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  • Printed banners and wind?

    Posted by R Ferguson on 19 June 2007 at 12:23

    Hello all,

    I have been approached about proving a banner (8 foot by 4 foot) for installation onto the front of a flat.

    The customer has been advised in the past (not my me) that due to the high amount of wind that special fasteners will need to be used.

    I usually use 550gsm banner from spandex and solvent print it. To finish off i use double sided tape and eyelets. Can anybody provide any guidance on this matter? i.e would i need to use stronger banner material or special fasteners?

    many thanks

    Robert Ferguson

    Fred McLean replied 18 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Fred McLean

    Member
    19 June 2007 at 12:43

    Would have thought the material would be up to it.
    As for fixings Rawl bolts with nyloc nuts?And tighten through the eyelets

  • Mark Elvidge

    Member
    19 June 2007 at 12:46

    if wind is definately going to be an issue then why not use something like a scaffolding banner or perforated if thats the right word type?

    i think hexis do a mesh banner that the wind would pass through.

  • Jason Xuereb

    Member
    19 June 2007 at 12:46

    Can you use sail track to fix it to the front of the flat? It wills top the wind getting behind the banner if you take the sail track right to all corners of the banner.

  • R Ferguson

    Member
    19 June 2007 at 13:10

    Cheers for the ideas

    Not sure that i can source sail track in Scotland. The mesh idea sounds interesting – will look into that.

    Nyloc nuts was what i was thinking, can they be removed to change the banner?

    Robert Ferguson

  • Fred McLean

    Member
    19 June 2007 at 13:43

    Yes but if you do it might be wise to replace,once there off/on a few times the nylon kind of loses its full hold on the threads 🙂

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