A loose projector and a screen that is already free of the wall are two objects. They leave when the projector is unplugged from a socket you can see, the case is still closed, and the screen is a pull-down, a freestanding frame, or a simple casing that already lifts clear. This page is that pair. It is not a television, and it is not a screen built into a wall.
A booking that says “the home cinema” will be read as a room of fittings. If the objects are one projector and one free screen, the note has to say so before anyone plans a carry, a cable sack, or a visit that includes a wall.
Two items, named separately
Write two lines: projector, and screen. Under the projector, say where it is sitting now, whether a plug is visible, and that you have not opened the case. Under the screen, say which kind it is, and that it is already free of the wall and the ceiling. Use one of these descriptions only when it matches what you can point at.
A projector on a table, a shelf, or the floor, with its own feet on that surface.
A projector that was on a ceiling bracket and is already off that bracket, sitting where you can walk around it. The bracket, if it is still in the ceiling, is not this line.
A pull-down screen whose casing is already off the wall, standing on the floor or leaning where it cannot fall.
A freestanding screen on its own legs or a tripod, with no screw into the building.
A simple casing that already lifts off hooks, with the hooks left where they are.
One line that says “projector and screen” without those facts is incomplete. Same visit is not same object. The person looking at the photos needs a closed projector and a free screen, not a dark end of a living room.
A television is not this page. A flat screen on a console, a wall-mounted set, and a projection television are the television’s job. Do not describe a television as a projector to put it on this note. The TV disposal guide is the set. This note does not add a route for where a television must go.
A screen that is fixed into a wall, a niche, a timber frame, or a run of joinery is not a free screen. A media unit under a set is not this screen either. The media-wall guide is that unit. If the fabric, the casing, or the frame is still part of the wall, stop. Write “screen still fixed”. Do not cut the fabric. Do not peel it. Do not prise a batten out of plaster. Ask a qualified person, or the person responsible for the property, before any fixing is released. This page will not tell you how to take a screen out of a wall.
A soundbar, a receiver, a set of speakers, and a stack of discs are other objects. If one of them is also leaving, give it its own line. This page does not become a cinema clear-out because the projector was in the same room.
Unplug what you can see, and leave the case closed
Find the plug for the projector. Unplug it from the wall socket you can see. Coil that power lead and tape it to the projector, or bag it and label the bag “projector power”. A power lead in a general tangle cannot be matched to the unit later.
If you cannot see a plug, and the lead disappears into the ceiling, a floor box, a skirting board, or a wall, stop. Write “no plug visible” on the projector. Do not cut the lead. Do not open a socket to release it. Do not stand on a chair to reach a ceiling outlet. A lead you cannot follow to a plug is a job for a qualified electrician, or for the person who installed the fitting. Say that in the note. Do not book a time as if the projector were already free.
Leave the case closed. Do not remove the lamp cover, the filter door if it needs a tool, or any screw around the body. Do not look into the lens to see whether a lamp is still fitted. Do not open the case to make the projector lighter. A closed box is the item. An opened box is a different and unsafe object, and this page will not tell you how to open it.
If the projector was warm, or the lamp housing is hot to the touch, let it stand unplugged before you move it into a cupboard for the night. You do not need a time in minutes from this page. You do need it off, unplugged, and not wrapped while it is still hot. If it is too hot to rest a hand near the vent, leave it and write “still hot”.
A smell of burning, a melted plug, or a lead with exposed wire is a stop. Photograph it from a safe distance, keep the item unplugged if the plug is one you can already reach, and say so in the note. Do not tape over damaged insulation and call the lead sorted.
If the projector is still hanging from the ceiling, it is not ready. Do not climb. Do not unscrew a ceiling plate. Do not release a mount while you are under it. Write “still on the ceiling” and ask a qualified person to bring it down. When it is already on the floor, this page can continue. Until then, the photos are of a fixed fitting, and a collection time is the wrong request.
A bracket that is already loose, lying with the projector, can be named as its own small piece of metal if it is leaving. A bracket that is still in the ceiling stays in the ceiling. Photograph it so the note shows the difference.
The screen that is already free
A pull-down screen is in scope only when the casing is already free. If the casing is still screwed to the wall or the ceiling, it is fixed. Write “casing still fixed” and do not unscrew it. A screw into plaster, timber, or concrete is not a piece of furniture hardware you release from this page.
A freestanding screen is in scope when it stands on its own legs or a tripod and you can walk around it. If a leg is bolted to the floor, stop. Write “leg still bolted”. Do not cut a bolt. Do not saw a leg to make the frame shorter.
A screen that lifts off two hooks is in scope when it already lifts off, and the hooks stay in the wall. Do not drill the hooks out. Do not fill the holes as part of this note. If the screen does not lift, it is not this simple case. Stop and name it as fixed.
Leave the fabric on the roller or in the frame. Do not cut the picture area out to make a smaller roll. Do not unroll the whole sheet across the floor to measure the picture. Measure the casing, the frame, or the closed tripod as it will be carried. Say which one you measured.
If the screen’s own legs fold by a hinge you can see, without a tool and without forcing a joint, fold them and measure again. If you cannot see how a joint works, leave the screen as it stands and write “not folded”. The furniture dismantling guide is the general decision about taking furniture apart. This screen is not that decision. Do not take a casing apart to change its length. If the rigid piece will not pass a door, say so. Do not saw it on the landing.
A black border, a tension bar, and a pull cord are part of the screen. If a cord is loose, coil it and tape it to the casing so it cannot catch a foot. If a bar is already detached, bag it and label the bag “with the screen”. If a bar is still fixed to the fabric, leave it.
