Avery Dennison® Surface Cleaner – 2017 I was paying £32 for 6 bottles

[RobertLambie]

Avery Dennison® Surface Cleaner
You are spending £106 on a pack of six bottles to get a price of £17.66 for a One Litre Bottle

Why not buy a 25-litre drum of 99% isopropanol alcohol?
You will spend around £75 on twenty-five litres costing you the equivalent of only £3 for One Litre Bottle.
You will be paying around 70% less and getting 19 bottles more!

I often used every surface cleaner on the UKSG wrap training truck, why? because it was supplied to me for free. Initially, it was OK, it did the job but the truck was immaculate, so it hadn’t much cleaning to do. Initially, I was given a slightly darker green than you get today. I remember getting a new box that was now a lighter green. I instantly knew it was “weaker” because it couldn’t remove pen marks from the vehicle panels, which it could previously because we would occasionally put pen marks on them while training. After that, I just took my own Isopropynol onto the truck and stopped using the Avery.
Do not get me wrong, we still gave those being trained the Avery stuff, but that was more about the wrapping process and the fact we were using Avery Supreme but also Oracal 970.

I am interested to know why you choose to pay so much for a cleaning product, Pane?
I do understand that certain manufacturers stipulate that their cleaning fluids should be used in conjunction with their materials, Avery being one of them. But are you buying it solely for wrapping or recess work, or all vinyl applications, in general?

[Pane Talev]

“I am interested to know why you choose to pay so much for a cleaning product, Pane?”

Simple habit Robert. Works for me and I kept buying. Until I posted this and you answered.

Ordered some isopropyl alcohol last night. Thanks Robert!

[RobertLambie]

Good to hear, Pane. 👍
make sure whoever you are buying from is selling you pure 100% isopropanol and not a diluted weaker version. It is common to get much cheaper prices on the liquid but it is not as strong.

[Jamie Wood]

Metamark do 6 x 1 litre bottles of surface cleaner for £53.00 + VAT
http://www.metamark.co.uk

[Pane Talev]

Thanks Jamie

[Martyn]

I was using the exact same stuff and changed it last year.
Image perfect does their own version of the cleaner, but I also buy a 5 Litre container. So no bottles but it works out cheaper.
https://www.spandex.com

[Mark Johnston]

Ordered some isopropyl alcohol last night. Thanks Robert!

me too! 😎

[Chris Wilson]

We’re on the metamark to. Good bye Avery Green cleaner. Tried the image perfect. Wasn’t to impressed. Cheap. But not million miles off metamark price.

[Jeff]

looking at the prices, robs suggestion is a bit of a no brainer with those savings. am i missing something with the surface cleaner and metamarks cleaners? 🤨

[Leslie Anderson]

i am thinking the same jeff.
i have used it as well as some others. but it would be good to have one chemical that i use for pretty much all things.

L