Scaffold Wrapping Materials - What Will You Need?
If you are considering gaining a competitive edge by offering shrink wrap sheeting to your customers, this 5 item check list explains what materials and equipment is involved...
John Homer, our printed debris netting specialist writes:
Printed debris netting is a fabric that has been specifically designed to be printed onto. It is a little heavier than standard debris netting and has a thicker...
What is typically used for shrink wrapping scaffolding:
Traditionally, most customers have requested white scaffold shrink wrap, it is cost effective, widely available and allows plenty of light through the wrap, so why is black shrink...
Shrink Wrap is becoming an increasingly popular product for modular building protection. Be it modular homes, modular bathroom pods or modular offices, shrink wrap is more and more being used to protect modules for transportation and...
Scaffolders often ask me to advise them how much materials they are going to need for a scaffold shrink wrapping job or how much labour to allow. This article shows how to calculate the costs...
A hot air gun is usually the essential piece of equipment for shrink wrapping, used for welding / joining individual sheets together and of course shrinking the sheeting ‘drum tight’. Although the designs of individual...
We are all familiar with seeing traditional scaffold sheeting, such as ‘Monarflex’, custom printed to display a contractor’s logo as the sheeting is wrapped around a scaffolding, lift by lift. In recent years, often in...
This week I was contacted by a scaffolding company looking for a shrink wrap scaffold sheeting that will reduce building work noise escaping from a construction site and disturbing people working nearby. Their customer is...
I’ve just spent a few days on The Shetland Islands shrink wrapping a scaffolding with two very experienced installers and it reminded me of the skill and hard work needed to get a scaffold shrink...