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Thanks guys. We had another pretty heavy rain Sunday night and everything was fine. Of course, we were down there watching a movie, so I was right there if something DID happen.

Inch and three quarters of rain last night in a pretty short downfall. Dry as a bone. I was at a rehearsal and nervous as hell. LOGANESS says she heard the pump a couple of times and I could tell by the rut in the grass this morning that is actually ran. So, so far, so good.

Thanks for the bump RT!

I WAS going to update about the recent storm and power outage here, but since Big had a thread going I took the easy way and posted there.

One of these days I'll get around to uploading pics.

A few things I've done......
I bought a cheap electric screen and replaced the material with the original SMX AT material I had on hand and hung it. Got all four chairs in the room. Installed Insteon dimmers, built equipment shelves and cleaned up the corner of the bar area I need to work on next. I also bought the wood to make the screen wall, which I'm hoping to get to this weekend (since last weekend was a bust with no power). Been catching up on movie watching too!

Also, FINALLY finished up the kitchen lighting (from a year ago, give or take --- rewired for 6 LED recessed lights and added two pendants over the island) and painted the kitchen-family room-entry-way ceiling. installed two dimmers in the kitchen (I did that while the power was out anyway. LOGANESS thought I might get electrocuted, but I figured if the power came back on while I was working on it, it would be worth it), Also painted the kitchen and preparing to paint the family room.

It's not like I haven't been doing ANYTHING.

I did build the screen wall last weekend.

To do this weekend....

1) Finish painting the Family Room
2) Upload progress pics of theater
3) Watch movie

Everybody's a comedian. Didn't I see you get kicked off America's Got Talent last night?

Good guess.

LOTS of updated Pics!

OK I forget where I left off with pics so, I'll start here...

Three of four chairs in theater:


Bought a cheap electric screen....


...and mounted it.


AND HUNG PROJECTOR!


PROJECT 1

I did some surgery. I've had some of the original SMX material lying around. The plan is to replace the material that came with the screen with the AT SMX material.

Here is the original material.


First thing was to unmount the screen and unroll the material.


Then I cut the material off the roller and rolled it around the bottom weighted rod. What you see here is the back of the material rolled up and the empty top roller it WAS attached to.


The first problem is that the screen is designed to be mounted against the wall so that the screen drops down along the wall. I need to mount it to the soffit at the top of the proscenium. So I need to reverse the mounts. Not to mention that in order to get the roller out, I have to remove the mounts and pull the motor and other end with the roller pin. Did I mention that the Axiom M60s showed up and were installed?




Original SMX material in box.


Rolled out the SMX. TIP OF THE DAY....
DO NOT CUT OFF THE OLD SCREEN UNTIL YOU HAVE VERIFIED THE CONDITION OF THE NEW SCREEN MATERIAL.

The material had been in the box, stored upright for so long that a couple of creases developed. WE tried to iron them out but no luck.





I went ahead anyway. I measured for the diagonal cut. I forget exactly, but I think I used 15%. Using the material this way, I only have enough for one screen. Under the original fixed screen size I THOUGHT I wanted, I SHOULD have had enough for two. What are you gonna do?




Made the cuts and squared it off. Also bought a 10' length of black electrical conduit to use as a new weighted bottom rod.




Mounted the screen to he roller using some tape I ordered from the company that I WAS going to order all the parts from.


Slid it back into the case and used the same tape to create pocket for the bottom weight. I laid out the bottom rod, applied tape to the screen above the rod and folded it over to create a pocket.


Remounted the motor, roller pin and mounts and rehung.


And believe it or not, the slight gathered areas are completely unnoticeable when watching a movie. I'm not sure it's worth the cost of new screen to fix it. I reserve the right to do in the future if it turns out that it bothers me, but so far, it's GREAT.

Project 2
Insteon dimmers arrived.


What's inside the box? A LOT of expensive stuff.


Four of them installed.


Project 3

Built out the screen wall. Went pretty fast and I worked it in little bits as I had time and I kept forgetting to take pictures. Pretty straight forward process...ripped 2x4s in half, measured and build frame, painted them black, stapled remaining black GOM. Fiction fit in place.

It's hard to get good pics...it's really dark around the screen

Before


After







And Project 4 (that held up a lot of this)
Before


After


AND I installed the pendants and we just finished repaint the kitchen and family. MAYBE I'll get around to uploading pics of that someday!
Edited by tlogan6797 - 7/23/12 at 5:34am

Thanks! I realized that there are more pictures to take. Maybe I'll do that tonight, while I'm, you know, on roll.
Yes, I think if you are planning a fixed frame screen you can probably stretch them out, but I think you want to build a beefier frame to hold the tension. Ironing helped (steam setting, using a cloth in between the material and the iron), but not completely. I recommend using a scrap piece to get your iron set properly. There is almost a plastic feel to it and you don't want it to melt.

That's what I'm here for.

It's not really a vinyl material...it just seems to have a light coating. It could work, though. Provided you don't have any birds lying around.

Well. THAT explains why it felt all vinyl-ly.
But still, I know it's been running in the 100s here in VA, but that's STILL not hotter than the LOGANESS'S iron on the steam setting. I'm just sayin'. No harm in trying.

A couple of pics to finish up my big pic post....

Here's the kitchen painted and with the lights installed over the island.


I also roughed in a couple of shelves in the equipment closet. Just standard slide out MDF shelves at this point. We'll see what I need to do when I cover the opening.


And I got a stand for the center speaker. Puts it right about in line with the M60 tweeters.


By the way, that last pic had the retractable screen raised.

Mainly I'm still only 99.9% sure that I'm NOT putting the 65" Mits down there. Turns out it MIGHT fit, but I'm working on LOGANESS to put it in the family room for our main TV watching. And there IS the cool factor. I certainly COULD have made a fixed frame, and I might yet do that. I reserve the option. And finally, it was in the plan, it was something I was going to build from scratch just for fun, but it turned out cheaper this way. So I did it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!