Pole Banners

For maximum stability, we recommend installing your pole banner on a curved surface. However, customers have successfully installed pole banners onto square poles and other flat surfaces.

Since our banners are UV safe, they are resistant to fading under direct sunlight. However, over an extended period in UV light, they will show signs of wear and tear. Thanks to our digital printing method, however, your graphics will not wear off.

We don’t offer our pole banners with wind slits. While there may be some benefit of doing so, the wind slits also make your banner less architecturally sound, more prone to ripping and tearing, and create less visibility on your graphics.

Absolutely! Pole banners and their hardware are reusable. When not on display, be sure to clean them off, and store them rolled up, inside a hard container, or anywhere where no objects rest on top of them. We recommend storing them in a dry environment and away from items that may scratch or damage the banner material. Pole banners are usually intended for short-term or one-time use. In case you want to use them again, review your design for specific dates or times that may prevent you from displaying them again.

Since these banners are exposed to the elements more than some of our other products, they typically have a shorter lifespan. But with proper installation and care, you should be able to use them for two or more years.

Follow the steps below for proper installation of your pole banner to the hardware:

1. Enlist the help of another individual to install the hardware. Start with measuring the length of your banner and placing the mounting brackets against the post or pole. There should be a proper distance between the brackets based on your banner’s length.
2. Fasten the mounts to the pole with the four steel bands. You’ll use two steel bands per mounting bracket.
3. Once the brackets are fixed to the pole, you can insert each of the fiberglass arms in, one per bracket. To secure the fiberglass arms to the mounts, you will use the threaded screws, one per bracket. The pin with key ring will be inserted into the other hole on the mounting bracket and is used to attach a zip tie from the keyring to the grommet on your banner.
4. After installing the hardware, you may start to slide the pole banner onto each of the extended fiberglass arms, sliding both the top and bottom portions of the banner onto the arms at the same time until the arms are completely covered by the graphic.
5. To secure your banner to the hardware, fasten with zip-ties (optional) through each of the grommets on the graphic’s side of the hardware and loop the zip-ties through the pin’s keyring. Fastening the graphic to the hardware will improve the banner’s resistance to wind and keep it in place during windy conditions.

You can display two banners on the same pole or post. In order to achieve this look, you’ll need to order two pole banners and two sets of hardware. If you want the same graphic for each, you can simply add hardware as an option and change your quantity of banners to two before checkout.

You’ll install both sets of hardware but use a single steel band for mounting the top and bottom sets of mounts. Doing so will leave you with four extra bands once the installation is complete. This is only possible with 2” pole pocket banners as the 3” and 4” pole pocket banners are not sold with the optional hardware kit.

To remove your pole banner from hardware, reverse the steps of installation:

1. Begin by removing any zip or cable ties, loosening the threaded screw, and sliding the banner off each of the fiberglass arms.
2. To store the graphic, you should start by thoroughly cleaning it with a damp cloth. You may use a mixture of warm water and dish soap to create a cleaning solution for the cloth.
3. After cleaning the banner and allowing it to air dry or wiping it with a non-abrasive cloth, roll the banner up and place it in a dry, cool place away from any direct sunlight or weather exposure.

Wrinkles may occur during shipment and storage. To remove any wrinkles, unroll the banner and place it flat on a table outdoors on a warm sunny day. A few hours under the sun should ease any light wrinkles out of the material. Installing them and having them sit in the sun should do the same.