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Mounting a big banner
Hi everyone!
I have a couple of questions!
A customer asked me if we could mount a big banner on one of his walls.
He wants a mesh banner (I think that’s what it’s called in English), so I was thinking of doing like Rob shows in the video tutorial, folding a piece of banner inside on all 4 sides. Just so that it’s more rigid, I’m also going to place metal rings every 50 cm so that i can later on mount it on the wall using screws. But here comes my problem the banner is about 9000 x 1300(height) mm, I’ve never mounted such a big banner. And the biggest ones that I’ve have done tend to look like I’ve tensed them badly when mounting them. In other words, they don’t seem to have been pulled evenly when mounted.
So my questions are….
How do you tense such big banners using screw? Do you start from the middle and go outwards? Or do you start from one side and go forwards? Should I constantly pull, so that I stretch the banner as I’m applying the screw? Is there another way to go about it?
Could really use some insight on this one! -
11 Replies
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If the banner is permanent you would be better off using a flexface system.
Hexis now supply a track that is mounted to the wall and the banner is held and tensioned with a plastic strip hammered from the front. More expensive granted but the dogs danglies for quality.Look it up on the hexis website I am sure you will find it there, cant remember the name of the system sorry.
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Hi Simon
I’ve used the system Mike refers to and also a similar one to great effect.
I’d post pictures for you to see but I can’t! Help please Rob, someone, anyone……………
Cheers Nick
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If its going on a wall why does it have to be mesh?
Can’t you just sail track it? I do these all the time.
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Hi everyone!
Mike I will definitely look into that Hexis system!
Jason what do you mean by "sail track"? -
Simon,
thats a banner we did using sail track. Its basically an aluminum extrusion and you get kedar sewn into the edge of the banner. The banner then just slides into the sail track.
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I believe this is the one to which Nick & Mike refer
http://www.spirit-displays.co.uk/uk_about.html -
I’ve got a sample of that spirit flex in the factory I still haven’t used 😛
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Very similar Peter.
Heres one I done earlier…http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … highlight=
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How easy was it to use Mike? Any heads up on something when using that frames?
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Simon, it was a piece of pi…..cake
You really have to be DIY challenged to mess one up.
The only home work I had to do was to source expanding fixings as a screw would have just pulled out of the thin cladding. -
Thanks Mike!
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