Congrats on this finally coming together, the new studio looks like it's gonna be great! Down for a studio-warming party once it's complete? Although with heat like that I guess the studio is pretty warm already but eh, y'know. The upcoming HVAC will take care of that ;)
Wow thank you for this insight! I was wondering the big difference in price. Why would a contractor not want the job? I thought any job is good for a contractor as they get paid for it right?
@@keiko6125 After they get established contractors all have a profit sweet spot. They will look for jobs that bring in their desired profit levels. If a job is too small and won't generate big enough profits, they'll either never get back to you or give you a stupid high quote.
@@Barnaby0014 the thing is its a small job that isn't a person doesn't want to do it, it's the fact that workers need to feed their families and between that or a house they'll choose a house because it'll pay more. The 2nd contractor also was way too high as well.
@rogerwilco99 Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and all these old electronics make for really interesting RUclips content for us too young to have experienced it for ourselves
I appreciate it, too, and I'm an American! It makes me happy to see other Americans that are aware of the rest of the world. I'm sorry that is in short supply at the moment.
Just take a minute to think about the fact that this man is dealing with a contractor, running networking cables, planning a layout for a studio, making a video game, and making a fully functional computer all at the same time.
Movie trailer voice-over: In a world where studio space is scarce, and gardening equipment must be secured, Morgan Freeman and the 8-Bit Guy star in OPPOSITE STUDS.
@@TheeCK1357 Not only US, in UK where I live at the moment, I don't think I ever saw a basement in a "regular" home building. Instead you have some sort of attic, barely accessible and usable at all... Anyway, it's only one of the few really weird "quirks and features" about UK or England in general... Where's logic...
I gotta say, I always appreciate your storytelling style. This genre of content generally tends to lack narrative flow and structure (outside of a few strong outliers like TechnologyConnections & Techmoan) so your videos always stand out to me. Cheers.
Wow, I'm impressed with how much you get done in that small space, it would drive me NUTS! - We're in Plano, so not that far from you and we ended up decided it was a better choice in the long run to just get a second house to film in. My problem is I ended up with too much square footage, it isn't effectively used due to having so much space. I also used to film in a bedroom, so I overcompensated... One of these days, I'd love to come see your studio and invite you to mine to do a cross tour if you like.
The one recommendation I would make is borrow the “standing desk kitchen island” from Linus. It looks very particle and yo do not end up with a fixed height counter. I think when Neil at RMC re did his set he also went standing desk.
Okurka we someone who manages a team of people who field service home wireless routers, I can tell you the future is most certainly NOT wireless. Band congestion, interference and the simple fact customers are not educated on what WiFi can and can not do are big issues without resolutions. Wiring up a house with Cat6 is far superior to wireless as it resolves these issues for most devices, bar smartphones. If laptops, desktops, consoles as well as smart TVs, and set top boxes were wired up that is a lot less congestion on the WiFi.
Smashing! Great progress. I'm torn between keeping signature design and re-inventing some new and fresh. Your blue scheme is kinda your signature. For continuity, it would be nice to keep it... however, there is also no real reason not to go for something different too. I would suggest making a workbench that is functional for you more than keeping it just like the original. This is kinda where @LinusTechTips and @FireballTool should come in and make something fresh and funky while keeping functionality in place. ^_^
Yeah I'm inclined to agree about the signature look, at least to some extent. You always know it's a 9-Bit Guy video when you see that setup. And David too of course.
Retro Recipes Haha, yeah. You’re right about that. Maybe he should upgrade to The 12-Bit Guy? Thinking lime green and streaks of azure blue could be fun! :D
@@whiskeywisdomplus well he spent most of the video talking about how he got everything built on the cheap, so it’s not surprising. You get what you pay for.
@@whiskeywisdomplus PVC conduit is less expensive, easy to install, and lasts forever. The only reason not to use it is either not knowing any better or being too cheap to buy a heat gun to bend it and glue to weld it together.
7:20 for the curious, concrete never really stops curing. Conventional concrete (without accelerant or other additives) is considered to reach “design strength” after 45 days, but it will keep curing well beyond that. For example, an elevated slab would not be strong enough to hold its own weight until a couple of weeks after pouring. But none of this matters much for a foundation slab with the tiny load of a one level wood structure (not a licensed engineer in the US, this is not structural advice, etc. etc.).
Also... from another engineer working in regulatory compliance (i.e. building consenting / permits) I was curious as to no mention about ground investigations. In my city (old river silts and sand, coastal and prone to vertical and horizontal settlement and liquefaction in an earthquake) we require, even for a small accessory building on a residential property, the carrying out of site specific and extensive geotechnical investigations to determine the soil profile and it's bearing response for the load placed on it. Certainly in my city that foundation design would be inadequate. In my city it's pretty much all concrete slab foundations (usually on ground that has been improved by grout injection or a stabilised gravel raft) and timber framing. Cladding here is mostly brick or composite (wood cellulose fibre, sand, cement) weatherboards. Occasionally people do tilt-slab concrete (poured as panels on site and then lifted to become walls). Commercial building of course would undoubtedly be similar to most country's methods... "Siding" as such is not, and never really has, been used here as a cladding. Interesting to get a glimpse into another country's foundation solutions and building methods anyways :)
I have a large concrete slab in my backyard. It used to be the town's icehouse about 100 years ago, before anyone had refrigerators. Its 5 feet thick x 12' wide x 28' long. I built a small apartment on top of it for my father to move in with us. Drilling into it is almost impossible. Even with a hammer drill, just getting a 1/4" bit through it is nearly impossible.
If you want to see more of this type of content (assuming you mean the building portion of the video) then check out this out house and yes they have a RUclips channel (obviously call this old house) they have tons of videos of this type of content 😎👍
I guess I'm lucky out here 'bout 110km from Wagga, with a 1950's-era house on a nice 50x18m block (was 50x20m when the land was set back in the 50's, but lost a 2m slice to street-corner neighbour some years before moved in due to surveyors using mid-90's GPS coordinates that hadn't been updated in like 15 years to accommodate for a 2m shift of the ground, and the house wasn't actively lived-in at the time. but eh, whaddya gonna do?). Only cost like $55K Aussie back in 2013 Got a nice big barnyard-type shed (even had old tractors in it when moved in back in Dec '13!) that currently stores like 90% of our belongings along with the frames for a kit house & kit shed that we wanna put up at some point once can afford to lay the concrete and such. Either that or sell the kits off and build something more appropriate for the block. My plan for the yard would to be setting up a granny flat-type building and move my hobby gear (like my model trains) and recording studio out to that to help free up some space in the current house for other things like being able work on and sort out our collection of PC's going from the Core2's all the way back to 386's (not to mention some other things like the C128 we got boxed up in the shed), so we get as many of them working and operational as DOS, 98 or XP retro gaming boxes or be able to sell them to a museum or something as working systems for display collections.
@@ElNeroDiablo sounds amazing. A whole house full of tech. I know about the problem too well. Heck, I'm just at university right now and probably have accumulated like ~20 PCs in my small apartment.
"This smaller room here has its own door and will serve as the outdoor storage shed my wife wanted. Its 58sq feet which should be more than enough" -8Bit Guy Two weeks later...
Part 2 spoilers: "So as it turns out, my wife needs a lot more space for her gardening tools, so we're going to be knocking down the wall between the studio and shed areas of the building."
Kind of bittersweet, knowing that the old videos will all seem nostalgic, having been filmed in the old studio. On the plus side, this prevents David from being featured on a future episode of Hoarders: IT Edition.
