02 / 15 Fixing and cladding
Cladding works.
Aluminium composite and aluminium sheet panels fixed to a subframe, for facades, shopfronts, fascias and signage bands.
01What it is
Cladding works, explained.
Cladding is a new skin fixed over the face of a building. An aluminium subframe is fixed to the wall, and the panels are cut, folded into trays and fixed to it, leaving a flat face with even joints.
Most cladding is aluminium composite panel (ACP): two thin skins of aluminium bonded to a core, usually 4 mm thick in all. Solid aluminium sheet is heavier and costs more, and it does not burn.
Where it suits
- Shop and showroom fronts
- Fascias and signage bands
- Covering old, stained or uneven facades
- Columns, soffits and canopy edges
02Choices you will make
What goes on the drawing.
Each of these is decided before anything is cut. If you are not sure, say so in the quote list and it will be talked through.
- Panel
- Core
- Face
- Joint
03For a price
What to send us.
- The area to clad, and its height from the ground
- What the wall is built of, for the subframe fixings
- Any signage, lighting or openings to be built in
- Photographs of the facade, straight on and from the side
The quote list
Pricing cladding? Send every size in one message.
List each opening, its width and height, how it should open, the glass and the finish. The quote list turns it into one tidy WhatsApp message, and it adds up the glass area as you go.