Monday, October 11, 2010

Installation 2010 – Episode 1

Have you ever wondered how giant-scale decorations are fixed in place?
In town and city centre schemes it’s quite easy to see the brackets on the lampposts and the wires and cables on the displays running across the street but the fixings aren’t quite so obvious in shopping centres. Next time you visit your local centre have a look upwards and see if you can spot anything.
Our prefix teams are out now ahead of our installation teams to do final site surveys. They put in place all the hooks and fastenings that the lights and decorations will hang from and make sure that all the power leads will be long enough to reach the sockets and so on and so forth. This forward planning can make all the difference between installation running to plan or it being problematic. All these fixings aren’t easy to spot the rest of the year but if you take a look once your centre’s all decorated; it’s interesting to be able to see where they all are.

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