7:20 The downgrade they did on the porch right there is impressive. That is harder to do than it looks. Probably only a half inch but it looks precise.
I agree.... as a civil designer, I paused the video and zoomed in to see how they sloped the porch slab. Very precise concrete slope there... I see retro brighting in that porches future. Nice work, Dave!
Araiguma Alice Kiruno hahahahaha if morgan freeman was secretly irl friends with him and there was just a sound clip in the background, “this’ll be a nice studio”
I was giggling when he said the first GC said 100K, that GC used an RSMeans catalog to figure that pricing. I work for a Commercial GC firm and we use RSMeans pricing when we are just trying to blow someone off. Good On ya for not just rolling over for the first guy.
Yeah, that was insanely overpriced for what he needs. The guy was just trying to pull a fast one. I'm sure he's saving a ton by doing a lot of the work himself as well.
When I used to do service work for overhead cranes and companies would call to get quotes, we would triple the price for places we didn't want to work in. Sometimes they would surprise us and actually pay, though. :D
When the slab goes down, it looks big. Then the frame goes up and it looks small. Then the drywall goes in and it looks big again. I noted the half-second flash of the pen marks on the conduit; Dry install, mark it up, take it apart and re-assemble to the marks. We have solvent-weld piping in the UK, but I've never seen a primer available to use before the solvent cement. That said, I don't know why you're in my recommends, but as building designer I enjoyed it anyway.
The primer is actually only supposed to be used on white PVC for waste and vent piping, along with the clear solvent cement. If you don't use purple primer you will fail plumbing inspection in the US. Electrical conduit uses grey solvent cement and no primer. Since he was just running fiber in that conduit there is no code so he's fine.
As someone who's recently bought their first house in the UK and is currently taking the time to run Cat7A network cable to every room, and has ran OM3 Fibre to the garage using underground ducting, I can seriously appreciate this video! I've spoken to lots of different trades and none of them really 'get it'. My job is in the IT sector and my hobbies are all video game and technology related, so having extremely reliable networking is key - I just wish our internet provider agreed!! Can't wait for Pt. 2
That's the first time I've heard someone use Cat 7A, let alone in a commercial aspect! Have you noticed any differences against using it with traditional Cat 6 or 6A? Sounds totally cool! PS: I am from Australia
@@therealverdikt Hey, it's an odd cable standard as the proper keystones and terminations are awkward (GG45). I was forced to run Cat7 or higher (S/FTP) because of a specific requirement for my Hi-Fi system. I collect Bang & Olufsen Hi-Fi equipment from the 80s up to present day and in the 90s they brought out a multi-room system based on Masterlink cable. It isn't practical to run that in walls and under floors in 2020 but B&O now recommend Cat7 S/FTP and terminating it with Cat6A keystones, then using adapter cables to the older Masterlink equipment. The reason I went with Cat7A is because it is S/FTP by default in the standard (as far as I can tell), so it ensure I would get the right quality of cable with very high shielding. I'm part way through the project and have yet to rent the fluke certification tool to run interference checks on the cable etc, but I can say for now the cables that are terminated and in use work very well! Amazingly even Cat8 is now a thing, it all seems to be moving very fast now a days. I'm really excited for the day I get to convert the garage into my home arcade but that won't be for another year or so yet.
As a Brit, I did some work on houses in Vail, CO. One trip I took a few UK tapes which caused a bit of wonderment on the sites. The metric-only ones caused some head-scratching, but they 'got' the mixed metric/imperial which are widely used through the UK. 30 years later they may even be in some display cases in contractors' homes somewhere in the USA.
@referral madness: I often whistle that tune to my tiel, but none of them sing anything other than the default cockatiel song (not even _Andy Griffith,_ which they love).
@Justin PinkertonMorgan's voice - "When I first laid eyes on the 8-bit guy I didn't think much of him. He had a way about him, almost like he lived in his own little digital world from the 80s. It wasn't until he asked me for a contra band Ethernet connector that I smuggled past the guards in my butt that I talked to him. It's fair to say I liked him immediately."
I'm so happy for you about your new building! I hope it suits you just fine. :) Now, if you would consider an advise from an unknown dude on the internet... I suggest you leave the doors opening outwards. That makes it easier to exit the building in a case of emergency and the space those doors would take to open inwards might prove valuable in the future. I mean putting something at the wall right next to the door might be acceptable if there isn't anywhere else to store it, but if the door needs that space to open properly storing something there would be out of the question. You can tell I speak form experience. XD
Fire code says you need to keep all doorways clear a minimum 36". Same with power panels. Agree on outward-opening doors either way though. They're much harder to kick in if someone were trying to get in.
Living in New England, I'm surprised that buildings are built with 2x4's on the exterior walls. Here code is 2x6 to get more insulation, which is just as important in cooling as it is in heating.
That's just the tip of the ice burg. There's a lot of overlap, but building codes vary state by state and things like spray foam insulation vs fiberglass also vary a lot.
I would also run 1" empty conduit or PVC around the room and between rooms. This provides for adding anything later. For example security sensors or cameras, or phone lines (for any low voltage signals - I used my old phone lines for a doorbell system.) That empty conduit can be fished later for wiring. Looks like your pre-installed wiring is all stapled to the studs.
@@RandiRain The 40 year average low for Texas is 40o during the night. In a space that small simply being in the room would practically bring it up to 60o. I'd be surprised if, with all the equipment running, the average ambient temp ever dropped below 65o without a space heater. Not negating what you said at all, btw, just expanding upon it. He probably will run a space heater sometimes maybe. AC for SURE.
“If you’ve made it this far...” Haha! More like, “If you’re disappointed the video isn’t a half hour longer...” 🤣 Super excited to see the finished studio!
Yeah. In Portland, OR, I doubt I could even get a contractor to give me the time of day for $36k, let alone build an entire accessory unit. Not to mention that the permit process would drag on for months on end.
If you've ever watched a show like "The Price is Right" and then attended a taping of the show in person, you'll know exactly what David is talking about. On TV, the studio that Price is Right is shot in looks quite large. In reality, it's quite small - smaller than a lot of high school auditoriums. I think the way cameras and camera-shots work have a lot to do with the perspective on how large or small something appears to be. Good luck on the new studio!
This is so amazing! I can't wait to see the finished set! :D As for the countertop conundrum, what if you got several project benches, on lockable castors? You could have 3-4 foot long workbenches that you could line your side room with, each with their own project, and when you're ready to film one, you could wheel it in to your studio room, do your wonderful thing, and wheel it back to the side room when you're done? Hot-swappable projects! Minimal set-up and tear-down! you could store many ongoing projects! :D
Wow, you always did such a great job framing up the camera in your old studio that I never even noticed how messy the room looks, because it always looks perfect in your videos. I can’t wait for this new project to be complete! I can’t imagine not having a basement to store stuff, because as I think you said in a past video, there would be stuff all over my house. Keep up the good work!
I agree. Maybe hes concerned about security with having the hinges accessible from outside? But exterior doors that open outward should come with a tamper proof type of hinge.
@@John-yy1oy Doors that open inwards are notoriously easier to kick in because there is no door frame supporting it. You can get doors that open outwards with inaccessible hinges. Also, 3 in screws should be used in securing the door and lock if not even longer screws. A criminal or assailant is a lot more likely to try and kick open a door then do some lockpicking lawyer style heist.
