Dust/dirt speckles under vinyl

[Neil Davey]

Whenever possible I try and lay vinyl or prints onto board in a near vertical position. We have a 16′ long easel on one wall so this helps. Also get some Tak rags, body shops use them, to wipe down the surface just before application.

[Martin Pearson]

Tak rags will help as Neil suggested, might be worth looking at the area you use to apply vinyl as well to see if there is anyway you can cut down on dust particles. What sort of heating you use will make a difference, anything that blows warm air won’t help as it will carry airborne dust particles. Clothing you wear can make a difference as well. You really need a clean room environment to apply vinyl but unfortunately that’s an extremely expensive way of doing it :lol1: :lol1:

[Daniel Evans]

Thanks guys, unfortunately I do everything in one room so it’s very hard to keep it spotless, heating is just standard radiators but I’ll give those tak rags ago to see if that will improve things, I might also try doing more things upright as Neil suggested.

[David Rowland]

get rid of the carpet!

[Martin Pearson]

Like Dave says if you have a carpet in the room get rid of it & put in something like linoleum that’s easy to keep clean and doesn’t harbour dust like carpet does.
Do you need to do everything in the one room?? Now the better weather is on the way could you do some of the messy jobs either outside or in a garage?
Try & remove any protective coverings from media slowly to help prevent the build up of static & buy yourself something like a lab coat which will spread less dust.