Here’s a photo of my 95% complete V3 build - which this thread talks about. I use the new Par2Pro “Stealth” setup.
Here is a photo of my V2 build that I’ve upgraded from…
And here’s a photo of how I started - my V1 build…
Let me start off by saying there was absolutely NOTHING wrong with my V2 setup. It worked perfectly for about 2 1/2 years. I still get messages every so often complimenting me on that setup, thanking me for writing about it, and asking for advice. Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to read my rant!!
Here is how and why I changed to the V3 setup…
The issue I had with V2 was about the space around me. I felt like I was having to change the swing of my driver due to things behind me. It was subconsciously eating at me knowing that I ‘may’ catch the shelves on my follow through. I’ve only ever done it a handful of times, but it made me change my indoor swing... which then effected my outdoor swing!
I’d been thinking about changing it for a while, and then I read that Par2Pro were collaborating with ‘The SportScreen’ to make a golf solution. I spoke to Cory about it, and he gave me a price for the SportScreen / SQHQ - modified to go with my existing HQ drapes.
It seemed reasonable ( a lot for shipping to UK! ), but it seemed a good solution. I could have potentially done it myself cheaper, however I’d rather pay a bit more and be sure it was going to all integrate together.
The theory was that I could fit the SportScreen in front of my garage door. It rolls up within 15 seconds, and only requires me to clip 2 bungees onto it, then close my drapes. Overall setup time - less than 2 minutes. This means I can go widescreen, and also have significantly more room to swing. My previous setup would take 15-20 mins to put away. It was pretty much permanent, with me retracting it 5 or 6 times a year when going on vacation. It protruded just a bit too much to get the cars in... and even then, I’d be scared a dirty bumper left a big mark on the screen!
The Stealth Screen seemed like a simple solution, but with a lot of work ahead of me. The downside - all of my current setup revolved around me hitting at the back wall. I’m now hitting at the front door, so everything needed to swap around.
My garage needs to be a garage 95% of the time as well as a part time golf sim room - so I have to work round my current storage requirements. The PC needed to be at the other end, my bikes moved from one side of the ceiling to the other, and I had to move some lighting. I had a TV on the wall for watching when playing - which also had to move, along with all aerial / electrical connections, as well as my network sockets.
Doesn’t sound like much - but a lot of hours went into re-shuffling everything!
Some additional shelving brackets were purchased and everything was carefully rearranged to make the best use of the available space.
Then I had to disassemble my existing setup. It was amazing how it took me weeks / months of planning and labour to put this all together, and it took a matter of hours to come down!! I did it with a lot of care to make sure nothing got damaged or touched the floor and got dirty. I managed to sell the extra bits on to another forum member to recoup some of my costs. (Screens / backing net / ceiling net and frame). A fraction of what I’d paid, but better someone getting the use of it than it gathering dust in my loft.
My 2 wooden beams for holding my frame and ceiling net came down, and were modified to be a single one for the SportScreen to go onto. This would ensure that it got screwed into something substantial rather than the drywall on the ceiling.
Once it had all been taken down and repositioned, I had to fill in LOADS of holes in the ceiling and repaint it as it was a total mess!
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