I like the corner idea but I think having more of a L would be better, that way you can do 2 camera angles and show 2 different things off without having to clean off the counter every time. You could theoretically do 2 different videos without putting either project away
Imagine driving through a big city and seeing a sky scraper that just says 8-Bit Guy on it lol Also working on a new game while working on an original computer while building a new building. When do you sleep?
Hey neighbours, as a German guy, I like that you at this type of buildings can easy route new cables or outlets. I had to do this at a brick house from the 20s and it was a mess.
Another European (German) comment here. Seeing how they built the walls of the building explains why houses in the United States are so much cheaper than in Germany. Of course, apart from the central areas of cities, land to build on is much cheaper to begin with, but that method of construction is cheaper (and faster) as well. On the negative side they may not last as long as some of the massive buildings here (we have buildings that are hundreds of years old in places where WW2 did not cause total destruction), but at the same time I don't think this is that much of a problem if you can replace the buildings more easily. Having been to Texas I think he will need to install air conditioning. Heating likely depends on his preference, as I have been to Texas in winter time and didn't even consider wearing a jacket. But being from Germany I am used to a colder climate, so he may see it differently. But the equipment installed in there should produce some amount of heat already, so this shouldn't be as much of an issue as air conditioning will be. As I know David speaks some German, I can say Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum neuen Studio! ;-)
Wow, congrats on such a huge upgrade! Personally, I've been watching videos set in this studio since the iBook Guy days and it's become kind of iconic so for me it would be nice to keep it the same or maybe modernise it while keeping the core layout and color scheme.
That was really interesting & is looking great! And I didn't even know PCBWay did concrete delivery - amazing! Speaking of cool, I didn't see any A/C ducting going in but I'm sure you'll be adding that. 😅 If not, just use one of your biggest fans. 🤣
I read this and didn't look at the author. Read the one of your biggest fans line and instantly thought, "Only Retro Recipes could make a pun that bad."
A famous example of a room that's smaller than it looks on camera is (was) the NASA Mission Control that was used for Apollo. I got to see it, right when they were announcing that the first prototype Space Shuttle would be named "Enterprise". Some time after that, they started running missions from other rooms. Now they've restored it to the Apollo-era look as a museum (not all the equipment works, IIRC).
That looks like an awesome building so far! When I re-wired my mom's house after we had the fire, I ran smurf tubing, it's a sort of flexible non-metallic conduit to run cable through, it's so named because it's smurf blue! That way, even though I have Cat-6 and RG6/QS in it now, I can pull something newer and better through it if the need arises. For your new studio, I'd almost say add a big-screen TV somewhere, to use for diagrams, or things to show while you're making videos. Alternatively, when you're working on something, it can double as a magnified screen for what you're working on on the bench. Also, storage, storage, storage! I, like you, am often stumped when I need to set a project "aside" and have no place to put it! You may also want to integrate some UV retrobrite lighting and look into some track-lighting, like was popular in the 70s and 80s (It's still available) but loaded with very bright studio LED lamps - modern lights use much less wattage than the older tungsten-based lamps, and, being on tracks, you can add and reposition them to suit the needs of a particular shot. Since the lights use much less power, you can put a lot more of them on a track and still not go over the power rating. I'm considering doing an indoor retrobrite setup, driven by a C64, since here in New England, the summer season is quite short. Also, consider a phone out there or some sort of intercom between the two buildings. It will save the hassle of running between them for messages! Even with your current studio, your videos are always first-class, and I love seeing them. I can't wait to see your new studio finished and of course, the new game!
Running fiber-optics between two electrically separated portions of your building is actually a very smart thing to do. Even more so if not all of the power sockets inside your house come with ground. I don't know how it is in the US, but here where I live that is the case, especially if your building is somehwat older, say like 25+ years or so.
This old house is one of my favorite shows and its sad that rodger is no longer with them and it feels like a part of the show died after rodger left but he did choose the best replacement for him and i hope rodger lives a long and happy life in retirement 😎👍
I used to watch your videos 10 years ago when your were the iBook Guy, and now you have 1.2 mil subscribers and the need for a new studio. Congrats man, I'm glad youtube worked out for you.
You would have to assume he is going to install one of the units that goes in the wall you see outside of the US a lot. With all the electronics, there is no way that doesn't have AC.
I can't believe how little insulation there is.... and the concrete slab basically is a heat sink that transfers heat from the outside into the building.... guess that is just normal stuff in the US though
@@olik136 I mean. theres not even any insulation in the walls yet tho. but yea. generally our insulation is far to inaccurate. usually just r19 in the walls and some in the roof too. thats really it. if you notice most of the slab is actually just ground, this is a practice used cause it limits the heat sponge aspect of concrete while remaining strong.
@@olik136 Don't know how it works where you are, but in North America we typically finish the wiring and plumbing inside the wall before installing insulation.
You made all that look so easy! All my projects take forever, 3 trips to the hardware store to exchange parts, get the parts I should have the first time, and on and on. And I'm talking about small projects, not wiring a studio!
Part 1: Working during a heat wave, yet makes no mention of plans for HVAC in the new building... Part 2: Hiding the fact that HVAC was only decided upon _after_ Part 1 aired. All kidding aside, glad to see you're able to do this for yourself.
@@Geardos1 For a studio, all the HVAC noise must be kept outside the sound padded room, with any cooled air or coolant entering in a way that neither conducts pump noise nor sounds like wind brushing through cloth or liquid howling through pipes.
@@Geardos1 So what if he needs another circuit? It looks like the feeder from the house is 60 amps, and air conditioning for something that size will surely require no more than a 20a breaker. That leaves 40a (9.6 kVa) left for everything else, which is way more than enough.
It blows my mind how many people actually think he wasn't going to put HVAC in this and actually commented about it. The fact you think this guy in TEXAS only considered HVAC halfway through the project is very funny.
@@Keovar Oh FFS - I hope you're joking and it just went over my head... He looks enough like Morgan Freeman for it to be funny. End of story. Why do you have to take something humerous and make it a racist thing? Do you have some kind of a problem with black people?
@@Keovar triggered. Your the reason we can't have free speech. If he looked like Mike tyson would you be here trolling too? Don't get butt hurt cis I'm sure nobody else is so deep thinking as you or we'll brainwashed by the media.
@Tangobaldy ffs they just expressed a concern and did it in a nice and calm way, do you really have to attack them? they didn't even state a fact or anything, they just expressed a concern. irrational? maybe, but clearly not an aggressive one
9:55 Square D has an older series of panels only having 20 spaces and code where I am dictates you need to have 2 spares minimum. Upgrading to a 200 amp service or a subpanel connected to 2 positions is the usual way to get around that.
I agree. His house panel looks like 150 amp main which is typical for the age of his house. Upgrade to a 200 amp and run his studio off a sub with a seperate SSD. Im from Fl so the codes are different but you would need to install a new meter combo on the out side first and then feed his existing panel and new sub from there.
That would be a very costly upgrade. He'd probably need a new drop from the power utility, possibly a new meter, and the new panel and complete rewiring of all the breakers. Not a trivial upgrade.
@@aaron74 He might only need a new panel if the conductors are deemed adequate. I don't see that companies would change the service feed based on that. They would base it on how much power they might need in the future and have conductors capable of it. additional: My house had a subpanel with an arc welder outlet for 40 amps added back in 1995 for the previous owner, and the work order stapled to the wall shows they replaced the panel and added a subpanel but left the service and meter the same and added a subfeed for the old house panel inside the house. The meter was changed to a smart one a few years back.
