A3 Lockable Anodised Aluminium Black Poster Case with 45mm Frame Profile With Wall Fixings

Keep Control of a Notice With a Lockable Poster Case

Most businesses have a patch of wall by the front door doing nothing, while the opening hours, the price list or the safety notice that ought to live there is taped to the inside of the glass and curling at the corners. The SFLA3B gives that message a permanent home outside. A hinged door locks shut on a key, rubber gaskets run right round the inside of that door, and drainage carries off the water that a British winter throws at a wall, so an A3 sheet stays flat and readable rather than blotched and peeling. Across the front sits a clear PET screen, UV-stabilised and treated to cut glare, which takes the knocks that any display at pavement level collects. Satin black anodising finishes the aluminium in a hard, even surface that will not flake off a wall in the rain, and the whole unit arrives built with its fixings, so one person can mark, drill and hang the case in a morning. Best suited for salons, cafes and GP surgeries where a notice has to stay outside in all weathers and stay exactly as it was put up.

Why a Weatherproof Display Frame Works Outside All Year

• Key lock keeps the content yours: Turn the key and the door is shut to everyone but a keyholder. On an unlit high street overnight, or at a gate nobody is watching at the weekend, a notice cannot be swapped, papered over with a flyer or pulled out by a passer-by.
• Rubber gaskets and drainage together: Sealing alone is only half of it. Gaskets run the full way round the inside of the door to stop water getting in, and drainage moves off whatever does reach the frame, so nothing pools behind the screen and soaks into the paper.
• Clear PET screen, UV-stabilised and anti-glare: Bags, umbrellas and elbows come at a display by a doorway all day. High-impact PET takes that contact, and the anti-glare treatment scatters low sun and shop lighting so a passer-by can still read the sheet at a slant.
• Safety arm holds the door for you: Unlocking swings the door out and a metal arm catches it there, leaving both hands free. Clip the new sheet to the back panel, swing the door to and lock it. Nothing comes off the wall and no tool beyond the key is needed.
• Satin black anodising, not a sprayed-on coat: Anodising hardens the surface of the aluminium itself rather than sitting on top of it, so there is no painted layer to chip or peel away at an exposed corner. Low sheen reads sharp against red brick, render, stone and dark cladding.
• Fixings supplied, nothing to assemble: Screws and plugs come in the box and the case arrives built, so fitting is a matter of marking the wall, drilling and hanging. One person gets through a row of them in a morning without a workshop or a second pair of hands.

Where a Compact Poster Holder Suits a Narrow Frontage

When wind drives rain sideways at a shopfront, water does not simply land on the front of a wall-mounted case and run off the bottom. It is pushed at the joint between door and frame from every angle, and on a still, cold morning condensation forms on the inside of the screen instead. Two things answer that here. Rubber gaskets run the whole way round the inside face of the hinged door, closing the gap where the two halves meet, and drainage carries off anything that does find its way in rather than leaving it to sit in the bottom of the frame.

Changing a poster begins by turning the key, at which point the whole front swings out on its hinge and a metal safety arm catches the door and holds it open, which turns the job into a one-person one. Both hands are then free to line the A3 sheet against the back panel and press it under the internal edge clips, which grip the paper along its borders so it cannot slide down behind the screen over the following weeks. Swing the door to, turn the key, and the case has never left the wall. A shop can refresh a window offer before opening and a surgery can post a new clinic list on the way past, without a ladder, a screwdriver or a second person to steady anything.

PET is the clear plastic used for drinks bottles, and the sheet across the front of this case is a thicker, UV-stabilised grade of the same material. Stabilising it against ultraviolet matters outdoors because untreated clear plastics yellow and go cloudy after a year or two of direct sun. Thickness handles the other problem, which is the steady contact a display at pavement level takes from bags, umbrellas and elbows, and PET flexes under a knock rather than splitting. An anti-glare treatment on the surface then scatters low winter sun and shop lighting, so the sheet underneath stays readable to somebody approaching at an angle.

Anodising works differently from paint or powder coating. Rather than laying colour on top of the aluminium, the process converts the outer skin of the metal into a hard oxide layer that the colour sits inside, so there is no film that can lift, chip or peel away from an exposed corner after a few winters. Fixings come supplied and the case arrives fully built, which means fitting is marking the wall, drilling, plugging and hanging, with no assembly of the unit itself and no return visit to tighten anything up.

What Ships with This Poster Case

• 1 x A3 lockable outdoor poster case in satin black, with hinged door, safety arm and internal edge clips
• 1 x wall fixing pack with door key