Scrim for hiding a Heras Fence

[matt_h]

Hello,

 

I've had a good search and mostly found suppliers of printed scrims. Does anybody know of a good supplier that could supply me with approx. 300m of single colour scrim to help hide a herace fence? Alternatively if anybody has any better search terms, or suggestions for hiding herace I'd be very interested in hearing them.

 

Thanks for your help in advance.

 

Matthew Hulme

[emj]

try

www.scaffoldingsupplies.co.uk

 

and look up scaffold netting

 

regards

Em

[Piers Shepperd]

Might also be worth calling Stage One who are just down the road from Wetherby in Tockwith.

[TomHoward]

try

www.scaffoldingsupplies.co.uk

 

and look up scaffold netting

 

regards

Em

Likewise - I have used scaffolding netting very successfully to hide Heras before, although our scaffolding suppliers are SGB. Sometimes it does need two layers to get a real opacity but it depends how solid you are aiming for.

 

Of course, you can also get solid Heras as well.

[matt_h]

Thanks everyone, scaffold netting was what I was looking for. We've had the fencing for a couple of years now, its just about to become visible to the public and needs smartening up a bit.

 

Regards

 

Matthew Hulme

[dwents]

try googling

 

wind permeable banners

 

we have only ever used this in the printed form but we had a company http://www.sunbaba.co.uk/ supply just black netting edged and eyeleted for one job so can easily be cable tied to fencing.

 

looked amazing and easy to fit / refit and lasted years.

[Tim B]

Hi

 

The scrim you have mentioned comes in many colours, but I was working at an event last week where the production company used hessian sacking, looked much better and is denser, but not so that it becomes a wind sock!

[dsharp7th]

this site is great for a choice of heras tarps/mesh amongst many other things:

 

http://www.allplaz.com/

 

it's a bewilderingly large range so here are a few direct links to suitable products, all of which I found useful around a festival site:

 

http://www.allplaz.com/acatalog/Flame_Reta...cy_Netting.html

 

http://www.allplaz.com/acatalog/Heras_Fencing_Tarps.html

 

http://www.allplaz.com/acatalog/scaffold_c...is_netting.html

 

remember the heras should be effectively braced against the wind if attaching anything like this. our local council was hit with a lawsuit and an hse prosecution when an unbraced solid heras type fence blew over onto someone.

[matt_h]

As we're due to finish this particular fence tomorrow I thought I would post back with what we did in the end. It might prove useful to somebody in the future.

 

The Heras fence was originally hired to provide temporary security to our "operational areas" which was later purchased as it proved more economical to do so. However last year we changed the way in which visitors to the site entered "The Christmas Adventure" at the last minute, which brought them in past this area. Needless to say its not the tidiest, or most pleasant of spectacles as these sorts of areas tend to be, as such we've been on a bit of a tidy up prior to opening again next month. To solve the problem of wind bracing we have driven 8 foot posts into the ground as you would for a conventional fence, drilled the heras and then nailed/screwed/bolted it as appropriate to these posts. This made a huge difference in its appearance, by straightening the fence line. Having completed that we went through what seemed like an endless collection of samples of both netting and natural fencing panels. With the end result being the use of a bamboo rolll, that provides just the right level of screening to wind permeability.

 

In conclusion thank's to all who've posted, there have been many helpful replies and suggestions!

 

 

 

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