Hoarding graphics in Melbourne, printed and installed. A construction hoarding is the biggest, best-placed advertising surface a project will ever own. We print the vinyl, panels and mesh at our Ravenhall workshop and our own crews install it — branded, compliant and up on the builder’s program.
Hoarding is the temporary solid fence that closes a construction site off from the street, and hoarding signage is the printed layer over it: project branding, development imagery, leasing contacts, wayfinding and the compliance signage the site has to display. Left blank, a hoarding collects posters and graffiti. Printed, it sells the project for the entire build.
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.
There are really two customers for a hoarding. The developer wants the render, the brand and the leasing number in front of every person who walks past for eighteen months. The builder wants panels that go up fast, survive the weather, hide the mess and can be patched when a truck clips one. Good hoarding signage serves both, and the material choice is where that happens.
We print all of it in-house at Ravenhall — adhesive vinyl, rigid ACM and corflute panels, and banner mesh — and our own crews do the installation, working in with site inductions and traffic management. One team from artwork to install also means one phone call when the hoarding gets extended in stage two and the new panels have to colour-match the old ones. It is also why builders put the rest of their site signage through us at the same time.
The hoarding structure decides some of this — ply takes adhesive, temporary fence does not — and the project’s stage plan decides the rest.
Printed vinyl applied directly to smooth plywood hoarding. Seamless, photographic quality and the premium look for display suites and CBD frontages. Wants a sound, smooth face — rough or patched ply telegraphs through.
Printed aluminium composite panels screwed to the hoarding frame. The most durable option, dead flat, and individual panels swap out if damaged or when the message changes. The right call for long programs and reusable branding.
The budget panel option. Light, waterproof and quick to fix in place, best on shorter programs or where the hoarding will be reconfigured. Detail on our corflute signs page.
Perforated PVC that lets wind through, tied to scaffold, temporary fencing and above-hoarding structures where a solid skin would act like a sail. Covered fully on our mesh banners page.
Mixed answers are normal. A typical Melbourne development runs vinyl or ACM at street level where people walk past, mesh on the scaffold above, and corflute for the gate and directional signage that moves every few weeks. We quote it as one job.
Renders, lifestyle imagery, project name and the leasing or sales contact, repeated along the run so it lands no matter where someone crosses the street. The hoarding is often live for a year or more before the display suite opens — it is the campaign, not a placeholder for one.
Company branding across the hoarding plus the practical layer: gate numbers, delivery instructions, PPE and induction signage, and the compliance boards a Victorian site must display. We print the lot together so it goes up in one visit — the detail lives on our site signage page.
Shopfit hoardings inside centres: “opening soon” graphics that hide the fitout and start the marketing early. These are usually vinyl or foamboard on a timber hoarding, installed after hours to centre management rules. For brands rolling out multiple stores, this folds into our national rollout service.
Streetscape works, station upgrades and public projects where the hoarding carries community information, artwork and timelines rather than advertising. Panelised graphics suit these jobs because sections update as stages complete.
Hoardings on public land need a council permit, and several Melbourne councils publish guidelines covering how hoardings are presented, including the graphics. Advertising content can be treated differently from project identification. That is general information, not advice for your site — confirm with the relevant council, and if something in the artwork looks likely to cause trouble, we will say so at proof stage rather than after installation.
Printing is the fast part; access usually sets the timeline. Tell us the date the hoarding goes up and we will work the production and install schedule back from it.
Hoarding is the temporary solid fence — usually plywood or steel panel — that closes off a construction or refurbishment site from the public. Hoarding signage is the printed layer that goes over it: branding, project imagery, leasing information, wayfinding and the safety and compliance signage the site must display.
It turns a blank barrier that attracts posters and graffiti into the most visible advertising space the project will ever have.
Four main options. Adhesive vinyl applied directly to smooth ply gives a seamless, billboard-quality finish for feature hoardings. Printed ACM or corflute panels screw to the hoarding and suit staged projects because individual panels swap out cheaply.
Printed banner mesh ties to scaffold and temporary fence where wind load matters. Most city projects combine them: vinyl or rigid panels at street level, mesh above.
The hoarding itself needs a permit when it occupies public land such as a footpath, and councils have rules about how it is presented — the City of Melbourne, for example, publishes hoarding guidelines that cover graphics. What is allowed on the graphic layer varies by municipality and can differ for advertising versus project identification.
That is general information only; confirm with the council for your site before finalising artwork, and we can flag the obvious issues when we quote.
Comfortably the life of a typical construction program. Printed vinyl and rigid panels look sharp for one to three years outdoors, which outlasts most hoarding installations.
The practical planning question is usually staging rather than durability: if the builder will relocate or extend the hoarding mid-project, panelised graphics are easier to move and patch than one continuous vinyl skin.
Yes, and on hoarding that matters. Our own crews apply vinyl, fix panels and tie mesh, working in with site inductions, traffic management and after-hours windows where the footpath is busy.
Printed and installed by one team means one contact when a panel is damaged mid-project and a replacement needs to match.
Scale and restraint. The graphic is read by pedestrians a metre away and traffic fifty metres away at the same time, so it needs bold imagery that survives distance plus detail that rewards the footpath.
Panel joins land every 1200 or 2400 millimetres, so keep faces and logotypes off the joins. And put the project or leasing contact at eye height, repeated along the run, not once in a corner.
Still deciding? See our construction hoarding guide and sign materials guide.
Printed perforated PVC for temporary fencing and scaffold, where wind rules solid hoarding skins out.
See the detail →Builder’s boards, AS 1319 safety signage and everything else a Victorian construction site has to display.
See the detail →The aluminium composite panels used on premium hoardings, and on permanent signage once the build is done.
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 run length, the location and the date it goes up. We will come back with material options and a price inside two business hours.