Dust, a crease, and a mark on the fabric are condition. Photograph them. They do not need a story. They do not make the screen a different object.
Cables, a remote, and what stays on the wall
Picture leads, a short lead that ran from the projector to a player, and spare leads in a drawer are a list of their own. Unplug them at the plugs you can see. Coil each one. A knot is not a count.
Sort three ways, where you can point at them.
The first is leaving with the projector: the power lead you have already bagged, and the picture lead that ran to the projector if that lead is free at both ends.
The second is leaving but is not the projector: spare leads, a charger for a device you no longer have, an adaptor. Keep this coil in its own bag.
The third is staying: a lead that still runs to a television, a router, or a speaker you are keeping. Follow both ends before you pack. If one end is a device that stays, the lead stays. If one end disappears into the wall, the lead stays, and you write “one end in the wall”.
A remote, a lens cap, and a small ceiling-plate cover that is already off the ceiling can sit in a labelled bag if they are leaving. A remote is not inside the projector. Do not tape it over the lens.
Do not put these leads into a black sack with kitchen rubbish. If the projector happens to be standing in a pile of other items, lift the projector, the screen, and the labelled bags out of the pile before you photograph them. The pile can be named. It should not hide the two objects.
A ceiling plate, a wall plate, and raw plugs left in the plaster stay where they are. This page does not make good a wall. Say “plates left in place” so a later visit does not assume the ceiling was opened.
Measure, then photograph the route
Measure the projector at its widest, its deepest, and its tallest, including feet and any handle. Measure the screen the same way, as the rigid piece you will actually send: the closed casing, the frame, or the folded tripod. Then measure the door they have to pass.
Write both sets of numbers. A long screen casing fails a different part of a door from a boxy projector. Name a turn, a sill, and a stair. You do not have to know which lift the building will allow. If you have no instruction, write “no lift instruction yet”. If you have an instruction, copy it. Do not assume a service lift because the building is a tower. Do not invent a lift size.
The picture is a television on a console in a living room. It is not a projector, and it does not show a pull-down screen, a tripod, or a ceiling bracket. Use it only as a picture of a living room where a set and a console can be confused with this pair. Your own photos still have to show the projector and the screen as two objects.
Send five photos.
The first is the projector from the front, case closed, lens cap on or the lens simply visible, with nothing stacked on the body.
The second is the projector from the back or the side, so a socket still holding a lead can be seen, and so you can see that it is on a surface and not on the ceiling.
The third is the screen as it will be carried, casing or frame whole, with the sentence that it is already free of the wall.
The fourth is any bracket, hook, or plate that is staying, photographed in place, or a sentence that nothing is still fixed.
The fifth is the doorway and the next tight point, with the numbers in the message.
Add whether the power lead had a visible plug, whether the projector was hot, and whether the screen was folded. Add that a television is not included, and that a fixed wall screen is not included.
If either item is still fixed, send the photo of the fixing and do not ask for a collection time.
Take the photos with the room light on. A black corner behind a casing hides a second speaker or a lead that still runs into the wall.
Include them only when both are free
You can include them in the junk pickup when both items are named, the projector is unplugged from a plug you could see, and the screen is already free. This is one loose projector and one pull-down, freestanding, or simple removable screen. It is not a television collection, and it is not a media wall.
In the message, say:
- that the items are one projector and one screen, and which kind of screen
- that the projector case has not been opened
- where the power lead is, or “no plug visible”
- that the projector is off the ceiling, or “still on the ceiling”
- that the screen is already free, or “still fixed”
- any remote, bracket, spare lead, speaker, or television, and whether it is staying or is a separate line
- the measurements and the door
- any step or turn
- any lift note, or “no lift instruction yet”
Do not write “home cinema” as the only line. A lead you have not followed is not a cleared pair. A screen you have not tried to lift off, when you are claiming it is free, is not a cleared screen. If it does not lift, it is fixed.
If a larger pile is leaving on the same visit, keep this pair out of that pile in the photos. The pile can be named. It should not hide the projector.
If you have not looked at the back of the projector, you are early. Look first, from the floor, without moving a ceiling fitting. A collection booked from a front-on photo of a lens cannot see a lead still plugged in, or a mount still holding the body.
The television page remains the set. The media-wall page remains a unit fixed to the wall. The dismantling page remains the general decision about furniture. This page remains the loose projector and the free screen.
On the morning they leave
Leave both items where the photos showed them, if those photos showed them free and unplugged. Do not hang the projector back on the ceiling bracket overnight. Do not screw the screen casing back to the wall to “keep it safe” and then forget to say so. If you move either item, update the note and the measurements.
Point at what is staying: a television, a soundbar, a lead you traced to a router, a plate still in the ceiling. Point at the remote bag so it is not left on the shelf. Point at a hot projector if you wrote “still hot”, and leave it unwrapped.
Walk once to the door with the screen’s length in mind. A chair you moved and then put back is the new narrow point. A rug will catch a tripod foot. Lift the rug before anyone carries the screen.
If the casing will not pass, stop. Do not turn it on end if that means standing it on the fabric, and do not cut the casing on the landing. Bring it back into the room and update the note. The measurements you took are the record.
When they have gone, look at the ceiling and the wall. A bracket you were not releasing should still be there. A hook you were not drilling out should still be there. The socket you unplugged should have no bare wire. The floor should have the screen gone only if you said the screen was free and leaving.
The useful record is the sentence from the first check: one loose projector, case closed and unplugged where a plug was visible, and one screen that was already free of the wall, named apart from the television and from any fitting that stayed.
