High school learns about the benefits of Wall Shield after working with Digital Plus
The busiest area in a Leeds high school that more than 1,000 pupils and staff members pass through every day is now protected from a constant barrage of scuffs and scrapes thanks to Digital Plus’s innovative Wall Shield product.
The eight-metre-long corridor at Ralph Thoresby School in Holt Park is directly off the school’s main reception area and was constantly being redecorated and repaired due to the vast amount of passing footfall, as well as regular knocks from wayward school bags.
We immediately knew Wall Shield was the answer! We’ve designed the product to offer long-term surface protection and (as you might have guessed!) we can print bespoke graphics and branding on it to transform even the most mundane areas of buildings into visually striking and interesting throughfares.
As well as saving money on maintenance costs, Wall Shield is also seriously tough, fire rated, easy to clean and quick to install, which makes it a popular and obvious solution for high-traffic areas in all types of buildings.
We liaised closely with the school’s facilities management company, Mitie FM, before measuring up, carrying out a detailed risk assessment, agreeing access and installation timings and surveying pipe locations. We also had to create cut-outs on the Wall shield panels to accommodate wall sockets that could not be relocated.
Next, we agreed the visuals with the school’s headteacher, which our in-house design team created, fully utilising our 25 years’ worth of experience working with schools and colleges.
We completed the installation once school had finished for the day at 3.30pm. Because the product had already been accurately prepared and cut to size before it left our production facility, and due to it being very easy to work with, our team completed the transformation in less than two hours.
The result is a stunning corridor that’s now fun and colourful, as well as displaying the school’s house insignia to pupils, staff and visitors.
Robert Jones, from Ralph Thoresby School, said: “Almost everyone who comes in or out of the school uses this corridor and often you can walk up and down it several times a day. As a result, the walls were always getting knocked and scraped which meant redecorating them on a regular basis.
“Wall Shield is a great solution to the problem. It’s clearly very robust and durable and with the graphics printed on it, it looks superb. Digital Plus handled the whole process brilliantly, from the initial survey through to the installation and everything in between and we’re very happy with the finished result.”
If you’d like to find out more about the benefits of Wall Shield and how we can assist click here. for further information contact us now at sales@digitalplus.co.uk or call on 0113 2783133.