That first 100k figure is a "I don't want to do the job" price 😉
I think you're right.
Exactly. Just had something similar happen to me. It would be too simple to just tell the customer they dont want to do it, wouldnt it?
sure but what would they do if he agreed on that price? :D
@@The8BitGuy When a guy says "36k", you should then follow up with "And how much if I pay cash?". Almost guaranteed to shave off another 10%
"That sounds fine"
"Ah, but, err..."
Congrats on this finally coming together, the new studio looks like it's gonna be great! Down for a studio-warming party once it's complete?
Although with heat like that I guess the studio is pretty warm already but eh, y'know. The upcoming HVAC will take care of that ;)
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Of course LGR had to come with the structure being.. WOODGRAIN.. and all lolol
Today I learned The 8-Bit Guy is just as interesting even when he's not explaining tech. Can't wait for part 2
its 100% his voice
It's the video editing and the process. It's not the fact he's a techie, it's the fact he's a good editor/entertainer.
Ikr i cant wait for part 2
This is really fun to watch, great work so far I'm looking forward to seeing the final build
Having dealt with many contractors in the past when you're given a ridiculous quote it's their way of saying they don't want the job.
Agreed 100%. I have heard this many many times, if a contractor doesnt want to do the job they quote you some absurd amount.
Wow thank you for this insight! I was wondering the big difference in price. Why would a contractor not want the job? I thought any job is good for a contractor as they get paid for it right?
@@keiko6125 After they get established contractors all have a profit sweet spot. They will look for jobs that bring in their desired profit levels. If a job is too small and won't generate big enough profits, they'll either never get back to you or give you a stupid high quote.
@@keiko6125 Could be equipment availability, poor match with areas of expertise, existing high-paying contracts taking up time.
@@Barnaby0014 the thing is its a small job that isn't a person doesn't want to do it, it's the fact that workers need to feed their families and between that or a house they'll choose a house because it'll pay more. The 2nd contractor also was way too high as well.
Man, that was a lot of progress for one episode.
"So I built an 'L' shaped studio with a square porch."
Basically you're just playing Tetris with your house...
He's lucky the whole thing didn't just disappear!
@@catfish552 if he made the roof look like a tetrimino, that would be cool!
@@_unreel I'd be putting a cloth roof over the " porch " since that isn't considered a permanent structure.
@@catfish552 😆😆😆
"I wasn't expecting that Morgan Freeman would be my electrician" lmao
yes this is a surprise
Lucky man
I paused here .. n found this comment 🤗😇😂
With such an upgrade, they might just have to start calling him the 16-Bit Guy.
Imagine when Building a 3 story Building or a mini Burj Khalifa... 😱 the posibilties are endless !!!
Daniel A what
Lmao if he got a mansion he would be the 4k guy lol
With or without blast processing?
@rogerwilco99 Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and all these old electronics make for really interesting RUclips content for us too young to have experienced it for ourselves
This is going to be amazing!
Hi retro future I am such a big fan
Yeah
hi elliot
Thanks all :)
Good day elliott
The addition of metric measurements are appreciated :)
I appreciate it, too, and I'm an American! It makes me happy to see other Americans that are aware of the rest of the world. I'm sorry that is in short supply at the moment.
Yeah. That 12' 2 1/2" label was painful to read.
Yes, the metric system is much more practical imo, especially for small measurements (yes I know he wants doing very small measurements)
I'm USA btw
This whole video is code for: The wife wanted her bedroom back.
And it only cost him 36k!
@@Metalders Just imagine if the bottom fell out of youtube next week
@@phonotical He is one of the few that has a lot of support on Patreon.
@@ianhanschen because life is cruel, also the rule of irony
@@ianhanschen TISH, YOU SPOKE FRENCH!
Just take a minute to think about the fact that this man is dealing with a contractor, running networking cables, planning a layout for a studio, making a video game, and making a fully functional computer all at the same time.
And filming and editing RUclips vids.
I was thinking the same thing.
Yeah, he needs to get out more.
And running a popular RUclips channel!
He's not really making the computer, almost all the work is done by volunteers. He'll just make money selling it.
Movie trailer voice-over: In a world where studio space is scarce, and gardening equipment must be secured, Morgan Freeman and the 8-Bit Guy star in OPPOSITE STUDS.
"Opposite Studs"
... O_o errr...
What kind of movie is this gonna be?
@@EngineeringVignettes: He couldn't get Bob Vila, Richard Karn had other commitments, and thankfully Tim Allen was unavailable.
Man houses without basement lose a ton of storage space don't they?
Yep, basements aren’t too common in the South Central US due to clay and a high water table.
Oh and did you plunge a grounding rod for the building?
Attics
@@TheeCK1357 Not only US, in UK where I live at the moment, I don't think I ever saw a basement in a "regular" home building. Instead you have some sort of attic, barely accessible and usable at all... Anyway, it's only one of the few really weird "quirks and features" about UK or England in general... Where's logic...
@@override7486 The logic is a wet country with a high water table.
I gotta say, I always appreciate your storytelling style. This genre of content generally tends to lack narrative flow and structure (outside of a few strong outliers like TechnologyConnections & Techmoan) so your videos always stand out to me. Cheers.
Wow, I'm impressed with how much you get done in that small space, it would drive me NUTS! - We're in Plano, so not that far from you and we ended up decided it was a better choice in the long run to just get a second house to film in. My problem is I ended up with too much square footage, it isn't effectively used due to having so much space. I also used to film in a bedroom, so I overcompensated... One of these days, I'd love to come see your studio and invite you to mine to do a cross tour if you like.
Hello, and welcome to Tech Deals!
A Tech Deals and 8-Bit Guy crossover would be awesome!
The one recommendation I would make is borrow the “standing desk kitchen island” from Linus. It looks very particle and yo do not end up with a fixed height counter. I think when Neil at RMC re did his set he also went standing desk.
Agreed, a standing type desk would be a good option depending on the project.
@tinylilmatt I think he meant "practical".
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Join us next time on “This Old Studio”
Classic! :)
LOL
8-bit would be perfect for: The New Yankee Studio.
Love how Covid has basically turned every tech tuber I follow into a DIY channel.
The beauty of deadly viruses
Great video! Best of luck to you on the new studio! 😄👍
Vinyl Eyezz hi
@@sodorfootage Nice to see so many familiar faces gathered
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Ayyyeee welcome!
"I didn't wanted to build a wooden shed": Proceed to build a wooden shed :-D
I can't imagine how the next owner of your house will be surprised when he will see the sheer amount of cables everywhere
*annoyed
The future is wireless.
@@Okurka. not when your neighbors also have wifi and interferes with yours do to lack of channels.
Okurka we someone who manages a team of people who field service home wireless routers, I can tell you the future is most certainly NOT wireless. Band congestion, interference and the simple fact customers are not educated on what WiFi can and can not do are big issues without resolutions.
Wiring up a house with Cat6 is far superior to wireless as it resolves these issues for most devices, bar smartphones.
If laptops, desktops, consoles as well as smart TVs, and set top boxes were wired up that is a lot less congestion on the WiFi.
6G wireless tech in the future will save a lot of precious copper.
@@haweater1555 yeah and 5G hasn't even been successful deployed yet.
Smashing! Great progress. I'm torn between keeping signature design and re-inventing some new and fresh. Your blue scheme is kinda your signature. For continuity, it would be nice to keep it... however, there is also no real reason not to go for something different too. I would suggest making a workbench that is functional for you more than keeping it just like the original.
