Printed mesh and vinyl facade wraps, scaffold wraps and architectural-scale wall graphics — panelled and printed at Ravenhall, installed at height by our own crews.
A building wrap is printed material at architectural scale — perforated mesh or reinforced vinyl — covering a facade or the scaffold around it. Developers sell towers off them, brands run the biggest ad in the suburb on them, and builders use them to dress and screen works. Produced in panels, joined, tensioned, and read from half a kilometre away.
Made by Melbourne Trade Signs, a large-format print and signage company on Unit 6/43 Orbis Drive, Ravenhall VIC 3023, in Melbourne’s west. Printed in-house and installed Australia-wide. Phone 0415 743 691.
Nothing else in signage buys this much visibility per dollar. A scaffold that would otherwise be an eyesore becomes months of unmissable frontage, seen by every car and tram that passes — and the material cost is modest because mesh is priced like the banner product it is, not the billboard it performs as. The craft is in the engineering around it: panelling the artwork so joins disappear, keeping the message clear of ties and standpipes, and specifying material the wind will tolerate.
We print wraps in panels at Ravenhall on the same equipment as our mesh banners, and our own crews install at height, working in with scaffolders and site management. Street-level hoarding graphics usually ship in the same order, so the whole frontage reads as one campaign.
Printed mesh tied to the scaffold for the life of the works: development branding, project renders and “leasing now” messaging where the scaffold was going to stand anyway. The most common wrap we print.
Mesh or vinyl tensioned across a building face — blank side walls turned into brand statements, display suites dressed head to toe, and campaign takeovers at landmark scale.
The budget end of the family: printed mesh runs on temporary fencing and perimeter scaffold, continuous branding by the metre — detailed on our mesh banners page.
The render on the scaffold sells apartments for eighteen months before the display suite exists. Wrap, hoarding and leasing signage produced as one kit means the whole street frontage carries the campaign consistently.
Screening works, containing debris perception, and carrying the builder’s brand at the scale the project deserves. Repeat specs stay on file, so the next project’s wrap is a reorder with new artwork.
Landmark-scale campaign placements on walls and wrapped buildings — the out-of-home format nobody scrolls past. We produce to the campaign date and install with the access plan the building demands.
Timelines run on approvals and access more than printing — the earlier we see the elevations, the more honest the schedule.
A building wrap is large-format printed material — usually perforated mesh or reinforced vinyl — covering part or all of a building facade or the scaffold around it.
Developments use them to sell apartments off the render while the tower goes up, brands use them as the biggest advertising surface in the street, and builders use them to dress scaffold and screen works. They are produced in panels, joined and tensioned on site.
Wind decides. Perforated mesh lets a significant share of wind pass through, which is why it is the default on scaffold, shade structures and anything large and exposed.
Solid vinyl gives a brighter, denser print and suits smaller wall areas, hoardings and sheltered facades where wind load is manageable. On most big wraps the answer is mesh, and the print quality on modern mesh is far better than people expect.
Scaffold wraps tie or band to the scaffold itself, with the scaffolder confirming the structure is designed for the added wind load. Facade wraps fix to rails, eyelets and tensioning systems anchored to the building, and larger installations involve the building’s engineer confirming fixings.
That structural sign-off sits with the scaffolder or engineer; our job is producing panels engineered for the tensioning system and installing them straight, tight and safe.
Often, when the wrap carries advertising. Victoria’s planning rules treat large advertising signage — including major promotion signs above certain sizes — as requiring a permit, and councils take a specific interest in wraps on heritage streetscapes. A wrap that simply screens works with plain material sits differently from one selling a product.
That is general information, not advice for your site: confirm with the council early, because approval time usually exceeds production time.
Comfortably the one-to-three-year life of most construction programs and campaigns. Mesh and banner vinyls are engineered for outdoor exposure; what usually ends a wrap’s life is the project finishing, not the material failing.
For multi-stage projects we panel the artwork so sections can be replaced or updated without re-wrapping the building.
At scale, in panels, with the joins planned. Wraps are read from 50 to 500 metres, so resolution requirements are low but design discipline is high: bold imagery, huge type, and the key message positioned clear of scaffold ties, windows and panel joins.
Send the render or campaign artwork and the elevation drawings, and we engineer the panelling — including which panels carry the phone number that must not land behind a standpipe.
Still deciding? See our construction hoarding guide.
The street-level layer: printed vinyl, panels and mesh on the hoarding under the wrap.
See the detail →The same perforated PVC at fence and scaffold scale, hemmed and eyeletted to site sizes.
See the detail →Boards, safety signs and everything else a Victorian site displays, printed as one package.
See the detail →Browse the full list on our A–Z of everything we print, or see how this fits into signage in Melbourne.
Send the elevations and the artwork or render. We will engineer the panelling and price it inside two business hours.