Woven wire can be beautiful, but it presents challenges when it comes to practical installation. Here, we’ll compare the two materials. However, if you are looking to substitute Woven Wire Mesh for Expanded Mesh, consider AMICO’s Luxos. This style of expanded mesh has a very narrow strand and is often visually mistaken for woven wire products.
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High Cost:
Woven Wire Mesh
Woven wire mesh is quite expensive and labor-intensive to produce, often costing up to 40% to 60% more than expanded mesh.
Expanded Mesh
Expanded mesh production is a fairly automated manufacturing process, leading to lower costs.
Requires high skill to install:
Woven Wire Mesh
Woven wire mesh must be adequately tensioned to ensure proper installation. Your installation team requires new tools and needs to know how to control, measure, and maintain tension. Additionally, the engineering team needs to understand how to design for that tension within the structure.
Expanded Mesh
Expanded mesh uses simple, everyday mechanical fasteners. Additionally, the large panels can be challenging to handle and require multiple crews to lift them properly into place.
Difficult to Repair:
Woven Wire Mesh
In the event of an unplanned problem, woven wire must replace entire large sheets, which will delay project completion.
Expanded Mesh
If an expanded mesh panel is damaged during handling or installation, it can be easily replaced. In fact, AMICO keeps extra expanded mesh panels in reserve for most projects in case of any unplanned scenarios.
Little Ability to Customize:
Woven Wire Mesh
Because the woven wire surface is not rigid, your ability to shape the material is limited.
Expanded Mesh
Expanded metal can be rolled, break-formed, cut, and welded to create a host of shapes and forms.
Poor Sunshading Control:
Woven Wire Mesh
Due to the limited width of available wire, controlling the opacity of woven wire mesh as a sunshade is challenging.
Expanded Mesh
Expanded metal features a wide range of expanded mesh styles, offering a diverse selection of opacity options. Additionally, an expanded mesh panel can have varying strand widths, thereby offering further fine-tuning of architectural shading.
