Help! My Sonotube will not fit through the door.

[reedwesd]

Well this it my first real post. Great site. I have picked up a lot of great info from you guys. I decided to go the DIY route with my sub and figured I would go the sono route. We the only sono tube I could find locally was 12" at Lowes. Everything else (24") had to be special ordered and it was going to cost me $144 for the tube because you had to order a minimum of 12’. Well I lucked up on some 30” tube at a good price. I have had it for about two months and have decide that I was going to start on my project but after doing some research I found out that it is going to be tooooooo big to fit through the door of my media room . So I guess if anyone is interested I have a great deal on some 30” sonotube unless some one has a better Idea of what I can do with it. I guess now I am going to build a regular box.

 

[Seth=L]

At first glance, granted it's 2 a.m., I thought the thread title read "Help! My Soulmate will not fit through the door."

Sorry.

 

[reedwesd]

That’s great. Fortunately she has no problem but as for my DIY tube I can’t say the same. I guess I should have done a little more research.

 

[Josuah]

You need the thick sonotube anyway, so if you found that 30" stuff at Lowe's or Home Depot you didn't get the right stuff. Call up your local concrete suppliers--the companies the concrete builder companies buy from.

 

[reedwesd]

I didn't pick this up at lowes or HD. I picked this up at a concret mix place. They just happend to have it around and wanted to get rid of it so i thought it was a good deal but i guess it wasn't since I can't use it .

 

[jonnythan]

30" diameter is, uh..... huge.

 

[mike c]

you have a door that's less than 30"? if you remove the door itself, will the sonotube fit through the door jamb?

over here, our bathroom doors are a minimum of 27.5", out bedroom doors are 31.5" and our main doors are a minimum of 35.4"

 

[reedwesd]

It’s a 32” door but I think like you said Mike it is actually 31.5” wide. I figure by the time I add the MDF top and bottom caps with a little bit of over hang I don’t know if it will fit. The max over hang I can go is ¾” all the way around and I wanted to do at least a 1” just for looks and extra support on the caps. Do you guys have any other suggestions or want a good deal on some 30” sono tube ?

 

[mike c]

so there's no chance to finish the ends outside, but assemble everything inside?

how long is the sonotube?

 

[reedwesd]

I thought about putting it together in the room but my wife would kill me if I got liq nail on the floor. It is going to be around 36" long without the legs. Do you think I should just try to sell or throw away the sono tube and just build a regular box?

 

[mike c]

no window big enough?

 

[niget2002]

Take a cardboard box, flatten it, and put the thing together in the room on the cardboard box. Unless you let a kid help, you should be able to keep liquid nails off of the floor.

And remember... when it comes to women, It's easier to ask for forgiveness then permission!

 

[reedwesd]

Thanks for all the help. I have just started on a regular box. I got to thinking that if we sell the house I will have to leave the sub in the room or cut the tube up so I can get it out of the room .