     Phill, You didn't say what the foundation is. Is it concrete or is it wood? In a wood floor system, the booth floor should NOT touch or connect to the ported wall. If the floor and wall are connected, projector vibration will be conducted to and radiate from the booth wall. Also, alternate the studs of the ported wall so that the surfaces have separate studs for front wall and inside the booth wall thereby eliminating the transmission of sound between the wall surfaces. (Think broadcast control room to studio) I have found battleship linoleum is an excellent floor covering material for cleaning and for lack of seams like tile. If you use fireproof carpet on the walls there will be a remarkable amount of sound absorption as the parallel hard surfaces of the walls make a great echo chamber. KEN OK Tim, so I'm showing my age! [ 01-16-2008, 07:23 AM: Message edited by: Kenneth Wuepper ]  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-15-2008 08:19 PM                       The battleship linoleum was SOP for ages.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-15-2008 10:36 PM                     tile under and around the machinery, then carpet for the rest of the room.. Like this pict - -Monte  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-16-2008 07:59 AM                        C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T C-A-R-P-E-T WITH C-A-R-P-E-T YOU CAN ALWAY'S TAKE A NAP......  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-16-2008 10:21 AM                     Phil, I am greatly honoured to throw my hat in the ring for an industry veteran such as yourself! I am a newbie in comparison to you, but here goes: Of all the booths/screening rooms I've worked in, I'd have to cast my vote in the way of carpet. Much kinder to your ears and feet in my experience, plus it looks the part, too!  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-16-2008 11:17 AM                     Oil, grease, film-guard, beer, and pop corn oil. You know that's how it's going to end up, might as well start it out that way.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-16-2008 02:53 PM                       I like Monte's idea, I'd forgotten that. It's very functional and a good compromise. I've always been opposed to carpet under a machine for the reason that it's nearly impossible to keep clean. The inevitable oil drips and accidents that occur quickly muck them up.  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 01-16-2008 03:12 PM                        I would vote for carpet on the walls and concrete floors with the projector/lamp-house and film handling all sitting on the rubber AC floor mounts rubber mats to walk on. That should give you a nice sound absorbing booth and comfort to walk on. Make it the big thick feet saver type of floor mats!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-16-2008 03:30 PM                     Here's a full carpeted booth...with a catch cardboard sheet used for drippy CineV-8's: Carpet used was that indoor/outdoor short nap variety stuff. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 01-16-2008 03:37 PM                        My problem with carpet in the booth in commercial application is the dust that gets attracted and the static. the there is the projectionist running a vacuum? Only the women ones regularly is my experience!!!  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 01-16-2008 04:15 PM                        While I prefer Concrete in the booth, I do agree that Carpet has it's advantages such as reducing projector noise levels over concrete and other things that were mentioned here. The main booth at my theatre has Carpet while projectors #1 and #10, which are in separate booths, have tile flooring which is a lot noisier than the main booth.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-16-2008 04:22 PM                  quote: Ron Funderburg I would vote for carpet on the walls and concrete... floors Ummm perhaps you didn't read the part that this was a ***HOME*** screening room w/a wood floor and NOT a commercial installation...DUH! While I like the idea of tile, the carpet thingie seems like the logical way to go. Hey Brad and Tim, I have a 1970's green shag carpet...do you think that would work OK?  |  IP: Logged

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