Who fits a golf simulator: me, my builder, or your installation team?

In summary

Three of the last five buyers we spoke to on a call asked the same thing: "do you install?" Since 5 November 2026 the answer is yes, if you want it. There are three routes. Build it yourself, which most owners do. Have your own builder do the room and first fix from our brief, then set the kit up yourself. Or book our installation team, experienced simulator fitters who take the room from bare floor to your first swing. This page sets out what each route involves, what we do in each, and what must be ready before anyone arrives.

Route 1: build it yourself

This is the route most of our customers take, and for a SimSpace room package it is an afternoon. SimSpace designs its enclosures to be built by two adults without tools: push-connect poles, velour panels on velcro straps, and the screen fixed from one corner and tightened with bungee toggles. SimSpace's product page says 20 to 30 minutes for the frame with two people, and its FAQ says the whole process should take no longer than 45 minutes. Plan on 45 for a first build.

The rest is placing and connecting: the mat with the hitting spot 2.5m from the screen, the projector on its mount with one HDMI lead, then the launch monitor and software. How to set up a home simulator gives the order on the day with a time for each step, and there is a guide for each unit, from the Garmin Approach^® R50 to the Full Swing KIT. If you would rather not do the enclosure yourself, a handyman booked through Airtasker can follow the SimSpace sheet and video. That remains the cheapest pair of hands for the enclosure alone. Our sim experts answer questions by message at every step.

Route 2: your builder does the room, you do the kit

If the room is being built or refitted anyway, a garage conversion, a garden room, a new extension, the simulator only touches the builder's work at first fix: the leads, conduit and socket boxes that go in before the walls and ceiling are closed. Get those right and the kit drops in afterwards.

We give you a builder brief you can forward as it is. It covers four things: sockets where the projector, launch monitor and any PC will sit; an HDMI route from the picture source to the projector mount point on the ceiling, in 25mm conduit with a draw string so it can be swapped later; an Ethernet cable to the PC position if you will use a PC, and Wi-Fi tested where you will stand; and a screen wall with 30cm clear behind the screen and 8cm each side of the frame. The projector is ceiling mounted by default on the universal mount, so the fixing point and power at the mount are first-fix jobs too. First fix and the builder brief has the cable-by-cable table for each launch monitor, and cabling covers lengths and routes. For a garden room, the new circuit from the house is notifiable work, so use a registered electrician: see garden-room electrics.

On this route you, or your builder's team, still build the enclosure and connect the kit. If you would rather hand that over as well, that is route three.

Route 3: our installation team

We now offer professional installation through our simulator installation team: experienced fitters who build simulator rooms for a living, sub-contracted to us, with coverage across the UK. They take the room from floor to first swing:

• Underlay and turf across the floor, and the strike mat set in it.
• The impact screen tensioned on a frame.
• Padded walls either side, taken right to the wall, with a pelmet across the top between the padding.
• The projector on its mount, the launch monitor in the position its manual gives, and the PC if there is one.
• Commissioning with you before they leave: software connected, first shots hit, settings explained.

Most rooms take two to three days on site. The fit is priced per room on request, because every room is different, and it appears as its own line on your proposal so you can take it or leave it without changing the kit. Ask our sim experts for it when you send your room, or on the call.

What must be ready before they arrive

The fitters fit; they do not do building work or electrics. These four things need to be done before the booking, and they are the same four things the builder brief asks for:

1. Power in the right places, fitted and tested: at the projector mount, at the hitting position, at the PC position, and behind the ball for a radar unit.
2. The HDMI lead run with its ends at the projector mount point and at the picture source.
3. Internet in the room for a PC: an Ethernet cable to the PC position, or Wi-Fi that has been tested where the PC will sit.
4. A data cable to a ceiling-mounted unit if your launch monitor is one, as well as power at the ceiling.

Also check that the PC has the right output for the projector, HDMI or DisplayPort, and that every box has arrived and been checked against its box list. A missing lead or a projector that has not turned up costs a day on site, and that day is yours.

Which route for which room

Build it yourself if you are putting a SimSpace package into a finished garage or spare room: the enclosure is the work, and it is a tent frame, not joinery. Use your builder for first fix whenever the room is being built or replastered, whichever route you take for the kit. Book the installation team when you want a built-in look, padded walls and turf rather than a free-standing bay, when the room is finished and wired and you want it done in one visit, or when nobody in the house wants to spend a weekend on it.

Our steer: tell us which route you have in mind when you send your measurements for the free 3D design. The design is the same either way, but the builder brief and the installation line go on the proposal only when we know you want them.