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I have been toying with the idea of doing a better, easier, lighter screen for my outdoor setup.
Right now, I use a very large artists canvas. Two steel 10 foot steel poles are disposed in eyelets drilled into my backyard fence and the canvas hangs between the two poles. I can turn each pole to wrap the material around the pole and tighten up the screen. I also have eyelets on the top of each pole attached to rope that can be pulled down at 45 degree angles (to pull each pole outwardly), and the screen has a rope through a pocket sewn into top of the screen that also falls to either side of the poles at 45 degree angles to keep the center of the screen from sagging.
My thought: Buy 4 4x8 sheets of dense insulation paneling from Home Depot, paint it with white (grey?) paint and somehow dispose it on the fence. The screen, with each sheet set side-by-side, would be 16x8, which I could then paint to roughly 15 x 6.5 feet for a scope screen.
Questions:
1. How do I get each panel attached to my fence so that is is easy to put up and easy to take down? Some kind of track where I can just place panel into the track? Perhaps I can just set up some brackets on the fence in strategic locations to hold the panels. I have a wood fence, about 4-5 feet tall with spaced vertical slats, and posts every 8 feet. So if I start the screen on the fence about 3 feet off the ground, only about 2 feet of the screen will actually contact the fence, the rest will be above the fence. Will I need some kind of top restraining bar or perhaps a clip between panels to keep it all together?
2. How do I make it seamless? White tape that can be painted?
For inspiration, I am looking at this outdoor theater:
Any thoughts?
Right now, I use a very large artists canvas. Two steel 10 foot steel poles are disposed in eyelets drilled into my backyard fence and the canvas hangs between the two poles. I can turn each pole to wrap the material around the pole and tighten up the screen. I also have eyelets on the top of each pole attached to rope that can be pulled down at 45 degree angles (to pull each pole outwardly), and the screen has a rope through a pocket sewn into top of the screen that also falls to either side of the poles at 45 degree angles to keep the center of the screen from sagging.
My thought: Buy 4 4x8 sheets of dense insulation paneling from Home Depot, paint it with white (grey?) paint and somehow dispose it on the fence. The screen, with each sheet set side-by-side, would be 16x8, which I could then paint to roughly 15 x 6.5 feet for a scope screen.
Questions:
1. How do I get each panel attached to my fence so that is is easy to put up and easy to take down? Some kind of track where I can just place panel into the track? Perhaps I can just set up some brackets on the fence in strategic locations to hold the panels. I have a wood fence, about 4-5 feet tall with spaced vertical slats, and posts every 8 feet. So if I start the screen on the fence about 3 feet off the ground, only about 2 feet of the screen will actually contact the fence, the rest will be above the fence. Will I need some kind of top restraining bar or perhaps a clip between panels to keep it all together?
2. How do I make it seamless? White tape that can be painted?
For inspiration, I am looking at this outdoor theater:

Any thoughts?