Three-Reasons for Installing Acrylic Barriers

In simple words, barriers may be defined as an obstacle that is installed to restrict the entry of unwanted persons inside the office premises, houses, apartments, schools, parks, and every place which is visited by the masses and used for commercial and residential purposes. However, today barriers are even placed on roads to control the traffic. Interestingly acrylic barriers are one such type of barrier that is installed inside the premises for protection reasons. They are one of the oldest barriers that are used in the office for protective reasons from the years.

If you have ever visited a bank or even in your school or college at the time of submitting your fee or submitting a book taken from the library you would have a type of transparent shield placed against the seat of a person collecting a fee or a book from you. This, however, at the first instance seems like a plastic shield that can be easily broken to move behind the table or take anything that is kept on the table. But, surprisingly it is robust plastic which is hard to break and helps in protecting that person sitting behind that shield and also the items that are kept on the table or inside the drawer of the table. Going through this reason these types of barriers are mainly installed inside the banks, hospitals, offices, and all the places where a huge crowd is present at the same time.

It would be interesting to know that nowadays going through the spread of global pandemic COVID-19 these barriers are playing an important role in maintaining the social distancing at different places including hotels, offices, restaurants, shops, etc. Well, now the question arises that what are the benefits of installing the acrylic barriers.

An answer to this question can be given in the following points.

1. Can be converted in any shape and design: It is a universal truth that the plastic starts melting on heating and can be converted in any shape according to the requirement and after drafting it in the required shape it can be drilled or given any shape after it turns cool. And therefore going to your preference you can get these barriers installed on the window, table, or any other place where you want to restrict the entry of people due to safety reasons
2. Transparent: As these barriers are developed from acrylic plastic, they are transparent by nature and remain in the same shape for the years, even if placed in the sunlight. One more interesting feature which makes them different from other types of plastics is that they do not fade nor break easily as they get older. On the contrary, they remain in the same shape and size without any change. Moreover, as it is easier to clean them they do not require any specific maintenance.
3. Light-weighted: One of the interesting benefits of installing acrylic barriers is that they light weighted than compared to the glass barriers. Moving ahead, the chances of their damage are also less than the barriers developed from the glass. Along with this they are weather-resistant and do not get spoil in extreme atmospheric conditions.

These are three main reasons due to which acrylic barriers are highly used for commercial reasons.

Originally published at https://f4r.org on August 25, 2020.