Top 5 Uses For Mechanical Equipment Screening
In recent years, communities around the nation have added mechanical screen fencing equipment requirements to their civil codes. Hiding unsightly fixtures such as HVACs and dumpsters maintains an area’s visual appeal as well as its sanitation. What’s more, obscuring equipment from public view imbues your building with a more wholesome, professional appearance. This, in turn, helps attract customers and makes them feel at ease when they’re on-site. Even if your city doesn’t presently require screening, consider installing these professionally crafted barriers. But how do you find these products, and how do you know they’re from a company backing promises with the best possible quality?
For over twenty years, PalmSHIELD has led the architectural and mechanical screen fencing equipment industries by example. Our team of certified draftsmen, engineers, and fabricators work out of a massive facility encompassing more than 80,000 square feet. They’re trained to use state-of-the-art equipment to assemble screening that meets industry standards while matching the exact needs of the customer. (Everything we fabricated is custom.) In this article, we’ll cover the top 5 situations requiring mechanical screen fencing equipment.
1. Concealing Ground Level Equipment
Suffice it to say, equipment situated at ground level remains glaringly visible to pedestrians. Passersby can easily be turned off, and customers visiting your facility might reconsider giving you their business if they see unkempt property. Not to mention: failure to conceal these items exposes them to vandalism and other damages.
PalmSHIELD helps with these situations. Our designers and fabrication team will manufacture screens that fit the exact parameters of your work area. We also use powder coating techniques to color the screening, so that it matches and blends into the surrounding architecture.
2. Concealing Rooftop Equipment
Although not as plainly visible to pedestrians in most cases, it’s also worthwhile to install rooftop equipment screens. Here at PalmSHIELD, we offer louvered screens, which can be fabricated to allow adequate air movement while still preventing people at ground level from looking up and being able to see the items.
Consider this, as well. Rooftop mounted equipment on tall buildings are extremely vulnerable to wind damage. So it’s in your best interest, both aesthetically and financially, to protect your investment with professionally fabricated rooftop screen fencing. The screens help shoulder the wind, protecting your solar panels, HVACS, AC units, etc. In short: rooftop equipment screening can help spare you from significantly greatest costs involving equipment repair and replacement.
3. Outdoor Equipment Storage
In some situations, it’s more convenient to store equipment outdoors. Take, for example, pool equipment. Why go the trouble of lugging them out of your pool, through your pool fence, across the property, and into a shed (and repeating the process every day) when you use said equipment quite often? Why not store it outdoors, near the pool? Obviously it needs to be contained in a secure area inaccessible to children. This is another situation where PalmSHIELD’s custom-made screens come into play. We can manufacture solid screening to completely hide these items from view, and complete them with dependable gates.
4. Delineating Pathways
If you manage a park with walkways, sometimes it pays off to have screens help guide visitors. In these situations, obviously you don’t want slate-gray louvered screens. So why not our custom-made artistic screens, which can be manufactured to display logos, images, and patterns in various colors? Better still, how about screens equipped with LEDs? Ones that can display either a solid color or even cycle between various colors? Think also about how easily these can be used to attract visitors. All of these are available from PalmSHIELD. As are trellis screens: designed to hold and display vegetation.
5. Obscuring Dumpsters
While an integral part of any facility’s maintenance, dumpsters are a genuine eye sore and can wreck a neighborhood’s impression of sanitation and cleanliness. Not so, however, if you obscure them from public view. The dumpster enclosures manufactured by PalmSHIELD seal off these fixtures. Now they’re hidden from view and become inaccessible to vandals and animals. (Don’t forget that cats, raccoons, etc. often scrounge through the trash in search of a tasty morsel.) Wind’s another factor to deal with. If a sudden gust blows open the dumpster lids and scatters trash across your job site, or even spills it into your neighbor’s lot, you’re responsible for clean up!
With dumpster enclosures, you can do away with all these concerns. Like with our mechanical screen fencing equipment, they come with gates, still allowing employees access.