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Our Standard Design Specifications

On this page you will find our standard design specifications. These specifications not only document what you can expect to receive in a Seattle Custom Shoji screen, but this page might also help you in determining your screen design.

Standard Dimensions

No matter what screen size you order, stain or grid pattern, we will use the same basic production materials to achieve your design. Those standard production materials will consistently deliver the dimensions shown in the following figures and text . . .

Track Detail

For our uppper track, we use an aluminum track with four-wheeled carriages. Each track is 33mm (1.33 inches) wide, allowing multiple trackes to be stacked next to each other.

The carriages are captured in the track and cannot bind or jump out. They also permit slight height adjustments to the screens.

Quality Specifications

Your screens will be built to the following quality tolerances:

  • Height and Width Dimensions: +/- 1/4 of an inch
  • Screen Thickness: +.45mm, -0.0
  • Gaps in borders and gridwork can not exceed 1/16th of an inch.
  • Frame bonding is guaranteed for normal use, but is not guaranteed against dropping or torsional forces.
  • The shoji paper is a very durable material, however we can not quantify a tolerance and therefore can not list a guarantee for it
  • When purchasing a polyurethane coating on your screen, you are purchasing two light coats of coating on the frame, one coat on the gridwork.
  • Stain appearance is guaranteed by process only. We will apply a pre-coat of wood preparation and up to two coats of stain according to the stain directions. Here is a sample of two screens stained with Sedona Red. A customer can expect similar quality in their screens.