So after getting the chairs into the room, I started to try and get the motorized recliners working.Found power supplies for $20 each. New batteries were a few bucks, although I never had heard of the size before. One of the motorized recliners didn't work. I spent a long time looking for replacement motors and parts, to find that these are a very outdated style. I did find that the motor is a common size, but would require new controls, and the wireless remotes are somewhat obsolete. I can find the same shape, but converting to wired would require some mods. But after more searching, I found an article stating that in power recliners, the issue is rarely the motor. A little surgery and I discovered there was a faulty limit switch. I purchased a new one but it wasn't close enough dimensionally to the original. As luck would have it, after enough messing with it, it started working again. Let's hope it stays that way.Here is a pic of my nasty water meter. In retrospect, I should have seriously considered asking the city to repair their side of it, because it looks like it definitely leaked at some point.By this time, I knew I was committed to doing something with the theater. I had gone back and forth about doing this "budget," as in bare minimum to make it functional. Since it would require me to do a lot of things I've never done before (drywall being the biggest) I was skeptical about doing it myself. But I took the plunge and started ripping off the wood paneling. As it happened, I found it was not only nailed down, but glued with a lot of glue. After the fact, I discovered that a heat gun or a blow dryer can help you to remove these while still leaving the walls salvageable. Since I still wasn't sure of my skills, I was getting a couple of quotes. One person saw the walls and discussed skinning them with some thin drywall. But the more we talked, he could do a lot more for me if I went in for the full monte. And it was WAAAAYYY cheaper than I expected. He's not perfect but I'm definitely not paying for perfection.Finally got to dust off my old Sanus Euro audio rack. Not in the best shape, but I'm glad I didn't get rid of it when I wasn't using it.Sorry for the sideways image.I forgot to mention this as one of my challenges, but there is an old sewer drain cleanout pipe sticking right into the room. Yeah, not ideal. We discussed cutting it off, but he explained that once that happens, if it is flooded with water from years of being out of use, it will run into the room with no hope of stopping it until it's empty. Later, when we decided to bump out the exterior wall to 2x4+furring vs 2x2, he was able to hide it completely.Next I started to pull down the ceiling. These were also nailed and glued. It was made of this thin fiberboard material that appeared to have a wallpaper covering. I was going to take one down to see what was up there and if they were salvageable. It was impossible to get one down without completely committing to taking down the whole ceiling. Whatever type of ceiling tile system they used was so interlocked that it wasn't going to budge without breaking something.