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Zakk:
--- Quote from: Benevolance on September 28, 2009, 04:42:33 pm ---I was just reading the product descriptions and those strips are unbelievably awesome. Cat 5 for wiring the lights together? Wouldn't you want something a little lower gauge? Did you buy one of the kits that included a controller and power source or did you use your own?
Also, I meant to ask whether you did the bar top yourself?
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Did everything myself on the bar. MDF construction with oak ply veneer. Good looks at low cost.
The cat5 cable is pretty tiny inside. I could also have used telephone cable. I did this as I couldn't find spools of 28ga wire...I think the smallest I found was 16ga. Inside the network cable there are what, 8 smaller wires? I just used those.
Oh and I got the one with the transformer and remote. The remote is so so, but the lights are definitely bright.
Zakk:
--- Quote from: javeryh on September 28, 2009, 05:15:34 pm ---Awesome setup. Is that a real brick wall or did you make a faux one for the effect? Either way, I love it. :cheers:
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Well it's reclaimed brick slices, so it is and isn't real. PITA to install, as you have to use a non slipping thinset to mount the brick, and an 'icing tube' to install the mortar in between the brick. Hands were DAMN sore and achy when I got done with that. However, it really makes the bar. Gives it that pub feel, and since the bathroom is on the other side, it was a way of beefing up the sound deadening level of the wall. Inside is roxul safe and sound insulation, concrete board, thinset and then the brick and mortar. A bomb could go off (and might!) in the bathroom, and those in the bar won't have to hear it. ;D
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