110" DIY Spandex AT Screen - Page 12

Do NOT buy this at Lowe's because I almost made the same mistake. HomeDepot.com has it for about half the price and shipping was free when I ordered.

Seriously, your comment cannot be further from the truth...

Lowes: $3.66 -

http://www.lowes.com/pd_21532-958-BASE18_0__?productId=3024709&Ntt=screen+tight+strip&pl=1&currentURL=%3FNtt%3Dscreen%2Btight%2Bstrip&facetInfo=

And they have free shipping on orders over $49 - but I like going to Home Improvement stores... so I bought mine locally.

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Home Depot: $3.77

http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/100065822?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=screen+tight&storeId=10051&N=5yc1v&R=100065822#.UV1uHhymh_w

They have free shipping too.

Pixel, for me Lowes shows price of 9.26 for 8 feet( including your link) where as Home Depot shows for 3.75 for the same.

Uhmmm.... no. I'm not wrong and I'm not a liar.

From your link.... $9.26

You're both right...

Lowes web site (like a lot of web sites) bases price on location. Change your home store and you'll get a different price.

For me, $3.66 in Mundelein, IL. I change the location to Loveland, CO and the price goes up to $9.26.

Please accept my apology,

I was going off of my local information and had no idea that Lowe's was price gouging people in the great state of Colorado. The real irony of all this is that I bought my screen tight at Home Depot, they are about 5 miles closer to my home than the nearest Lowe's. Figured the cost of time and gas offset the price per piece.

No blood. No foul.

I'm sure some legislator entrusted with making us all safe at all costs (to include our liberties) has decided that these are 'high capacity' screen 'clips' and has enacted a 100% tax. You know.... for the children.

Theater room at 80% complete

115"

For anyone with a similar frame as the original post, did you paint your frame behind the spandex? I watched my first movie (prometheus) yesterday on my new screen and there was one scene where the two vertical boards were very noticeable, seemingly because of the fact that they were a solid object rather than their actual colour. Just curious if painting will make enough of a difference to justify removing the spandex. Thanks.

No paint here, and no issues with the frame showing. Are you sure you didn't stretch your spandex too tight? Is it possibly the light is bouncing off the back wall and you are seeing shadows? Did you use 'stand off' molding, or is the spandex directly touching the wood frame?

I don't think it's too tight. I did it alone and there is still a lot of stretch to it when I press on an open area. It's definitely not a shadow as I can see the details in the wood. I'm not sure what you mean by 'stand off' molding, but yes the spandex is touching the wood frame - is there a way to avoid that?

Look at post 221 for an example (http://www.avsforum.com/t/1436181/110-diy-spandex-at-screen/210#post_22927743

The idea is to use edge molding of some type, so the spandex only touches a small piece at the edge.

What spandex did you use, and how many layers?

For two layer screen using screen tight system, is there any difficulty in getting both layers flat and evenly stretched without creases? I don't see how its possible to do one layer at a time so is it pretty straightforward getting both layers installed over the frame at the same time? Thanks to everyone for the great pics

I think I see what you're referring to. Neat idea (surprised that this is the first I've heard of it considering the amount of pre-reading I did), but how does the velvet wrapped border trim work with this? Seems to me that fastening the border trim to the 1x4 would defeat the purpose of the edge molding because it would push the spandex back in contact with the 1x4 frame.

I used two layers of spandex - grey over white and it was purchased from Fabricland in Canada. I'll see if I can come up with the exact name of the stuff... EDIT: HERE it is.
It was pretty straight forward and there were no creases and I don't think it's too much of a worry that both layers have the exact same amount of stretch. One layer at a time is simple - the first layer is fastened to the outter channel on the screen tight which leaves the inner channel exposed to attach the second layer.
Edited by brendelac - Yesterday at 12:17 pm

argh, somehow i overlooked the screen tight has dual channel one for each layer so now it makes more sense. I too am wondering how to best attach a velvet wrapped frame. Prior pictures nicely show a what looks like quarter round moulding holding the screen off the frame so I'm just wondering how to best attach an outer black frame. I'm thinking maybe something wider than quarter round might allow for a velvet frame to slightly overlap the screen material and avoid a gap?

You probably could attach both layers into a single screen tight channel. I considered trying it, but I figured I just do things by the book.

On a side note, I wonder why the screen tight does have 2 channels. I don't think I've ever seen a screen door or window with 2 layers of screen and why would it ever be necessary?

Ever see a screened in porch. There are multiple open sections that need to be screened in. Screen tight goes between two openings and one channel is for one side, the other channel is for the other side.

Still curious how the edge molding works with the border molding... anyone care to explain, please?

I used no molding, no paint, two layers of Moeskin and zero frame bleed-through.

Strange. The only thing that I can think of that would work for me (aside from the possibility of painting the the vertical frame boards which may or may not solve the problem) is to add a second layer of 1x4 around the perimeter of the frame and maybe shave it down to 3.25" which is the same size as the border molding.
$8.25 at Home Depot in Canada
Edited by brendelac - Today at 6:46 pm