Measuring
How to measure
Two dimensions and how the screen fixes to the frame. Millimetres or feet and inches, whichever you work in. The finished screen size, not the frame opening.
The size of the screen, edge to edge. Not the size of the opening it hangs in.
If you’re replacing a screen, measure the old one. That’s the most reliable number you’ll get, and it’s already proven to fit your bay.
If you’re buying for a new enclosure, the screen you need depends on how you’re fixing it. A screen has to be pulled tight to work — with bungees, fixed poles, or cloth tabs — and each of those takes up a different amount of material between the screen’s edge and your frame. So the opening tells you where to start, not what to order.
Width
Measure edge to edge across the screen. If you're measuring an old screen, measure the cloth itself — not including any bungees or hooks holding it up.
Height
Measure top to bottom of the screen, the same way. On a screen that's been hanging a while, measure it under the tension it normally sits at rather than laid flat.
Fixings
Tell the configurator how the screen attaches to your frame. Eyelet positions are set to match, and they appear on the drawing you approve.
Screen first, image second
Cut the screen to fill the bay, then size the projected image inside it. Your projector's aspect ratio, 4:3 or 16:9, decides the image. In a dimmed room the unlit material around it stays dark and reads as a border, so a screen larger than the image is normal.
Over 3.2m on both sides needs a seam, which we quote rather than configure. Send us the two dimensions and we take it from there.