Green wall Handover Manual.2 · OPW16/0021

Project Handover & Maintenance Manual – Fytogreen Australia Pty Ltd




2. CARE & MAINTENANCE INFORMATION

(a) Introduction

You can ensure the exceptional standard of the as installed Fytowall is maintained by
caring for it accordingly. The first year of a Fytowall’s life is it’s most important as the root
structure is further established and the Fytowall system settles with the pressures of the local
environment. With a soil-less growing medium and a fully automated irrigation and fertigation
system in place, the level of maintenance required on each installed Fytowall is usually
considered user friendly and manageable by the owner or managing agent.

(b) Operational Overview

Your Fytowall Vertical Wall Garden is controlled by an automatic fully integrated
irrigation system with a Web based reporting and control facility via GSM. The system
delivers water and the necessary nutrient levels on a daily basis to the garden to
maintain plant growth and health. It is essential that the system is fully operational at all
times and supplied with uninterrupted power and water to help ensure the overall
health of the garden. This system can be configured to issue diagnostic updates to the
mobile phones of the maintenance personnel. The Fytowall vertical wall garden installation
has 4 main categories of maintenance, namely host wall maintenance, general plant
maintenance, irrigation system maintenance and fertigation system maintenance.


(c) Host Wall & Surrounds Inspection / Maintenance

For any host wall structural / integrity inspection requirements we recommend that you contact
a structural engineer and have your host wall inspected at least once a year. Due to the
excellent design feature of the Fytowall, the only items in contact with the host wall are the
stainless steel hooked brackets. Therefore behind the growing panels is a 25mm gap / void
between the host wall and the growing module. This should be inspected monthly to be free of
obstruction and debris. Maintenance of the host wall structure should be in strict accordance
with the structural engineers requirements.




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