Application

Sunscreen fabric for facade shading

Large elevations are covered by several drops side by side, and the joins are what the eye sees. Width availability and colour consistency across batches decide whether the facade reads as one surface.

Dark and mid-grey swatches of the facade fabric

One facade, many drops

The seam is the design problem.

A facade is rarely one blind. It is a row of drops, and if the fabric is narrower than the bay, each drop needs a horizontal join. Those joins catch light differently from the weave and become visible as bands. Supplying the widest available roll in the same colour is the simplest way to avoid them, which is why we hold the full 3200 mm width across all 17 colours rather than only in a few.

Railroading

Rotating the fabric so the roll width runs horizontally avoids horizontal joins on wide bays.

Roll length

50 m at 1600 mm, 40 m at 2850 mm, 33 m at 3200 mm.

Colour

PVC is compounded in house, so colour is controlled batch by batch.

Read the material guide

Planning a facade

Decisions that cannot be changed later

These three are settled at specification stage. Changing any of them after the roll is cut means remaking the order.

01 / Bay width1

Measure the widest bay first

The widest bay sets the roll width for the whole elevation. If it exceeds 3200 mm the bay needs a join, and the join position should be drawn into the elevation before ordering.

1600 / 1900 / 2500 / 2850 / 3200 mm
Width and roll data
02 / Colour2

One code for the whole elevation

Two colours that look close on a card read differently across a large plane. Fix one code for the project and keep it on the purchase order.

17 colours at full width
Open the colour range
03 / Batch3

Order the elevation in one release

Splitting a facade across two production runs adds a batch boundary. Where the elevation is visible as one surface, order it as one release.

Compounded in house
Discuss scheduling

Questions

Sunscreen fabric for facade shading: common questions

What buyers ask before specifying this application.

Figures quoted are the measured properties of the fabric. System performance depends on the complete assembly.