This is kinda where @LinusTechTips and @FireballTool should come in and make something fresh and funky while keeping functionality in place. ^_^
Yeah I'm inclined to agree about the signature look, at least to some extent. You always know it's a 9-Bit Guy video when you see that setup. And David too of course.
Retro Recipes Haha, yeah. You’re right about that. Maybe he should upgrade to The 12-Bit Guy? Thinking lime green and streaks of azure blue could be fun! :D
@@AndersEngerJensen Now you're being ridiculous!
Retro Recipes Of course I am. 🤷🏼♂️🤪
@@AndersEngerJensen 🤭
I'm an electrician and that bare EMT run underground hurts my soul... it's going to rust out before you know it
@@whiskeywisdomplus well he spent most of the video talking about how he got everything built on the cheap, so it’s not surprising. You get what you pay for.
@@whiskeywisdomplus PVC conduit is less expensive, easy to install, and lasts forever. The only reason not to use it is either not knowing any better or being too cheap to buy a heat gun to bend it and glue to weld it together.
That electrician look like one of those guys that works only when he needs more Beer... we have a lot of those handy men here in Michigan!
Just remembered out of nowhere that 8-bit guy is Dimebag Darrell's cousin
Oh yeah, when he casually mentioned it in a keyboard video
@@riceexe I like How he says that like is something common lol
He really is? Well, sadly z he TECHNICALLY hasn't been his cousin in like what, almost 15 years?
Yesterday I was watching a Vinnie Paul's interview and remembered that he was 8-bit guy cousin.
@@riceexe Which one?
So happy for you!!
I bet that LGR is doing a wood-grain interior design right now.
You need aircon in there. I couldn't imagine being in 40 degree heat all day
I think that somehow he already knows that...
@@Peugeot306 Well he didn't mention it or show it.
@@StabStabStabStabby Part 2
A big thank you for taking the time to put meters in.
The real question is: Will you retrobright the outside walls?
Self-retrobrighting. Hot Texas sun will take care of that.
Yes but only after about 20 years in the sun :D
Underrated comment.
7:20 for the curious, concrete never really stops curing. Conventional concrete (without accelerant or other additives) is considered to reach “design strength” after 45 days, but it will keep curing well beyond that. For example, an elevated slab would not be strong enough to hold its own weight until a couple of weeks after pouring. But none of this matters much for a foundation slab with the tiny load of a one level wood structure (not a licensed engineer in the US, this is not structural advice, etc. etc.).
"This is not structural advice"
From one engineer of a different kind, I love that line.
The concrete at the bottom of the Hoover Dam in Nevada was poured in the 1930s and probably won't cure until the year 3400 or so
Also... from another engineer working in regulatory compliance (i.e. building consenting / permits) I was curious as to no mention about ground investigations. In my city (old river silts and sand, coastal and prone to vertical and horizontal settlement and liquefaction in an earthquake) we require, even for a small accessory building on a residential property, the carrying out of site specific and extensive geotechnical investigations to determine the soil profile and it's bearing response for the load placed on it. Certainly in my city that foundation design would be inadequate.
In my city it's pretty much all concrete slab foundations (usually on ground that has been improved by grout injection or a stabilised gravel raft) and timber framing. Cladding here is mostly brick or composite (wood cellulose fibre, sand, cement) weatherboards. Occasionally people do tilt-slab concrete (poured as panels on site and then lifted to become walls). Commercial building of course would undoubtedly be similar to most country's methods...
"Siding" as such is not, and never really has, been used here as a cladding.
Interesting to get a glimpse into another country's foundation solutions and building methods anyways :)
I have a large concrete slab in my backyard. It used to be the town's icehouse about 100 years ago, before anyone had refrigerators. Its 5 feet thick x 12' wide x 28' long. I built a small apartment on top of it for my father to move in with us. Drilling into it is almost impossible. Even with a hammer drill, just getting a 1/4" bit through it is nearly impossible.
It also really helps the cure to keep it wet, We kept a sprinkler on our slab for a week.
I could watch this video for hours without getting bored. Can't wait to see part 2
If you want to see more of this type of content (assuming you mean the building portion of the video) then check out this out house and yes they have a RUclips channel (obviously call this old house) they have tons of videos of this type of content 😎👍
@@zahraiouscormathious1778 I'll check it out. Thank you :)
I won't complain about downsizing back into my old 50sqm lab!
And we don't have enough room in the backyard to build a studio anything at home.
I guess I'm lucky out here 'bout 110km from Wagga, with a 1950's-era house on a nice 50x18m block (was 50x20m when the land was set back in the 50's, but lost a 2m slice to street-corner neighbour some years before moved in due to surveyors using mid-90's GPS coordinates that hadn't been updated in like 15 years to accommodate for a 2m shift of the ground, and the house wasn't actively lived-in at the time. but eh, whaddya gonna do?). Only cost like $55K Aussie back in 2013
Got a nice big barnyard-type shed (even had old tractors in it when moved in back in Dec '13!) that currently stores like 90% of our belongings along with the frames for a kit house & kit shed that we wanna put up at some point once can afford to lay the concrete and such. Either that or sell the kits off and build something more appropriate for the block.
My plan for the yard would to be setting up a granny flat-type building and move my hobby gear (like my model trains) and recording studio out to that to help free up some space in the current house for other things like being able work on and sort out our collection of PC's going from the Core2's all the way back to 386's (not to mention some other things like the C128 we got boxed up in the shed), so we get as many of them working and operational as DOS, 98 or XP retro gaming boxes or be able to sell them to a museum or something as working systems for display collections.
I didn't realize your lab was that big in the first place!
Wow so many neat RUclipsrs commenting on this video.
That "new" lab was pretty nice until it started leaking.
@@ElNeroDiablo sounds amazing. A whole house full of tech. I know about the problem too well. Heck, I'm just at university right now and probably have accumulated like ~20 PCs in my small apartment.
The Electrician: [narrating] David Murray - who crawled through a river of retro computers and came out clean on the other side.
shaw shank reference .lol
because they all look alike
@@ChrisD4335 Did you even watch the video? This isn't an "all black guys look the same" situation, the guy is the spit of Morgan Freeman!
@@scottsyoutubevideos first thing that popped I to my mind when he said he looked like Morgan freeman 😂
"This smaller room here has its own door and will serve as the outdoor storage shed my wife wanted. Its 58sq feet which should be more than enough" -8Bit Guy
Two weeks later...
To be fair, 58 square feet is much larger than 0 square feet.
But it’s really +116sqft because of the freed space in the garage
Part 2 spoilers:
"So as it turns out, my wife needs a lot more space for her gardening tools, so we're going to be knocking down the wall between the studio and shed areas of the building."
640 KB should be enough for anybody.
@@JonathanKayne I see no issue with this logic!
Kind of bittersweet, knowing that the old videos will all seem nostalgic, having been filmed in the old studio. On the plus side, this prevents David from being featured on a future episode of Hoarders: IT Edition.
7:20 The downgrade they did on the porch right there is impressive. That is harder to do than it looks. Probably only a half inch but it looks precise.
Yeah that pour is a thing of beauty.
@@JustinRiedyk 7:17 and no concrete job is complete without this vid " Concrete Buffer Gone Wild " on the channel " Spencer Laboda "
I agree.... as a civil designer, I paused the video and zoomed in to see how they sloped the porch slab. Very precise concrete slope there... I see retro brighting in that porches future. Nice work, Dave!
