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Solar and Battery – Screens

I ordered three balcony privacy screens to cover the frames I had built for my batteries from a seller on Amazon.

2 x 120 x 180cm screens and 1 x 80 x 120cm screen, I also made use of a discount code that the seller was offering which gained me £5.76 off the total pice because I was ordering 3 screens.

I placed the order on 16th April and they arrived on 2nd May which was a little ahead of the 7th-12th May delivery estimate.

I had decided to make use of M8 x 16mm button head set screws, a pair of penny washers, one inside the Unistrut and one outside the eyelet, and an M8 nut to secure each of the eyelets to the frame.

I started with the right screen and had to remove the top middle piece of Unistrut in order to be able to attach the washer and nut to the back of the set screwb ut otherwise all went smoothly.

I loosened the set screw holding the right side rear length of Unistrut so that I could wrap the screen around it.

With the right side screen fully attached, I did the same on the left.

Finally I attached the centre screen which fortunately had the same number of eyelets on its 120cm length so I was able to ‘double up’ with the attachment points.

I attached the two top corners first, then re-attached the middle pieces of Unistrut before attaching the remaining points.

This should allow me to access the panel in the middle with only needing to remove 3 or 4 set screws.

The eyelets did not all line up with holes on the Unistrut quite as well as I would have liked, so the screens do flap a little in the wind, although hopefully they will not make too much noise as to be a nuisance.

The finished screens

This should keep the worst of the sun’s heat off the batteries as well as the worst of the weather, whilst still allowing the air to circulate.