Mounting / Positioning in Leased Home

[WheredItGo]

We have a 16' L 14' W x 12' H room to use for our sim. Our landlord isn't comfortable with us putting holes in the ceiling to mount a short throw projector, so I'm trying to find alternatives (below) or see if anyone here might have some other ideas. Screen size will be 13' x 7.4' (16:9) about 6 in. Depending on the solution I find will kind of dictate what kind of projector we'll be using.

Possible Solutions

1) Place projector on shelf on opposite wall - I'm not sure if having the projector on a shelf on the opposite wall would cast shadows (I'm 5'5). Distance to screen would be approx. 15 feet.

2) Sit projector on floor or tripod - This seems like it would increase damage risk with errant shots. Thus, projector would need to be at minimum on the side of me and either a) centered with screen and me hitting off-center or b) the projector be off-center and use horizontal keystone to position display and possibly lose some image quality.

3) That's it, honestly. That's all I got for non-mounting solutions. So if anyone has any other advice or feedback, I'm all ears!

[Golfnado]

Also interested to hear responses on this. I have 10 ft ceiling that quickly increase upwards linearly to 30 ft so I cant mount my projector to anything. Screen will be 10x10. Area is only 10.5 ft wide x 16 ft deep. Only solution I know of is something like this https://m.ebay.com/itm/Projector-Cas...8-6ac4eee24ef8

[gojoholo]

When you say your area is only 10.5 ft wide do you mean that you have walls down both sides? If so you could run 2 bars or angle irons across the width of the space, 10 feet off the floor. You attach a wooden board or plywood to the bars, then the projector can be attached to the board using a standard projector mount. Not sure where you are, but in the UK the bits available here would do the trick: https://keesystems.com/store/fittings/kee-klamp.html

[WheredItGo]

My space is 14 feet wide. Would bars still work at that length or not hold support enough in the center? Projector is listed at 6 lbs.

[gojoholo]

I'm no engineer but I should think 2 14ft steel tubes of this type should be able to hold up a 6lb projector. Note these are not the EMT tubes that are often mentioned in this forum. If you can't get hold of them in your location then angle irons would be the alternative.