Everything about that concrete job looked incredibly well done
"I didn't expect Morgan Freeman will be my electrician" - This cracked me up. ROTFL.
Acting just doesn't make much money anymore I guess.
it would be even more funny if real morgan freeman comes out from nowhere
ya, me to ;)
Araiguma Alice Kiruno hahahahaha if morgan freeman was secretly irl friends with him and there was just a sound clip in the background, “this’ll be a nice studio”
He empathized with the life of an electrician for a new movie!!
I was giggling when he said the first GC said 100K, that GC used an RSMeans catalog to figure that pricing. I work for a Commercial GC firm and we use RSMeans pricing when we are just trying to blow someone off. Good On ya for not just rolling over for the first guy.
Someone should call Louis Rossmann
Louis: "Hello everyone, how's it going?"
"Let's talk about sketchy Texas construction firms"
Yeah, that was insanely overpriced for what he needs. The guy was just trying to pull a fast one. I'm sure he's saving a ton by doing a lot of the work himself as well.
Why don't you people just say "No, sorry, man, we won't do it!" - that at least would be honest :)
when a contractor quotes you an outragous price it's basically them saying "this isn't worth my time but I don't want to outright refuse the job"
When I used to do service work for overhead cranes and companies would call to get quotes, we would triple the price for places we didn't want to work in. Sometimes they would surprise us and actually pay, though. :D
The_BluFalcon how amoral of you.
@@blu_falcon6321 Someone is going to hell...
exactly
@@blu_falcon6321 that’s smart
Make a modern interpretation of the set of the “Computer Chronicles” show that was on PBS
YES
Also get Stewart Cheifet to co-host. He's pretty old but still totally sharp.
8-bit Guy is the perfect guy do do that!
@@-taz- He's sharp as a tack. He would be a wonderful guest of 8-bit Guy.
When the slab goes down, it looks big. Then the frame goes up and it looks small. Then the drywall goes in and it looks big again. I noted the half-second flash of the pen marks on the conduit; Dry install, mark it up, take it apart and re-assemble to the marks. We have solvent-weld piping in the UK, but I've never seen a primer available to use before the solvent cement.
That said, I don't know why you're in my recommends, but as building designer I enjoyed it anyway.
The primer he used is PVC purple plumbing primer.
@@OfficiaFoxDeltaGames I can't find a primer here, but we can/do use a solvent cleaner before the weld cement.
The primer is actually only supposed to be used on white PVC for waste and vent piping, along with the clear solvent cement. If you don't use purple primer you will fail plumbing inspection in the US. Electrical conduit uses grey solvent cement and no primer. Since he was just running fiber in that conduit there is no code so he's fine.
@@NickHorvath It could be that it's because our solvent-weld piping is ABS, not PVC.
@@terencejay8845 Yes, ABS uses different solvent cement.
It's looking AMAZING! I'm glad I was able to stop by right before COVID hit. What timing. x_x
Ayyyyyyy Ken
Zachary Cameron yo
Hi Ken!
RigaRiggleMan hi!
Hey Ken
As someone who's recently bought their first house in the UK and is currently taking the time to run Cat7A network cable to every room, and has ran OM3 Fibre to the garage using underground ducting, I can seriously appreciate this video! I've spoken to lots of different trades and none of them really 'get it'. My job is in the IT sector and my hobbies are all video game and technology related, so having extremely reliable networking is key - I just wish our internet provider agreed!! Can't wait for Pt. 2
That's the first time I've heard someone use Cat 7A, let alone in a commercial aspect! Have you noticed any differences against using it with traditional Cat 6 or 6A? Sounds totally cool!
PS: I am from Australia
@@therealverdikt Hey, it's an odd cable standard as the proper keystones and terminations are awkward (GG45). I was forced to run Cat7 or higher (S/FTP) because of a specific requirement for my Hi-Fi system. I collect Bang & Olufsen Hi-Fi equipment from the 80s up to present day and in the 90s they brought out a multi-room system based on Masterlink cable. It isn't practical to run that in walls and under floors in 2020 but B&O now recommend Cat7 S/FTP and terminating it with Cat6A keystones, then using adapter cables to the older Masterlink equipment.
The reason I went with Cat7A is because it is S/FTP by default in the standard (as far as I can tell), so it ensure I would get the right quality of cable with very high shielding.
I'm part way through the project and have yet to rent the fluke certification tool to run interference checks on the cable etc, but I can say for now the cables that are terminated and in use work very well!
Amazingly even Cat8 is now a thing, it all seems to be moving very fast now a days.
I'm really excited for the day I get to convert the garage into my home arcade but that won't be for another year or so yet.
@@Davey656 Cheers for the lengthy explanation, good luck with your certification and your project!
“metric land”, better known as “the world” 😅
Jokes aside, this is going to be great, congratulations!
Reminds me of _Super Mario Land_ on the original Game Boy.
As a Brit, I did some work on houses in Vail, CO. One trip I took a few UK tapes which caused a bit of wonderment on the sites. The metric-only ones caused some head-scratching, but they 'got' the mixed metric/imperial which are widely used through the UK. 30 years later they may even be in some display cases in contractors' homes somewhere in the USA.
Big deal. Intergalactic space is imperial. Get used to it
@referral madness: I often whistle that tune to my tiel, but none of them sing anything other than the default cockatiel song (not even _Andy Griffith,_ which they love).
@Rodger Yiis Ethernet is a communication technology not a type of cable... Fibre also uses Ethernet....
9:42 "I wasn't expecting that Morgan Freeman would be my electrician." - Job opportunities have been harsh during these lockdown times.
Also I like how different are their "styles" of wiring ethernet vs wiring power 😅
@Justin PinkertonMorgan's voice - "When I first laid eyes on the 8-bit guy I didn't think much of him. He had a way about him, almost like he lived in his own little digital world from the 80s. It wasn't until he asked me for a contra band Ethernet connector that I smuggled past the guards in my butt that I talked to him. It's fair to say I liked him immediately."
@Chris Falk The Shawshank Redemption actor?
All of those power outlets and ethernet cables looks like heaven
This is fantastic. Congrats on the new studio!
If the next episodes turn into home-improvement projects, I’m all for it.
I'm so happy for you about your new building! I hope it suits you just fine. :)
Now, if you would consider an advise from an unknown dude on the internet... I suggest you leave the doors opening outwards. That makes it easier to exit the building in a case of emergency and the space those doors would take to open inwards might prove valuable in the future. I mean putting something at the wall right next to the door might be acceptable if there isn't anywhere else to store it, but if the door needs that space to open properly storing something there would be out of the question. You can tell I speak form experience. XD
Fire code says you need to keep all doorways clear a minimum 36". Same with power panels.
Agree on outward-opening doors either way though. They're much harder to kick in if someone were trying to get in.
@@Sun-ut9gr Great points, I didn't know about that regulation. Also didn't realize the security perspective of the matter so thanks for sharing. :)
When I saw this I was like "Oh I've never seen this 8 bit guy video before" then realized it was uploaded like 30 minutes ago Lol
Same here
Same
Living in New England, I'm surprised that buildings are built with 2x4's on the exterior walls. Here code is 2x6 to get more insulation, which is just as important in cooling as it is in heating.
That's just the tip of the ice burg. There's a lot of overlap, but building codes vary state by state and things like spray foam insulation vs fiberglass also vary a lot.
