You are in the process of setting up your own business and it is important to your business plan that people come and visit you. You have obtained a lease on space within a well located, well attended commercial building and are now looking into getting that space ready for your new business.
Your basic concept calls for a glass front separating your space from the aisle so that everyone walking past has an opportunity to notice you. Behind the glass entrance you will be positioning your main reception desk and a waiting area. The main working offices will behind a partition at the back of reception.
The appearance of the reception is particularly important since you want it to project a secure comfortable image that also inspires confidence in the efficiency of your new operation. The furnitures were quite easy to select but, you are having some problems over the side walls and the floor to ceiling partition behind the receptionist. Overall you would like a contrasting wood cladding effect with a large, framed map of the world behind the receptionist’s table and some pleasant land or seascape paintings on the side walls.
There are several reasons why you cannot simply bolt or nail the wood cladding panels to the bare concrete side walls and you do not want the new partition at the rear to be a solid wall. Your design guy has suggested hanging the panels and this reminds you that you also have the map and some paintings to hang. At this point, you start to have some concerns as you remember the problems that had hanging a couple of wall mirrors and some paintings at home.
Panel Clips
While browsing a selection of wooden panelling, you mentioned your hanging concerns to the salesperson who quickly assured you that, these days, hanging is simplicity itself. All you need to do is use a device that they call a Z-Clip. You had trouble fixing in your head how anything resembling the letter “Z” could be used as a clip to hang things from. When they showed you a sample Z-Clip, it was easy to see how it worked and to understand why it worked so well. As to the reason why it is called a Z-Clip, you are still not too sure.
The Z-Clip comes in two identical parts. One part to be attached to the fixed surface (like the wall) and the other part will be attached to the hanging object (be it picture frame, wall panel, even your company logo or sign, etc.). These parts do not really resemble any letter. The portion that gets fixed in place has a sort of “L” shaped protrusion at one end so that it makes a groove between itself and the (wall). By fixing the other Z-Clip part upside down in relation to the first part, the vertical parts of these “L” shapes can slide into each other. This locks the hanging object to the structure behind it and you have a successful hang up.
The Eagle Mouldings Z-Clip is an essential aid to hanging anything on something else so that the object hangs straight and parallel to the fixed surface. Eagle Mouldings Specialty Aluminum Trims & Extrusions carry a range of these clips to suit all purposes – check them out at our website.
