DIY projector screen with Goo screen paint!
My on going project to build my own home theater got a nice addition when I decided to upgrade my screen with Goo!
Screen Goo by Goo systems www.goosystems.com is special screen paint that is applied in a 2 step process, base coat, and top coat, that creates a beautiful home theater screen at a fraction of the cost of a store bought projector screen.
You start by completing a short form on goosystems website, that helps you determine how much and what type of Goo you should purchase. Goo comes in 3 flavors, CRT white, Digital Grey Lite, and Digital Grey. I chose the Digital Grey Lite, since my theater has a small amount of ambiant light. The Grey color is supposed to lessen the reflectivity of ambiant lite, making your screen look good in a room that isn’t perfectly dark. I also orderd my Goo in the Kit, which included rollers, paint tray and black boarder paint as well. I recommend purchasing the kit, it’s not that much more, and you know that the rollers are the correct nap thickness for their product.
I applied the product per the instructions, and the video that they have on their website. It was pretty straight forward, but you do have to follow them exactly. If you go over the same spot that you have applied your finish stoke on, it really does mess up the finish.
All in all I am very pleased and impressed with the final result. The colors are much more “real” than just the plain white painted wall I was using before. The only thing that really scared me, was the fact that you are supposed to overlap slightly each section when doing the final stoke on the top coat, this caused some darker vertical lines on the screen where the overlap was. After about 3 days, these lines are almost completely gone. It does take 3-6 weeks for the product to completely cure.
Here is some pics of my project.
Picture after my 2nd base coat was applied but not dry yet. The base coat is really thick like pancake batter, and light grey in color.
Final product:
The top coat was a really cool metalic grey, that dries to a dull grey.
Final pics coming soon.
