When I first got the screen it was 162 inches long, but I trimmed it down to the size of my pergola which is 144 inches wide, and a little over 88” tall, which gives me a massive 165” diagonal viewing area for 16:9 widescreen content. On one side there’s a ball joint with a pin that springs in and out, and on the other side there’s a rigid mount with two pins to hold it in place.
A giant weatherproof tubular motor made by simu drives a thick aluminum roller. The original screen was made up of 3 parts. Related to that, there’s a reason that I didn’t title this video “I built a 165 inch projector screen for $350”, because I started with a salvaged motor, screen and roller that probably cost around $4000 new, but if you want to learn a little bit about projectors, projector screens and flex seal, and see how this projector screen performs, stick around for the rest of the video.
The mounting hardware was all rusted and the screens had multiple rips and tears that would prevent them from keeping out bugs, but the motors were working and the screens were actually bigger than my pergola, so I could trim it down and make one giant screen for the whole pergola instead of multiple small screens. Originally these giant screens were designed to be able to enclose a patio space at the touch of a button, but this one had seen better days.
He showed me a roller screen that he had salvaged from a demolition job they had just completed. In the end I scrapped the idea because the screen wasn’t going to be big enough, and other than the pool there wouldn’t have been a good place to watch it, but having a projector screen on the patio has been in the back of my mind ever since.įast forward a year, and our patio remodel has been awesome, and there’s not a single thing I would change, but because we shifted our seating area from under the lanai to under the pergola the shades that I built 4 years ago to protect us from the afternoon sun are in the wrong place.Īnd after living with that issue for a year and procrastinating a new shade project, I was visiting my brother-in-law who works as a project manager for a construction company that builds multimillion dollar homes. Today on the hookup I’m going to show you how I made this 165” projector screen using about 3 gallons of flex seal, and why you probably shouldn’t do it, at least not the way I did.Ī little backstory here: Last year I remodeled my patio, and one of the things that I seriously considered was turning this section of my screened enclosure into a projector screen.
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