I would also run 1" empty conduit or PVC around the room and between rooms. This provides for adding anything later. For example security sensors or cameras, or phone lines (for any low voltage signals - I used my old phone lines for a doorbell system.) That empty conduit can be fished later for wiring. Looks like your pre-installed wiring is all stapled to the studs.
Tardis blue walls and “bigger on the inside” - is David a time lord?
It's called a wide angle lens 😉
I thought the electrician looked more like Eli Vance from Half-Life 2.
nice catch
Didnt expect HL2 fans in The 8 Bit comments
Yes but his prosthetic leg is missing
Would really like to see the Part 2 of this. I love watching things like this, and how ideas come together!
I didn't see heating or AC... That has to be in the second part.
Being Texas, the only heating he needs is to turn on a few computers.
Who needs heating when he has all those computers?
@@brandonfrancey5592 - I know you're joking, but that's not true at all. It gets cold here.
The best option would probably be ductless units in just the two rooms he'll use.
@@RandiRain The 40 year average low for Texas is 40o during the night. In a space that small simply being in the room would practically bring it up to 60o. I'd be surprised if, with all the equipment running, the average ambient temp ever dropped below 65o without a space heater.
Not negating what you said at all, btw, just expanding upon it. He probably will run a space heater sometimes maybe. AC for SURE.
“If you’ve made it this far...” Haha! More like, “If you’re disappointed the video isn’t a half hour longer...” 🤣 Super excited to see the finished studio!
Well said.
Exactly my thoughts. I'm just fascinated about his content!
for a structure that size done professionally i'd say you got a good deal.
Yeah. In Portland, OR, I doubt I could even get a contractor to give me the time of day for $36k, let alone build an entire accessory unit. Not to mention that the permit process would drag on for months on end.
You had me at
> I wasn't expecting that Morgan Freeman would be my electrician
🤣
its like 2 of my favorite Saturday activities, watching the 8-Bit Guy and This Old House rolled into one.
Except he doesn’t upload that regularly.
If you've ever watched a show like "The Price is Right" and then attended a taping of the show in person, you'll know exactly what David is talking about.
On TV, the studio that Price is Right is shot in looks quite large. In reality, it's quite small - smaller than a lot of high school auditoriums. I think the way cameras and camera-shots work have a lot to do with the perspective on how large or small something appears to be.
Good luck on the new studio!
This is so amazing! I can't wait to see the finished set! :D As for the countertop conundrum, what if you got several project benches, on lockable castors? You could have 3-4 foot long workbenches that you could line your side room with, each with their own project, and when you're ready to film one, you could wheel it in to your studio room, do your wonderful thing, and wheel it back to the side room when you're done? Hot-swappable projects! Minimal set-up and tear-down! you could store many ongoing projects! :D
I like how he showed exactly what was happening, it made it more interesting, and you learn stuff too
Wow, you always did such a great job framing up the camera in your old studio that I never even noticed how messy the room looks, because it always looks perfect in your videos.
I can’t wait for this new project to be complete! I can’t imagine not having a basement to store stuff, because as I think you said in a past video, there would be stuff all over my house. Keep up the good work!
10:45 Why? You'll just reduce space with inside opening doors.
You can't put anything in front of the entrance anyway
I agree. Maybe hes concerned about security with having the hinges accessible from outside? But exterior doors that open outward should come with a tamper proof type of hinge.
@@John-yy1oy Doors that open inwards are notoriously easier to kick in because there is no door frame supporting it. You can get doors that open outwards with inaccessible hinges. Also, 3 in screws should be used in securing the door and lock if not even longer screws. A criminal or assailant is a lot more likely to try and kick open a door then do some lockpicking lawyer style heist.
@@mastrtonberry2 Yeah, but it drags dirt in.
I hope it's insulated or you'll fry in there.
Looks great though!
he didn't mention it but I hope he puts a AC unit in the shed.....
@@jeremys3174 there is no way he wouldn’t, you can’t sweat like crazy on camera it’s not exactly a good look
@@jama211 I know he didn't say it
The first thing I thought of was how heating and cooling will work. I sure hope this isn't an oversight, but I doubt it is.
@corey Babcock Requires a lot of power, hopefully the electrical can handle it.
I have no idea what you're doing or talking about half the time in most of your videos, but they're just so fun to watch. I love it.
"My brother runs the geek pub"
WHAT! I had no idea
Of course we made it all the way to the end, the video is amazing, David. Good luck with everything!
Was seriously hoping you would move into the TARDIS.
cant wait for part 2
I am SO excited to see more of that game that'll run on a PET!
🇨🇦
I like the corner idea but I think having more of a L would be better, that way you can do 2 camera angles and show 2 different things off without having to clean off the counter every time. You could theoretically do 2 different videos without putting either project away
Imagine driving through a big city and seeing a sky scraper that just says 8-Bit Guy on it lol
Also working on a new game while working on an original computer while building a new building. When do you sleep?
And imagine the 32 bit guy from the future " We are at the former offices of the 8 bit guy. . . "
Awesome video. Love how new studio is shaping up.
Strange to see these wooden buildings, here in The Netherlands it is all bricks and mortar.
Was thinking the same thing (France), but it looks actually quite convenient and fast to build.
Hey neighbours, as a German guy, I like that you at this type of buildings can easy route new cables or outlets. I had to do this at a brick house from the 20s and it was a mess.
Cheaper - I wonder how he is going to heat it, or maybe in Texas, cool it.
@@jendib Convenient, fast, inexpensive , and easy to modify, especially on a continent with trees covering a good chunk of it.
Another European (German) comment here. Seeing how they built the walls of the building explains why houses in the United States are so much cheaper than in Germany. Of course, apart from the central areas of cities, land to build on is much cheaper to begin with, but that method of construction is cheaper (and faster) as well. On the negative side they may not last as long as some of the massive buildings here (we have buildings that are hundreds of years old in places where WW2 did not cause total destruction), but at the same time I don't think this is that much of a problem if you can replace the buildings more easily.
Having been to Texas I think he will need to install air conditioning. Heating likely depends on his preference, as I have been to Texas in winter time and didn't even consider wearing a jacket. But being from Germany I am used to a colder climate, so he may see it differently. But the equipment installed in there should produce some amount of heat already, so this shouldn't be as much of an issue as air conditioning will be.
As I know David speaks some German, I can say Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum neuen Studio! ;-)
Wow, congrats on such a huge upgrade! Personally, I've been watching videos set in this studio since the iBook Guy days and it's become kind of iconic so for me it would be nice to keep it the same or maybe modernise it while keeping the core layout and color scheme.
That was really interesting & is looking great! And I didn't even know PCBWay did concrete delivery - amazing! Speaking of cool, I didn't see any A/C ducting going in but I'm sure you'll be adding that. 😅 If not, just use one of your biggest fans. 🤣
I have to assume that there's going to be some insulation added and a small A/C, at least a window unit.
Well that'll be easy - his biggest fans are watching this on early access!
Because as we all know, PCB stands for Perifractic's Concrete Base, doesn't it?
I read this and didn't look at the author. Read the one of your biggest fans line and instantly thought, "Only Retro Recipes could make a pun that bad."
most likely will be a wall unit. like a mini split or something the like, that can split its output into both rooms.
A famous example of a room that's smaller than it looks on camera is (was) the NASA Mission Control that was used for Apollo.
