Studio Build Thread

Looks fabulous guys, the only thing I don't like the name..... purely personal taste of course. :)
 
Just read through this thread, looks superb guys, well done and good luck! :)
 
The exposed Steel beam has been Painted and the frame work for the wood celling has been put up. The insulation and wiring will have to be done first though.

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Office space is getting painted, trunking has been put in for electrics (strip lights are just rigged as a temp measure)

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Starting to get the staining and finishings done in the gallery. Wire lighting has been put in but the transformer keeps tripping the breaker :thinking:

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The little lights on the wire are ace, daylight balanced 5w LEDs for highlighting the pictures

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Still a ton of bigs jobs to do, the celling, staining the celling, painting the big receptions walls.

Not to mention the near 150m of copper piping that has to be put in for the heating system! :'(
 
It'll be well worth the effort & hard work at the end. I'm impressed! Been following this thread with interest for a while & it's amazing just how much you've transformed the space.
 
Looks fantastic guys, well done. I'll be sure to pop in at some point.
 
IamAshlyRose said:
It'll be well worth the effort & hard work at the end. I'm impressed! Been following this thread with interest for a while & it's amazing just how much you've transformed the space.
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Thanks Ashly, I looked back through the pictures last week and I amazed myself!


We're kinda relying on it being such a welcoming and inviting space that people will talk about the place for both the photo work and the feel.
 
It does look stunning, very professional job indeed.

Are prices going to match the quality of the studio? Who's your target?
 
Looking fantastic. What a great space and stunning area you've turned it into.

Looking forward to seeing the finished article.

Will be keeping an eye with interest

Jo
 
Just a thought , how are you going to heat / cool the unit . Buildings like these are usually hot boxes in summer / fridges in winter .
 
BigJohn said:
Just a thought , how are you going to heat / cool the unit . Buildings like these are usually hot boxes in summer / fridges in winter .
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Yeah, we were conscious of that when starting out so we've built in about about 300m^2 of insulation.

Each room will then also be heated by a number of radiators depending on its size.

If required we'll get some portable air con units for the summer but I don't think that will be required.
 
At the moment there is no heating in the building. Its basically a giant fridge. Its been pretty warm outside but the building is massively insulated and doesn't let any of the heat in. This kinda leads me to think it will keep its heat pretty well in the winter.

The portable aircon units might well be a shout, a little untidy but might do especially at the rear of the building under the front shop.


Thanks for all the positive comment too - its heartening to get good feedback on what we've done to the place.
 
Stevie- said:
The portable aircon units might well be a shout, a little untidy but might do especially at the rear of the building under the front shop.
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Hey, if you get a chance check out Baby Gap in the Braehead Centre (ground floor). I was in there today and noticed they have a few big Aircon type units but they looked quite stylish and not obtrusive - I think they had some sort of custom built box around them or something. I didn't pay too much attention but worth a gander at the least. :)
 
Is it sad that this is the first topic I always come to when i open the forum??

Cracking job gents
 
I've been watching in awe and also click on this thread first of all :-)
 
Stevie- said:
Office space is getting painted, trunking has been put in for electrics (strip lights are just rigged as a temp measure)

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Are those walls plasterboard? why have you gone with trunking and not used the wall cavity for your cables? If you were running trunking for ease of use then why not tri compartment and run your data through it as well? You should ideally be putting 2 data points in with each bank of power sockets even with the VoIP phones 2 points allows the use of additional phones and network printers.i would also even put 2 extra cables in and not terminate them for possible future use, make the cables long enough to go to the ends of the trunking. You can never have too many data points.
 
JRJ said:
Is it sad that this is the first topic I always come to when i open the forum??

Cracking job gents
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If you select to subscribe to the threads you post in you will get notified if anything changes in them (very useful) :) Not that I want to put you off coming here! lol
 
Little John said:
You can never have too many data points.
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Definitely, plus it's a pain in the backside plus expensive getting people back in later to install new data points.
 
Isn't that a little slow for LAN?
 
Power line Ethernet adaptors are great for those odd ball locations where cabling is difficult or would cause disruption but should not be in your thoughts if you are still building the place. I have a pair for the TV, there are some good and some bad ones and it doesn't always matter what speed they claim a 500mb one can be quicker than a 1gb one due to the chipset it uses.
 
I remember trying a Netgear powerline and it didn't work, but then I don't know how the electrics are setup in my house etc. as it's fairly old.

USB has a max. speed of 480Mbs if that helps give an idea of speed. That's over twice the powerline one (you can get faster ones of course) if all running at peak and wouldn't the powerline also be subject to chipset restrictions?

I think that whilst you have good access I'd just get a dedicated LAN setup, but there are probably much better IT guys here to advice, perhaps worth a shout in the Computer section?
 
Networking has been plenty quick enough at 100mbps for the last 10 years gbit is quicker but everything needs to be gbit and some gbit items are a lot more expensive compared to the 100mb options but definalty get the cables in the walls even if you don't plan to use them a box of cat5e will cost you about £40 its well worth having it in than messing about later even if you don't terminate them just in the walls incase you need them in the future will save a lot of time and hard work.
 
As others have said, for the sake of your sanity later, you should cable in Cat 5e now. It's relatively cheap to do now and will cost a fortune to retro fit.

I don't know what you're planning on running around the network, but it'd be a real shame if the entire experience was ruined for £100 worth of network cabling. And thinking about it - it could be.

Customers would be rightly impressed by the ambience you're creating - then you create some fab photo's and when you sit them down to order - the end result is a stuttering slideshow.
 
Files are getting bigger (re. D800, HD Video Footage etc). Even SAGE are recommending Gigabit networking for the Line50 series because 100Mbps isn't quick enough for all the data read/writes.
 
Just taken the last 90minutes to read and digest all of this thread, amazing work. So much attention to detail too even down the the Einaudi song choice in your portfolio video on you web site.

Gareth
 
Just in - hours are getting longer.

I'm gonna be totally honest and reply with

"I haven't a clue"

I'm not much of a network techy kinda guy so I can follow the gist of the advice above but no the finer detail.

What I can tell you is the the trunking was used due to the construction of the old and new walls. The walls are all 6x2 studs, not really easy to be ripping up and the layout of the office area was very much in flux at the time on initial construction. The whole layout has been very fluid.

Cat 5 cable has been mentioned and what I can tell you is that anything that has to be retrofitted is actually minimum fuss by feeding them over the studio space and fished down the back. The joiner and electrician are friends so things are done on very good rates and to a fantastic standard by them both.

The areas you see approaching completion account for probably a 3rd of the total space, maybe a little more.

with regards to the networking thing am I right in thinking I we can run a Mac as a sort of server with all connected computers able to access all the files on the mac?

I would like all the photos and the studio management software in particular accessible for everywhere.

Thanks everyone for all the positive feedback!
 
If you want a server buy a server, there are limits to the amount of different systems can access data sources when in a workstation environment and it doesn't work so well. As for using a mac Iw ouldnt be spending so much money on a mac then tieing it up with providing data to all the other systems, but yes you can share files from a mac and access them on a pc.
 
I have a 10/100 router coming into my house. I gacve added a gigabit switch to that and from the Gigabit switch I hgave attached my Synology NAS server, a printer, my computers (can be mac or PC) using CAT5e cables. It's very fast and all computers attached to the network can access the files and can send to the printer.

If you have a wireless router you can also access the network wirelessly and print if you need to - it's just slower but you can still access everything.

Have you thought about a backup system too?
 
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