Steel Wall Hoarding

Steel hoarding panels, posts and doors

In-ground hoarding panels

The in-ground hoarding panels make up the length of the run, each 2.1 m wide, with profiled steel cladding in a steel frame forming a solid face between posts, and they stand only once they are fixed to posts.

Intermediate in-ground posts

Every joint between two panels sits on an intermediate post, set 600 mm into the ground in concrete, which takes the panel ends on either side. These steel hoarding posts also close each free end of the line, so a straight run needs one more post than it has panels.

In-ground corner posts

Wherever the line turns through 90 degrees, one of the hoarding corner posts replaces the intermediate post. Its plate is formed to the angle, so the two runs meet as one closed face with no gap to see or reach through.

Pedestrian door panels

A steel hoarding pedestrian door fixes between two posts in place of a panel, in line with the hoarding, so the face stays continuous when the door is shut. Place it where operatives and visitors arrive on foot, away from the vehicle gate, to keep people out of the path of lorries and plant entering the site.

Steel hoarding gates

The heavy duty vehicle gates hang on their own in-ground posts, separate from the hoarding posts, in widths up to 6 m, so the choice between them comes down to the infill. Size the opening to the largest lorry or item of plant expected, with room to swing in from the road.

Solid steel vehicle gates

A solid steel vehicle gate is fully clad, so it carries the hoarding's solid line straight across the entrance. Choose it for public frontages and for sites where nothing inside should be visible from the street when the gate is closed.

Hybrid half mesh vehicle gates

The hybrid vehicle gate is clad on its lower half and meshed above. The cladding keeps the screening at ground level, and the mesh gives the driver of a lorry leaving site a view out to the footpath and the road before pulling out.

Mesh vehicle gates

A mesh vehicle gate is the choice where visibility through the entrance and a lower wind load on the leaves come first.

Hoarding wall construction: height, finish and layout

Measuring the run and pricing per metre

Walk the line and mark every corner, door and gate opening on the plan, then measure each straight run between them. The in-ground hoarding calculator prices the system per metre from those lengths.

2.0 m or 2.4 m hoarding

Panels, posts, doors and gates all come in the same two heights. The lower height suits most site perimeters, while the taller one screens taller plant and stored materials and puts more height between the footpath and the works. At either height, every post is longer than the hoarding it carries by the length set in the ground, so each hole is dug to take that length with concrete around it.

Galvanised, painted or powder coated

Carry one finish across posts, panels, doors and gates so the line reads as a single wall. Posts, panels and door panels all come powder coated in red, white, black, blue or green, and the panels can also be powder coated to a bespoke RAL for a contractor's or client's colours.

Ground and services along the post line

Check the drawings and the ESB Networks, Gas Networks Ireland and Uisce Éireann records, then scan the post line with a cable locator before any hole is dug, because a hoarding line along a road or footpath often crosses cables, water mains and gas pipes. Hand dig where a service runs close to a post position, and break out or core the post positions in advance where the line crosses rock or an old slab.