I got to see it, right when they were announcing that the first prototype Space Shuttle would be named "Enterprise". Some time after that, they started running missions from other rooms. Now they've restored it to the Apollo-era look as a museum (not all the equipment works, IIRC).
I love DIYers that actually know what they are doing. Great work, can't wait to see the next part.
That looks like an awesome building so far! When I re-wired my mom's house after we had the fire, I ran smurf tubing, it's a sort of flexible non-metallic conduit to run cable through, it's so named because it's smurf blue! That way, even though I have Cat-6 and RG6/QS in it now, I can pull something newer and better through it if the need arises.
For your new studio, I'd almost say add a big-screen TV somewhere, to use for diagrams, or things to show while you're making videos. Alternatively, when you're working on something, it can double as a magnified screen for what you're working on on the bench.
Also, storage, storage, storage! I, like you, am often stumped when I need to set a project "aside" and have no place to put it!
You may also want to integrate some UV retrobrite lighting and look into some track-lighting, like was popular in the 70s and 80s (It's still available) but loaded with very bright studio LED lamps - modern lights use much less wattage than the older tungsten-based lamps, and, being on tracks, you can add and reposition them to suit the needs of a particular shot. Since the lights use much less power, you can put a lot more of them on a track and still not go over the power rating. I'm considering doing an indoor retrobrite setup, driven by a C64, since here in New England, the summer season is quite short.
Also, consider a phone out there or some sort of intercom between the two buildings. It will save the hassle of running between them for messages!
Even with your current studio, your videos are always first-class, and I love seeing them. I can't wait to see your new studio finished and of course, the new game!
I like the idea of the TV, he used to have 2 monitors on the wall, but took them down and put a keyboard display up instead
smurf tube is for power circuits you should have used yellow ENT for communications lines.
Blue ENT is for electric. Other colors are for network.
WIRED ETHERNET MASTER RACE.
Will always be the fastest most reliable networking solution.
*fiber optic joins the chat*
*fiber optic was kicked from the chat for not being practical*
@@user2C47 A thin flexible cable is less practical than a thick one that needs shielding from electricity?
Running fiber-optics between two electrically separated portions of your building is actually a very smart thing to do. Even more so if not all of the power sockets inside your house come with ground. I don't know how it is in the US, but here where I live that is the case, especially if your building is somehwat older, say like 25+ years or so.
and Fibre will always be the easiest solution to grounding differentials between outbuildings.. always wired!
I am delighted about your " channel having grown so fast" "problem" It is well deserved! And a new game!!!
Ok having watched this channel for years, I have to admit: the theme song always makes me happy. 😎
Also to me.😊👌
I think theme music is an undervalued part of a quality youtube channel.
"Well... get busy caulking, or get busy wiring."
I see what you did there.
Came for 8-Bit Guy, stayed for This Old House. o.o
This old house is one of my favorite shows and its sad that rodger is no longer with them and it feels like a part of the show died after rodger left but he did choose the best replacement for him and i hope rodger lives a long and happy life in retirement 😎👍
I used to watch your videos 10 years ago when your were the iBook Guy, and now you have 1.2 mil subscribers and the need for a new studio. Congrats man, I'm glad youtube worked out for you.
I hope you'll install air conditioning in the building!
You would have to assume he is going to install one of the units that goes in the wall you see outside of the US a lot. With all the electronics, there is no way that doesn't have AC.
He'll probably install a split unit
I can't believe how little insulation there is.... and the concrete slab basically is a heat sink that transfers heat from the outside into the building.... guess that is just normal stuff in the US though
@@olik136 I mean. theres not even any insulation in the walls yet tho. but yea. generally our insulation is far to inaccurate. usually just r19 in the walls and some in the roof too. thats really it. if you notice most of the slab is actually just ground, this is a practice used cause it limits the heat sponge aspect of concrete while remaining strong.
@@olik136 Don't know how it works where you are, but in North America we typically finish the wiring and plumbing inside the wall before installing insulation.
Dreams come true❗I like 8-bit guy and old computers. from Japan.
13:37 "When this baby hits 88, you're gonna see some serious sh*t!" - Doc Brown - Also... 1337!!!
You made all that look so easy! All my projects take forever, 3 trips to the hardware store to exchange parts, get the parts I should have the first time, and on and on. And I'm talking about small projects, not wiring a studio!
Part 1: Working during a heat wave, yet makes no mention of plans for HVAC in the new building...
Part 2: Hiding the fact that HVAC was only decided upon _after_ Part 1 aired.
All kidding aside, glad to see you're able to do this for yourself.
Yeah he's going to need another 240 circuit for that.. installation is not hard on existing building though for a ductless.
I had wondered about that also. I didn't see any provision. That part of Texas gets brutally hot summers and brisk temperature drops in winter.
@@Geardos1 For a studio, all the HVAC noise must be kept outside the sound padded room, with any cooled air or coolant entering in a way that neither conducts pump noise nor sounds like wind brushing through cloth or liquid howling through pipes.
@@Geardos1 So what if he needs another circuit? It looks like the feeder from the house is 60 amps, and air conditioning for something that size will surely require no more than a 20a breaker. That leaves 40a (9.6 kVa) left for everything else, which is way more than enough.
It blows my mind how many people actually think he wasn't going to put HVAC in this and actually commented about it. The fact you think this guy in TEXAS only considered HVAC halfway through the project is very funny.
When he said Morgan freeman I laughed
Me too..
@@Keovar Oh FFS - I hope you're joking and it just went over my head... He looks enough like Morgan Freeman for it to be funny. End of story.
Why do you have to take something humerous and make it a racist thing? Do you have some kind of a problem with black people?
@@Keovar triggered. Your the reason we can't have free speech. If he looked like Mike tyson would you be here trolling too? Don't get butt hurt cis I'm sure nobody else is so deep thinking as you or we'll brainwashed by the media.
Same here XD
@Tangobaldy ffs they just expressed a concern and did it in a nice and calm way, do you really have to attack them? they didn't even state a fact or anything, they just expressed a concern. irrational? maybe, but clearly not an aggressive one
Fascinating. Hank Hill would be proud.
Stuff like this makes me ask what the hell I'm doing with my life
Thanks for making videos like this one, I love watching people plan and construct buildings and other installations!
I wonder How's the reaction of contractor when he realize that he worked for famous retro tech youtuber , they even send him Morgan Freeman!!
9:55 Square D has an older series of panels only having 20 spaces and code where I am dictates you need to have 2 spares minimum. Upgrading to a 200 amp service or a subpanel connected to 2 positions is the usual way to get around that.
I agree. His house panel looks like 150 amp main which is typical for the age of his house. Upgrade to a 200 amp and run his studio off a sub with a seperate SSD. Im from Fl so the codes are different but you would need to install a new meter combo on the out side first and then feed his existing panel and new sub from there.
That would be a very costly upgrade. He'd probably need a new drop from the power utility, possibly a new meter, and the new panel and complete rewiring of all the breakers. Not a trivial upgrade.
@@aaron74 He might only need a new panel if the conductors are deemed adequate. I don't see that companies would change the service feed based on that. They would base it on how much power they might need in the future and have conductors capable of it.
additional:
My house had a subpanel with an arc welder outlet for 40 amps added back in 1995 for the previous owner, and the work order stapled to the wall shows they replaced the panel and added a subpanel but left the service and meter the same and added a subfeed for the old house panel inside the house. The meter was changed to a smart one a few years back.
Looking forward to part 2!
Beautiful work, go for the classic look, the bench is SOO classic and retro..