Photo fences: photo mesh for fences

Fences are an indispensable element of a personal, suburban or garden plot. Unfortunately, their appearance is not always pleasing. The owners are beginning to think about what and how to decorate the fence. A quick and reliable way to decorate any fence is a polymer mesh with an image applied to it. Most often it is some kind of photograph. Because of this, the material is called a photo grid for fences, and the fence is called a photo fence. The idea arose recently, but it is becoming more and more popular: to quickly and inexpensively decorate an unsightly fence or wall - who doesn't like that ...

An example of installing a photo grid on a chain-link fence

What is a photo grid for a fence

The technology has been known for a long time - it is used in the manufacture of banner advertisements or for printing photo wallpapers. But the use of such materials for decorating fences has recently begun. The photographic image is applied either to a banner fabric or to a reinforced PVC mesh. What's better to say is difficult: you can select for each situation.

In the case of mesh fences, it is better to use a photo mesh rather than a fabric. It is "perforated" - the cell size is 1 mm. Because of what it lets through both light and wind. For this reason, if it creates additional windage, it is insignificant. Even the pillars installed simply in the holes with rubble will normally transfer it, without concreting.

It looks like a photo grid for a fence

The second plus of photo grids for a fence is that it lets in light. And if your fence is on the border with your neighbor, he will have no reason to complain that your fence shades his plantings: it lets in enough light. At the same time, a very small cell significantly reduces the visibility of your site: just a grid without a pattern is visible by 35%, and with an applied pattern, almost nothing is visible. Even silhouettes are difficult to distinguish.

Banner fabric photo fences are good if you decide to decorate the back side fence made of corrugated board... A dull gray or shiny surface not only does not please the eye. It also harms nearby plantings: the metal heats up in the sun and burns out everything that is planted nearby. In this case, there is no need to let sunlight through. Banner fabric with a photo print pulled on such a fence will reflect or take on most of the sun's heat. As a result, the metal will heat up less, and the plants near the fence will grow well.

You can also decorate the back of the fence made of corrugated board with a photo grid

Temperature range of use - from -40 ° C to + 70 ° C. The declared service life is unlimited, the warranty period is from 5 years. Estimated price - 500 rubles / sq.m; 800 rubles per running line with a width of 160 cm. Most companies offer a gallery of images that they can transfer to a grid, some can print any image.

A rolled photo grid is rolled out with a continuous web

There are two forms of release: in a roll of a certain height (usually 160 and 180 cm) or in canvas - fragments of 160 * 250 cm or 160 * 300 cm.

How to mount

The mounting method recommended by manufacturers is to insert eyelets - metal rings into the mesh body. Through these rings, the photo grid for the fence is attached to the posts. Fasteners - plastic clamps, wire, rope, twine or something similar, if fastened to posts or metal guides.

Such rings are stacked

Eyelet rings are included, but you install them yourself: often you have to cut the canvas to the size of the run. Therefore, they need to be installed after the fact: after they have tried on and cut off the necessary piece.

For such an installation, eyelets are used.

You can buy rings and blocks separately - they cost a penny, you can find them in stores selling furniture accessories, you can also find them in construction or auto markets, as they are placed in car tents, on shading nets. How to install the grommet using the means at hand, see the video.

The fence photo net can also be attached to wood.To do this, it is not necessary to put eyelets, you can nail directly: use staples and a construction stapler (only take staples with a wide back and made of stainless steel, otherwise rusty streaks will go). The second option is nails with press washers and preferably plastic (transparent) or galvanized metal.

Photo grid on a fence made of profiled sheet with brick pillars

Before starting the installation, remove the protective film from the photo grid, which is glued on the back side and can be hung. The removed film, by the way, can be used as an ordinary polyethylene film: it is of good quality and rather high density.

Photo grid for a fence - some options in the photo

Choose the image to your taste

From the side it looks like a wooden one, entwined with ivy. It will be interesting to see in winter))

Stone wall and roses

A photo grid for a fence covers the transparent fence, making it almost opaque

You can also decorate wooden boards or professional sheet

You can also decorate from the inside

You can order the drawing yourself: at least horses, at least guard dogs)))

Definitely better than grill

Even a scene like this can be printed.