Wallscape Installation Help

[rob128]

Hi Folks,

We have a bit of an installation issue with a potential job we have been asked to quote.

The client wishes to do a 30'x15' banner on an exterior wall near a highway (no pedestrian or roadway traffic nearby) but, due to a number of restrictions, we can not install a proper frame or drill into the building and will need to hang the banner using some other method.

The banner could be up for as long as 1 year and the building is corrugated aluminum with 3 inch indentations every 2 feet (thus no adhesive vinyl) so will get considerable wind load in the channels.

I have been researching other technologies such as 3M's Dual Lock but have never used it for this type of application and am skeptical as to whether it would hold up over time.

Does anyone have any thoughts about how to accomplish this or should we say frame or no go?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Rob

 

[MikePro]

Bedazzle it! ....with Tapcon screws and washers

o, and welcome from Wisconsin to a great forum!

 

[rob128]

Thanks for the welcome Mike.

Unfortunately, we can not screw anything into the face of the building.

Rob

 

[J Hill Designs]

can you use the existing screws that hold the aluminum siding to the sub-wall?

 

[Morgan]

rails

You will have to connect to something. Rails from ground to roof, with a frame work across -
Nice job if they are willing to pay for it.

How long does this have to last?

 

[MikePro]

gonna have to stretch your canvas with cables then... you need mechanical fasteners with something that large.

 

[Marlene]

seems like we have been hearing a lot of requests for installs that don't screw into the building. about the only thing that sounds safe at that size is to try what jhillsdesigns suggested and use existing screw on the building to hold up a frame that you can attach the banner to. that is one big banner and it has to have more than some dual lock velcro to hold it up. I use that stuff for a lot of installs but never for anything like that.

 

[boxerbay]

LEAD PIPE.

Make a lead pipe frame, attach your banner to it, then hang the frame from the top with cables, and dont forget to use cables at the bottom to anchor into the ground with those corkscrew shed anchor thingamajiggers.

You might want to use mesh banner instead of solid banner to mitigate some of the wind issues.

 

[rob128]

Our first thought was, as you suggest, to replace the screws and use those but we still are unsure if that is an option.

One of our team had seen this photo (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...2780846682.134873.178677266682&type=1&theater) of a banner about the size of ours which is supposedly held up with the Dual Lock, but as I said, I'm skeptical.

Good idea on the mesh material, hadn't thought of that. do you have any recommendations for a product? we haven't worked with mesh banners before.

Thanks everyone for the ideas.
Rob