kryten22uk
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Up to recently I had a 55" TV on a wall mount which meant you could simply slide it down to the floor, which meant I had a clear wall to watch movies from my PJ. However at Xmas, I upgraded to a 75" TV, which is now too big for the sliding mount. So I need a new way to watch the PJ. I bought a Screen International Giotto Tab Tensioned Acoustically Transparent motorised screen, which is 16:9 with a 300cm wide viewing area. This is a recessed unit, so I needed to embed it in the ceiling. Instead of recessing in the existing ceiling I've decided to create a new dropped pelment (right word?) which will house the screen. Rather than just have the dropped pelmet on one wall for the screen, I've decided to run it around all 4 edges of the ceiling. With a protruding lip all the way around, it will house some upwards facing LED strips.
First pic shows the wall (with TV covered) along which the screen will be installed.
Next, after removing the cornice, it exposed the cabling that I had diligently installed in the cornice only a couple years ago! These cables run vertically down the wall in trunking to the TV. This wont be changed.
Next pic shows the fitting of the brackets which will hold the screen. This took an exceptionally long time, as it has to be pretty much milimetre perfect, and of course a joist was never going to perfectly appear in the place I wanted it. So I buffered the joists with a piece of 4x2, and attached the brackets to that.
Before I could start installing the box frame for the pelmet I needed to know where the joists were. Joist finders were giving results all over the place as usual, and so I just cut a series of holes and marked out the joists. Good job I did, as they were not 450mm centres, they varied around 420mm-480mm, so my fixings could easily have totally missed the joists.
Next stage then to start with the boxing frame, using 2x2 timber, screwed'n'glued. This is how far I got so far.
First pic shows the wall (with TV covered) along which the screen will be installed.
Next, after removing the cornice, it exposed the cabling that I had diligently installed in the cornice only a couple years ago! These cables run vertically down the wall in trunking to the TV. This wont be changed.
Next pic shows the fitting of the brackets which will hold the screen. This took an exceptionally long time, as it has to be pretty much milimetre perfect, and of course a joist was never going to perfectly appear in the place I wanted it. So I buffered the joists with a piece of 4x2, and attached the brackets to that.
Before I could start installing the box frame for the pelmet I needed to know where the joists were. Joist finders were giving results all over the place as usual, and so I just cut a series of holes and marked out the joists. Good job I did, as they were not 450mm centres, they varied around 420mm-480mm, so my fixings could easily have totally missed the joists.