Perimeter Site Hoarding (Mesh)

Perimeter Site Hoarding (Mesh) — A perforated cloth that lets wind pass straight through — the honest answer to an exposed site, specified for hoarding banners.

Mesh solves a structural problem rather than a graphic one. A solid banner on an exposed fence or scaffold acts as a sail: the wind has nowhere to go and the load transfers into your fixings and the structure behind them. Perforating the cloth lets air through and drops that load dramatically. The perforations give the cloth an open, textured character, and mesh is designed to be read at distance — where that openness disappears and the image reads as solid colour.

Site hoarding is a long-term outdoor graphic in a hostile environment: dust, plant traffic, weather, and the occasional impact. It also has a job to do commercially, usually announcing what is coming and who is building it.

Best for

• Construction-site hoarding
• Retail refit and coming-soon hoarding
• Development marketing panels
• Perimeter site screening
• Safety and wayfinding messaging

Key advantages

• Open perforations shed wind load, which is why scaffold and fence contractors specify it
• Reduces stress on fixings, fence panels and scaffold structure
• Allows daylight and airflow through to whatever is behind the panel
• Reads strongly at viewing distance despite the open structure
• Lighter to handle and rig than a solid banner of the same span

Specifications

Choosing the right specification

Work out the campaign length honestly and buy for it. A lightweight banner is genuinely cheaper for a three-month refit; on an eighteen-month development it will need replacing twice and you will pay for the access each time. For anything beyond a season, a coated Oxford or tarpaulin is the lower total cost.

How ordering works

• Send your artwork — Upload print-ready artwork at any stage — we check scale, resolution and bleed before anything goes to press and come back to you if something needs adjusting.
• Made to your size — Every panel is cut and finished to your dimensions. Tell us the finished size you need and how it is being fixed, and we will allow for hems and fixings correctly.
• Printed by dye-sublimation — Colour is transferred into the polyester fibre under heat, so the image becomes part of the cloth rather than a layer sitting on top of it.
• Finished and shipped — Hems, eyelets, pole pockets, silicone edge and other finishing are applied before your order is folded, boxed and dispatched worldwide.

Related specifications

Other formats and sizes in this fabric are made to order — send us the finished dimensions and fixing method and we will quote them.

Technical detail

What the perforation actually buys you. A mesh banner is roughly 70% printable surface and 30% open hole. Published installation guidance puts the resulting wind-load reduction at 30-37% compared with a solid banner of the same span, which is why fence and scaffold contractors specify mesh rather than a closed cloth. Standard practice is to fix at grommets spaced about 24 inches around the whole perimeter, with extra ties at the top, bottom and centre on large panels or exposed positions. Scaffold-height installations see higher wind speeds than ground-level fence runs, so fixing spacing matters more the higher the panel goes.

Best suited to

Exposed spans where wind load governs the install — scaffold wraps, fence lines, sports perimeters and large building faces.

Also in this range

For sheltered positions and close-viewing detail, our solid Oxford and tarpaulin ranges give a fully closed print face.

Not sure which fabric is right? Order a free swatch pack and see the weight, texture and finish in your own hands before you commit to a full run.