I decided to change my screen material today, as the screen has a couple of very small cuts and scrapes in it due to being touched/knocked at some point.
As I didn't post any pictures of the screen when I made it, I thought I would take some pictures this time!
Again I went for blackout cloth from Dunelm, I still think its by far the most cost effective way to make a screen, and cost me £20 for 3m worth. In fact, I have a commercial pulldown screen so I thought I would do a comparison to see how different the blackout cloth looks. See if you can tell which is which....!:
The screen frame was built using 18x69mm battens, in two layers with staggered joints to add rigidity:
The centre horizonal vertical batten is only single layer, at the back of the screen so that there is no chance if it being visible by touching the screen:
Here's the cloth laid out ready to go:
Frame placed centrally on the cloth, you can see here what I mean about the central vertical batten not 'touching cloth'.
Ready for stapling:
And now fully stretched and stapled around all sides:
And here's the finished screen, although you can't tell from the photographs it's much better than the old one!
Also re-painted the ceiling today to cover the filler where the old projectors used to be. It seems to be very difficult to get a black paint that is very flat matt, and very black. I ended up using some B&Q 'Colours' soft black matt. It's a bit greyer than the last paint I used but is very flat so there are very minimal reflections. I did test out some International matt black (which I've used on the door) but although its blacker it has a bit of a sheen to it which isn't great as you get reflections from the screen.
Ben